{"id":959554,"date":"2025-09-05T11:01:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=959554"},"modified":"2025-09-05T11:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:31:41","slug":"google-avoids-a-painful-breakup-how-googlers-celebrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/05\/google-avoids-a-painful-breakup-how-googlers-celebrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Google avoids a \u2018painful breakup\u2019: How Googlers celebrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google employees erupted in celebration Tuesday after a federal judge ruled the tech giant could keep its Chrome browser, avoiding what could have been a devastating corporate breakup. The decision sent Google\u2019s stock soaring more than 6% in after-hours trading while employees flooded internal message boards with memes and jokes. US District Judge Amit Mehta handed down antitrust penalties against Google after previously ruling its search business operates as an illegal monopoly. The Justice Department had pushed for forcing Google to sell Chrome, but Mehta rejected this proposal along with other more aggressive remedies in the landmark case.<\/p>\n<p>Memes and jokes flood Google\u2019s internal channels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google employees erupted in celebration Tuesday after a federal judge ruled the tech giant could keep its Chrome browser, avoiding what could have been a devastating corporate breakup. The decision sent Google\u2019s stock soaring more than 6% in after-hours trading while employees flooded internal message boards with memes and jokes. US District Judge Amit Mehta handed down antitrust penalties against Google after previously ruling its search business operates as an illegal monopoly. The Justice Department had pushed for forcing Google to sell Chrome, but Mehta rejected this proposal along with other more aggressive remedies in the landmark case. Memes and [&hellip;]<\/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-959554","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\/959554","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=959554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}