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Google, Amazon Defend Home Device Business in Antitrust Hearing

Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Amazon.com Inc. defended their smart-speaker businesses as U.S. senators

Google, Amazon Defend Home Device Business in Antitrust Hearing

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