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Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook are "too powerful", House Judiciary Antitrust subcommittee chair David Cicilline says while opening an unprecedented hearing featuring the CEOs of the four giants. SOUNDBITE
Lawyers for Google arrive at court in Alexandria, Virginia, for an antitrust trial. The company faces its second major antitrust trial in less than a year, with the US government accusing the tech giant of dominating online advertising and stifling competition. IMAGES
Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division, arrives at a court in Washington, DC, where a landmark case pitting the US government against Google over the dominance of the company's world-dominating search engine begins. IMAGES
The United States is suing Google for its dominance of the online advertising market, announces Attorney General Merrick Garland from the US Justice Department in Washington, DC. "We allege that Google has used anticompetitive, exclusionary, and unlawful conduct to eliminate or severely diminish any threat to its dominance over digital advertising technologies," he tells a press conference. SOUNDBITE
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden vows action on "day one" to halt the spiraling Covid-19 crisis. "We can't save any of the lives lost," says Biden, "but we can save a lot of lives in the months ahead." SOUNDBITE