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How your online world could change if big tech companies like Google are forced to break up

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par Renaud Foucart, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University

The US Department of Justice may be on the verge of seeking a break-up of Google in a bid to make it less dominant. If the government goes ahead and is successful in the courts, it could mean the company being split into separate entities – a search engine, an advertising company, a video website, a mapping app – which would not be allowed to share data with each other.

While this is still a distant prospect, it is being considered in the wake of a series…

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