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Owned by John D. Rockefeller, what oil company was famously broken into 34 separate entities?
The 1911 Supreme Court ruling under the Sherman Antitrust Act dissolved Standard Oil into 34 companies, including precursors to Exxon, Mobil, and Chevron, curbing its monopoly on U.S. oil refining.
Centering on the bundling of Internet Explorer, a major 1990s antitrust case targeted what tech giant?
The United States v. Microsoft antitrust case, filed in 1998, accused the company of illegally bundling Internet Explorer with Windows to stifle competition from Netscape Navigator.
Passed in 1890 to curb monopolies, what legislation forms the basis of U.S. federal antitrust law?
The Sherman Act of 1890 prohibits monopolies and restraints of trade, targeting trusts like Standard Oil that dominated industries in the late 19th century.
Resulting in the creation of 7 regional "Baby Bells," a historic breakup reorganized what telephone monopoly?
In 1984, a U.S. court-ordered divestiture ended AT&T's monopoly on local phone service, creating seven regional "Baby Bells" to promote competition while AT&T retained long-distance operations.
Paying to be the default choice on smartphones, what search engine was ruled an illegal monopoly in 2024?
Google paid Apple $20 billion in 2022 to stay the default search engine on iPhones, a key factor in the U.S. judge's August 2024 ruling that it illegally monopolized the search market.