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Alphabet: court finds Google's publisher ad tools violated antitrust law

Filed Apr 18, 2025Original

An 8-K is the report a US listed company files within four business days of a material event.

What the company reported

  • On April 17, 2025, Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia issued a mixed decision in the DOJ's case.
  • She ruled the DOJ failed to show that Google's advertiser tools or its DoubleClick and AdMeld acquisitions were anticompetitive.
  • Google's publisher tools violated antitrust laws by excluding rivals; Google plans to appeal that portion.

Items reported

  • 8.01 Other events

The company's own filing, put into Korean. The numbers are the filing's.