{"id":18547,"date":"2025-04-17T17:37:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/google-illegally-monopolized-online-advertising-markets-us-judge-rules\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T17:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:37:34","slug":"google-illegally-monopolized-online-advertising-markets-us-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/google-illegally-monopolized-online-advertising-markets-us-judge-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Google illegally monopolized online advertising markets, US judge rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal judge deals blow to tech giant and paves way for government to break up company\u2019s advertising products<\/p>\n<p>Alphabet\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/google+technology\">Google<\/a> illegally dominated two markets for online advertising technology, a judge ruled on Thursday, dealing another blow to the tech giant and paving the way for US antitrust prosecutors to seek a breakup of its advertising products.<\/p>\n<p>The US district judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, found Google liable for \u201cwillfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power\u201d in markets for publisher ad servers and the market for ad exchanges which sit between buyers and sellers. Publisher ad servers are platforms used by websites to store and manage their ad inventory. Antitrust enforcers failed to prove a separate claim that the company had a monopoly in advertiser ad networks, she wrote.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/apr\/17\/google-illegal-monopoly-ad-tech\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a1b4a40e25e43354547d43aae9fa7d1c51504210\/0_132_4000_2401\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1b5a7a9d99a61894e0e3161d273364fc\" title=\"Google illegally monopolized online advertising markets, US judge rules\" \/>Federal judge deals blow to tech giant and paves way for government to break up company\u2019s advertising products<br \/>\nAlphabet\u2019s Google illegally dominated two markets for online advertising technology, a judge ruled on Thursday, dealing another blow to the tech giant and paving the way for US antitrust prosecutors to seek a breakup of its advertising products.<br \/>\nThe US district judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, found Google liable for \u201cwillfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power\u201d in markets for publisher ad servers and the market for ad exchanges which sit between buyers and sellers. Publisher ad servers are platforms used by websites to store and manage their ad inventory. Antitrust enforcers failed to prove a separate claim that the company had a monopoly in advertiser ad networks, she wrote. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal judge deals blow to tech giant and paves way for government to break up company\u2019s advertising products Alphabet\u2019s Google illegally dominated two markets for online advertising technology, a judge ruled on Thursday, dealing another blow to the tech giant and paving the way for US antitrust prosecutors to seek a breakup of its advertising &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/google-illegally-monopolized-online-advertising-markets-us-judge-rules\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google illegally monopolized online advertising markets, US judge rules<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18547"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}