{"id":931378,"date":"2025-05-16T11:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T05:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=931378"},"modified":"2025-05-16T11:00:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T05:30:33","slug":"y-combinator-to-court-googles-search-empire-is-a-monopoly-by-cheque-book-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/16\/y-combinator-to-court-googles-search-empire-is-a-monopoly-by-cheque-book-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Y Combinator to court: Google\u2019s search empire is a &#8216;monopoly by cheque book, not &#8230;&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Startup accelerator Y Combinator (YC) has labeled Google a &#8220;monopolist&#8221; that has &#8220;stunted&#8221; the US startup ecosystem in an amicus brief filed May 9 in the government&#8217;s ongoing antitrust case against the search giant.<\/p>\n<p>YC charged that Google has &#8220;chilled independent firms like YC from funding and accelerating innovative startups that could otherwise have challenged Google&#8217;s dominance,&#8221; creating what it calls a &#8220;kill zone&#8221; that deters venture capital investment in potential Google competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Startup accelerator Y Combinator (YC) has labeled Google a &#8220;monopolist&#8221; that has &#8220;stunted&#8221; the US startup ecosystem in an amicus brief filed May 9 in the government&#8217;s ongoing antitrust case against the search giant. YC charged that Google has &#8220;chilled independent firms like YC from funding and accelerating innovative startups that could otherwise have challenged Google&#8217;s dominance,&#8221; creating what it calls a &#8220;kill zone&#8221; that deters venture capital investment in potential Google competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}