{"id":18709,"date":"2025-05-03T08:38:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T06:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/us-asks-judge-to-break-up-googles-ad-tech-business-after-requesting-chrome-sale\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T08:38:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T06:38:31","slug":"us-asks-judge-to-break-up-googles-ad-tech-business-after-requesting-chrome-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/us-asks-judge-to-break-up-googles-ad-tech-business-after-requesting-chrome-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"US asks judge to break up Google\u2019s ad tech business after requesting Chrome sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Google lost its first monopoly trial, government asks it to sell off units of its core internet ads business<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/google\">Google<\/a> on Friday faced a demand by the US government to break up its hugely profitable ad technology business. The request came after a judge found the tech giant was commanding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/apr\/17\/google-illegal-monopoly-ad-tech\">an illegal monopoly<\/a> for the second time in less than a year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a defendant who has found ways to defy\u201d the law, US government lawyer Julia Tarver Wood told a federal court in Virginia, as she urged the judge to dismiss Google\u2019s assurance that it would change its behavior. \u201cLeaving a recidivist monopolist\u201d intact was not appropriate to solve the issue, she added.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/02\/google-ad-tech-monopoly\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/027e0ac28b167d1fcfc2f39b0590daf51e77423f\/0_183_5500_3300\/master\/5500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=19143796bb7ca55c7078d5921379be32\" title=\"US asks judge to break up Google\u2019s ad tech business after requesting Chrome sale\" \/>After Google lost its first monopoly trial, government asks it to sell off units of its core internet ads business<br \/>\nGoogle on Friday faced a demand by the US government to break up its hugely profitable ad technology business. The request came after a judge found the tech giant was commanding an illegal monopoly for the second time in less than a year.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have a defendant who has found ways to defy\u201d the law, US government lawyer Julia Tarver Wood told a federal court in Virginia, as she urged the judge to dismiss Google\u2019s assurance that it would change its behavior. \u201cLeaving a recidivist monopolist\u201d intact was not appropriate to solve the issue, she added. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Google lost its first monopoly trial, government asks it to sell off units of its core internet ads business Google on Friday faced a demand by the US government to break up its hugely profitable ad technology business. The request came after a judge found the tech giant was commanding an illegal monopoly for &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/us-asks-judge-to-break-up-googles-ad-tech-business-after-requesting-chrome-sale\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US asks judge to break up Google\u2019s ad tech business after requesting Chrome sale<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18710,"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\/18709"}],"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=18709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}