A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Google doesn’t need to break up its advertising technology business after it was found to be a monopoly, according to a new report from the New York Times.
The U.S. Department of Justice sued Google in 2023 under President Joe Biden’s tenure, which at the time argued that Google controlled the tech used by every major website publisher to offer ad space. Google also controlled the tool used by advertisers to buy that ad space and controlled the ad exchange that matches publishers to advertisers when that ad space is sold.
That seemed like an obvious monopoly that would need to be remedied by enforcing…
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