Google readies EU offer after $3.5 billion fine, skips full splitThe offer, due by early November, will avoid a complete sale of Google’s Ad Manager — the AdX exchange and DoubleClick for Publishers — acc...
19 Sep, 2025, 06.18 PM IST
Google ad tech sale offer fell far short of breakup DOJ seeksThe agency and Google are set to face-off in a two-week hearing starting next week about whether the company must sell off parts of its bus...
15 Sep, 2025, 10.29 PM IST
Google sued by advertising exchange over monopoly violationsThe lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Virginia, is the second by an advertising exchange to take aim at the tech giant since a fede...
09 Sep, 2025, 10.15 AM IST
Google set to face modest EU antitrust fine in adtech investigation, sources sayThe decision by the European Commission follows a four-year long investigation triggered by a complaint from the European Publishers Counci...
30 Aug, 2025, 04.19 PM IST
US seeks breakup of Google's ad-tech products after judge finds illegal monopolyFollowing a court ruling that Google illegally dominated online ad-tech markets, the U.S. Department of Justice has proposed that Google di...
06 May, 2025, 12.07 PM IST
Google offered to sell part of ad tech business, not enough for EU publishersGoogle's offer to sell its AdX advertising marketplace to end an EU antitrust investigation was rejected by European publishers as insuffic...
19 Sep, 2024, 08.08 AM IST
Google offered to sell advertising marketplace AdX in EU antitrust probeThe European Commission last year charged Google with favouring its own advertising services, opening its fourth case against the world's m...
18 Sep, 2024, 10.03 PM IST
Google knew publishers would dislike ad tech change that helped it profitThe Justice Department showed emails and documents where Google employees discussed the company losing revenue because publishers were usin...
14 Sep, 2024, 04.31 PM IST
UK watchdog accuses Google of anti-competitive behaviour in digital ads businessBritain's Competition and Markets Authority said that the US company gives preference to its own services to the detriment of online publis...
07 Sep, 2024, 10.23 AM IST
Google abusing power over website ads, UK regulator saysThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it believed Google was using anti-competitive practices in open display ad tech through th...
06 Sep, 2024, 04.16 PM IST
ADIF moves CCI against Google’s ‘anti-competitive practices’ in online advertisingGoogle's dominance over major online platforms and its reliance on advertising for the majority of its revenue hinders competition and nega...
05 Aug, 2024, 04.33 PM IST
US judge says Google must face some advertisers' antitrust claims, dismisses othersGoogle must face a proposed class action lawsuit alleging it monopolizes the ad exchange market. The U.S. Justice Department sued Google fo...
02 Mar, 2024, 11.02 AM IST
Google’s ad tech in peril as EU joins US’s breakup bandwagonThe European Commission last week joined the Department of Justice in touting a breakup as a viable remedy for the California-based tech gi...
22 Jun, 2023, 11.10 PM IST
Google faces EU break-up order over anti-competitive adtech practicesAlphabet's Google may have to sell part of its lucrative adtech business to address concerns about anti-competitive practices, EU regulator...
15 Jun, 2023, 07.18 AM IST
EU says Google abused dominant positions in online adsGoogle issued an immediate statement with its vice president for global ads, Dan Taylor, saying "we disagree" with the commission's announc...
14 Jun, 2023, 05.38 PM IST
US sues Google on digital ad business dominance, joined by eight states"Google has used anticompetitive, exclusionary, and unlawful means to eliminate or severely diminish any threat to its dominance over digit...
25 Jan, 2023, 07.31 AM IST
Google to change global ad practices after French watchdog imposes fineThe settlement which also saw Google fined $268 million, is the first time the U.S. tech giant has agreed to make changes to its huge adver...
07 Jun, 2021, 08.33 PM IST