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The Justice Department and eight states sued Google on Tuesday, accusing the company of harming competition with its dominance in the online advertising market and calling for it to be broken up.
The DOJ and multiple states have alleged in the ad-tech case that Google gobbled up rivals through anticompetitive mergers and bullied publishers and advertisers into using the company’s ...
The government has a problem with Google's position in "ad tech," or the tools used to automatically match advertisers with website publishers. To solve it, apparently, the DOJ has told Google it ...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Google wrapped up the tech giant’s second antitrust trial in two years Monday, as the company seeks to fend off monopoly allegations in the advertising ...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed its second lawsuit against Google this week, highlighting the ongoing bipartisan angst from regulators and lawmakers against tech giants. The Biden ...
According to The New York Times, the "ad-tech division generated $31 billion last year for Alphabet, Google’s parent company, or 10 percent of its sales." So while it's not search empire money ...
On Monday, the DOJ and Google both filed requests for remedying the tech giant’s legally declared ad-tech monopoly. The DOJ plan proposes having Google sell two major pieces of its business: its ...
A Virginia-based tech company will pay thousands of dollars in fines for a job posting that requested “whites only” to apply. The Justice and Labor departments have fined minority-owned ...
In Elon Musk’s latest legal quandary, X – the rebranded social media company formerly known as Twitter – has been fined $350,000 for failing to hand over Donald Trump’s Twitter data to the ...
The tech company has strongly objected to these remedies. Google maintains the DOJ's proposals are out of line with legal precedent and has suggested much lighter alternatives, saying that they ...
Tech stocks Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co (NYSE:HPE) and Juniper Networks Inc (NYSE:JNPR) are both rallying this morning, after the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) settled its lawsuit challenging ...
By Brian Fung, CNN Washington (CNN) — A blockbuster lawsuit by the US government against Google’s ad business will go to trial in September, according to a federal judge. The trial is ...