The Justice Department last week sought to persuade a federal judge in Virginia to force Alphabet Inc.’s Google to sell off part of the company and change the way it does business to improve ...

A judge queried lawyers about whether a breakup made sense during closing arguments on how to fix the tech giant’s dominance in online advertising. Judge Brinkema’s decision could restructure Google’s ...

The publisher-focused DOJ v. Google ad tech antitrust trial is finished. A judge will now decide the fate of Google’s sell-side ad tech business. On Friday, both sides presented their closing ...

Google is back in court, hoping to avoid a painful breakup of its advertising business. US District Judge Leonie Brinkema has already ruled that Google operated an illegal monopoly in digital ...

To divest, or not to divest. During day two of the remedies phase of the Department of Justice (DOJ)’s ad tech antitrust trial, both sides underwent a grueling back-and-forth about whether a ...

Google believes that the open web is already dying as the DOJ wants to break up Google’s ad empire. Google lost this court battle in 2023, and the remedies trial is coming in two weeks. Both the DOJ ...

The Justice Department and Google wrapped up a two-week hearing that could have a major effect on online advertising. By David McCabe Megan Mineiro Emmett Lindner and Cecilia Kang David McCabe, Megan ...