For months, a dark cloud hung over shares of Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) after a federal judge declared its Google search engine business an illegal monopoly. Investors were left waiting for the penalties associated with the court ruling.After Alphabet lost the antitrust lawsuit against its Google search engine last year, investors were concerned the presiding judge would impose remedies that could hurt the company’s future growth. The U.S. Justice Department sought penalties as far-ranging as selling off Alphabet’s Android mobile operating system but that won’t happen.Instead, the judge ruled Alphabet will be subject to restrictions that are unlikely to dramatically alter its business. These include prohibiting it from entering into exclusive agreements with partners, such as Apple and Samsung Electronics, which made Google products the default in their offerings. What is your take on Anti-trust laws on technology?
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