Judge Brinkema, presiding in Alexandria, Virginia, found that Google willfully acquired and maintained monopoly power in both the publisher ad server market and the ad exchange market. These ...

US District Judge Leonie Brinkema found on Thursday that the Alphabet Inc. unit violated antitrust law in the markets for advertising exchanges and tools used by websites to sell ad space, known as ad ...

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, found Google liable for "willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power" in markets for publisher ad servers and the market for ad ...

Brinkema wrote, "Although these acquisitions helped Google gain monopoly power in two adjacent ad tech markets, they are insufficient, when viewed in isolation, to prove that Google acquired or ...

One of the objectives of the trial was to establish evidence that Google had monopolized the markets for advertiser ad networks and publisher ad servers. The trial also aimed to illustrate Google’s ...

Google has previously explored selling off its ad exchange to appease European antitrust regulators. Alphabet's Google illegally dominated two markets for online advertising technology ...

In a landmark decision the US district judge has ruled that Google unlawfully monopolised key segments of the online advertising technology market ... into its ad tech ecosystem, in a way wielding ...

Alphabet's Google illegally dominated two markets for online advertising technology, a US judge has ruled, dealing another blow to the tech giant and paving the way for US antitrust prosecutors to ...

A trial begins Monday in Washington on a remedy after the company was found to monopolize the online search market. The Justice Department is seeking to force Alphabet to sell off its Chrome browser.

A US judge on Thursday ruled that Google wielded monopoly power in the online ad technology market in a blow that could rattle the tech giant's revenue engine. The federal government and more than a ...