Google and Apple now threatened by the US antitrust laws helped build their technology empires

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FILE - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, left, and president and CEO Steve Ballmer speak at a news conference on April 3, 2000 in Redmond, Wash. The U.S. Justice Department's double-barreled antitrust attack on Google's dominant search and Apple's trendsetting iPhone is reviving memories of another epic battle that hobbled Microsoft before it roared back to yet again become the world's most valuable company. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)