Brown described how advertising used to be, and how in the dark occasionally overserved ad buyers once were. Ad purchases ...

Two officials were ousted from the Justice Department's antitrust division, following tension in a key office that fights ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a suggestion to Judge Amit Mehta to force Google to sell Chrome. The DOJ sees that move as a step in the right direction to curb Google’s search monopoly.

Google didn't lose every battle in this big fight with the DOJ. Mehta ruled that Google did not have monopoly power in search advertising, agreed that there was no market for general search ...

Google alleged that Jonathan Kanter, the Justice Department’s antitrust chief, is biased because of his earlier work in private practice representing Microsoft, News Corp. and Yelp.

Google also accused Kanter in the filing of surrounding himself at DOJ with others who may have a bias against the company, including the Stanford economist and artificial intelligence expert ...

Google said in previous filings that the DOJ has demonstrated maximum damages of less than $1 million during the discovery process. Since the law allows the court to issue treble damages ...

The DOJ is also calling on Judge Mehta to prevent Google from establishing similar exclusive distribution agreements for its AI programs and apps, like its Gemini chatbot, Dahlquist said Monday.

On Monday, the US Department of Justice's next monopoly trial against Google started in Virginia—this time challenging the tech giant's ad tech dominance. "One monopoly is bad enough," Wood said ...

The Justice Department has argued that Google relied on billions in payments to partners — including $26.3 billion in 2021 alone — to ensure its search engine was enabled by default on most ...

Prosecutors allege Google used its search engine’s monolithic popularity to illegally throttle competition. But the DOJ case has implications on the company’s broader ambitions.