Connect with us

Hi, what are you looking for?

Contribution AmericansContribution Americans

Tech News

Why Google is back in court for another monopoly showdown

A photo illustration of the Google Ads logo.
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images

Today on Decoder, we’re talking about the big Google antitrust trial that’s currently taking place in a federal courthouse. No, not the one you’re thinking of — it’s the second Google antitrust case in just as many months. The company lost a landmark case in August in which a court ruled that it had an illegal monopoly in search.

This time around, the Department of Justice is claiming Google has another illegal monopoly in the online advertising market.

Unlike the search case, the ads case is both extremely complicated and somewhat harder to see. We all use search all day, and we’re surrounded by online ads all day, but while it’s easy to talk about search, no one really wants to think about how the ads get there or how much they really…

Continue reading…

You May Also Like

Editor's Pick

On this week’s edition of StockCharts TV‘s StockCharts in Focus, Grayson discusses the most important chart on all of StockCharts – your default ChartStyle! In addition...

Tech News

Image: the Internet Archive The Internet Archive is back online in a read-only state after a cyberattack brought down the digital library and Wayback...

Editor's Pick

When the market is down, you can see which stocks Wall Street may be pumping money into. So on a Monday morning when the...

Editor's Pick

There are times when the price action of a stock is worth analyzing further. This article is a follow-up to last week’s StockCharts Technical...