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On Monday, the DOJ and Google both filed requests for remedying the tech giant’s legally declared ad-tech monopoly. The DOJ plan proposes having Google sell two major pieces of its business: its ...
In a letter, Senator Josh Hawley asks the DOJ to open a formal investigation into the autonomous truck company TuSimple Holdings, a Chinese-owned company that had operated in the U.S.
But the DOJ has been very clear about the remedies needed in the ad tech case, "asking Brinkema to order a divestment of Google’s Ad Manager suite of services, which is responsible for many of ...
The DOJ has argued that Google Ad Manager "serves 90 percent of publishers that use the ad tech tools to sell their online ad inventory," AdAge reported, and through it, Google clearly wields ...
The tech company has strongly objected to these remedies. Google maintains the DOJ's proposals are out of line with legal precedent and has suggested much lighter alternatives, saying that they ...
Technology DOJ Files Antitrust Suit Against RealPage, Maker of Rent-Setting Algorithm The lawsuit, which comes in the wake of a ProPublica investigation into the Texas company, accuses RealPage of ...
RealPage’s software reportedly manages more than 24 million rental units globally. The DOJ’s complaint accuses the Texas-based company of contracting with competing landlords who agree to ...
DOJ lawyers used a 32-page document to outline a framework of options for D.C. District Court Judge Amit Mehta to consider, including "behavioral and structural remedies that would prevent Google ...
Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for "Tech Bytes: Week in Review." ...
But it’s still the greatest antitrust threat a major tech company has faced in the US for decades — since Microsoft’s landmark loss over its PC operating system monopoly 25 years ago.