What Happens if Alphabet Breaks Up?

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🗓️ 14 August 2024

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Here’s why investors could win. (00:21) Tim Beyers and Mary Long discuss the lawsuit against Google, the likelihood of a big tech breakup, and consolidation in the snacking sector. Then, (14:29) Jason Hall and Ricky Mulvey check in on some solar power stocks. Learn more about the Range Rover Sport at www.landorverusa.com Companies discussed: GOOG, GOOGL, K, ENPH, SEDG Host: Mary Long Guests: Tim Beyers, Jason Hall, Ricky Mulvey Engineer: Dan Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We've got breakup rumors and tales of courtship. You're listening to Motley Full Money. I'm Mary Long joined live in Denver today with Mr. Tim Byers. Tim
0:25.0	Thanks for being here. Good to see you too Mary. Fully caffeinated ready to go.
0:29.4	Fully caffeinated, ready to go in person from the Creative Density Podcast Studio.
0:34.5	We love to see it.
0:35.8	Tim, today we've got two different stories about companies having different, defining the
0:40.6	relationship type talks.
0:42.0	Earlier this month, a U.S. District Court judge in DC
0:44.8	ruled that the $26 billion
0:47.4	Google had paid to make its search engine the default option on smartphones
0:51.7	was anti-competitive.
0:53.6	And yesterday, Bloomberg reported that the Justice Department is now in talks
0:57.4	about whether to break up the search giant.
1:00.2	Before we go any further and kind of talk about implications of this,
1:03.2	there are a number of complaints against Google and other big tech companies
1:07.4	that are moving through the Justice Department right now.
1:09.8	Which case is this one?
1:11.0	I mean it's by far the top. Which case is this one?
1:12.9	I mean, it's by far the top case, is it not?
1:16.7	There are very few times in history
1:19.2	that we have seriously considered
1:21.6	whether or not a corporation should be broken up.
1:24.8	Standard Oil is, what, a hundred years ago now, over a hundred years ago.
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