Google will not have to break up its advertising operations, a federal judge has ruled, though it will have to alter its business practices.
Leonie M. Brinkema, U.S. District Judge of the Eastern District of Virginia, handed down her decision Wednesday. The ruling, which remains under seal, comes after Brinkema concluded last year that the company had “willfully engaged in a series of anticompetitive acts to acquire and maintain monopoly power in the publisher ad server and ad exchange markets for open-web display advertising.”
The judge went on to say the company acted to preserve its “monopoly power
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