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An American judge has ruled that Google has illegally monopolized digital advertising markets, which paves the way for breaking the Internet Empire starting from Stanford University hostel about 27 years ago.
The platform of Google for advertisers is closely connected to the online search unit, a major driver of its $ 300 billion-year advertising business that has been an important focus for the last 2–1/2 decades.
Here there is a look at a few milestones in the history of Tech Giants, whose parents are now known as the alphabet:
Year incident
1995-1996 Larry Page and Sergei Brin meet at Stanford University and create a search engine called Backbrab.
1998 Startup, now named Google, gets $ 100,000 in funding from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
1999 Google, in its first press release, announced $ 25 million in funding from Sex Capital and Clener Perkins, and officially announced the term “Googlers” for the world.
June 2000 Google becomes a default search engine provider for Yahoo, one of the most popular websites at that time.
october Adwords launches, online advertising platforms that will become a core for Google’s business.
2001 Eric Schmid has been nominated as Chief Executive Officer of Google and Chairman of the Board of Directors.
April 2004 Google announced that it is testing the release of Gmail, with up to 1GB storage capacity.
August 2004 At an initial price of $ 85 per share, the initial public offer of about 19.6 million shares launchs.
February 2005 Google launches map for desktop.
August 2005 Mobile startups get Android. Google Launch Talk Instant Messaging Service.
2006 The online video service for $ 1.65 billion purchases YouTube.
April 2007 The web advertisement for $ 3.1 billion announces the acquisition of supplier doubleclic.
May 2007 Introduce universal discovery that allows users to reach the search results at once, such as pictures, videos, and news, at one time.
September First Android phone, T-Mobile G1 or HTC Dream Debut.
2008 Google Chrome launches web browser.
January The co-developed smartphone with HTC launches Nexus One,.
March 2010 The search results in China stops sensoring, causing restrictions in the country.
october Google tests its first self-driving vehicles with a small fleet of Toyota Priyas cars in California.
June 2011 Google+ launches social networking service, which was shut down in 2018.
August 2011 Motorola announces the acquisition of mobility, including Motorola’s cellphone and TV set-top box business for $ 12.5 billion.
2012 Google launchs glass.
2013 The Israeli mapping startup for about 1 billion dollars announces the acquisition of the veg.
2014 In January, it announces that the AI firm will acquire Deepmind. In the same month, announced a $ 3.2 billion deal to buy Smart Thermostat and Smoke alarm maker Nest Labs.
2015 A new publicly listed company announces a plan to create an alphabet, which will give home to Google and other units, including YouTube and research and venture capital business. Sundar Pichai named CEO of Google.
october 2016 The first pixel launch smartphones.
november Google Home Smart Speaker launches.
June 2017 The European Commission fined Google 2.42 billion euros for violating its neutrality of its discovery.
february 2018 Google reports selling more than $ 100 billion per year for the first time.
July 2018 The European Commission fined Google 4.34 billion euros for anti-competitive practices in relation to its Android operating system.
March 2019 The European Commission imposes 1.49 billion euros for competitive practices in relation to the company’s online advertising business.
June 2019 Google announced the acquisition of analytics startup Lukar for $ 2.6 billion.
november Announces the acquisition of fitbit for $ 2.1 billion.
December Co-founder Page and Brin announced that they were stepping as CEOs and Chairman respectively; Pichai becomes the CEO of the alphabet.
2020 The alphabet hits $ 1 trillion in market capitalization.
January 2023 The company cuts 12,000 jobs, or 6% workforce.
February 2023 Google announced the Bard, which is a common AI-managed chatbot that can produce text material and get information from the Internet. However, a factual error in shares of Demo Tanksalfbet of AI Tool is at a distance of $ 100 billion from the company’s market capitalization.
One of the first employees of Google, Susan Wojcicki, moves as the CEO of YouTube; Neil Mohan replaced her.
March 2023 Starts rolling Bard for some users.
June 2023 European Union regulators say Google may have to sell part of their adtech business to solve concerns about competitive practices
September 2023 A coalition by the US Department of Justice and the Attorney General of the state began a blockbuster antitrust test in Washington, alleging that Google misused its dominance in the search market to maintain monopoly power.
November 2023 Google launched American testing with epic games on claims of violation of federal mistrust law
December 2023 Google launched her most powerful liberal AI model, Mithun at that time
January 2024 Samsung says
february 2024Google’s flag increased spending on server for data centers, outlining its heavy investment for Power AI which will later increase investor concerns
February 2024 Google renamed her Bard Chatbot after Gemini model
February 2024 Nvidia snatches Goggle’s location as the third most valuable American company, underlining AI shift in Big Tech
February 2024 Google releases the open source “Jemma” model following the footsteps of its AI competitive meta platforms
February 2024Google prevents its AI tool that creates images of people, follows inaccurate in some historical illustrations generated by the model, first weeks after offering service
February 2024 Thirty-two media groups, including Axle Springer and Shibustad, hit Google with a trial of A2.1-Billion-Euro ($ 2.3 billion), alleging that they were damaged due to its digital advertising practices
March 2024 An American Judge Rule is that Google should face the proposed class action trial of advertisers, claiming that this advertisement monopoly on the exchange market
March 2024 The European Union Antittens Open its first investigation under the Digital Markets Act for possible violations of the technical rules of the European Union in Google, Apple, Meta.
April 2024 Google sued American artists on AI image generator
April 2024 The alphabet declares the first dividend
June 2024 Google name anat ashkenazi cfo
October 2024 Google converts Gemini app team into deepmind
November 2024 Google must sell Chrome to restore competition in online search, doj argues
November 2024 Meta will have to face antitrust trial, WhatsApp acquisition on Instagram
March 2025 Google is part of American shareholder class action on google digital advertising practices and user privacy security
March 2025 The alphabet signs its biggest deal so far, to buy cyber security startup for $ 32 billion
March 2025 The US has bid Google to sell AI investment in an antitrust case
April 2025 Google faced 5 billion pounds of UK trial for allegedly misbehaving in online search
April 2025 The American judge said that Google’s advertising technology has illegal monopoly, which paves the way to the antitrust prosecutors for us to look for a breakup of our advertising products.
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