How Google Defended Itself in the Ad Tech Antitrust Trial

Over the past week, Google has called more than a dozen witnesses to defend itself against claims by the Justice Department and a group of state attorneys general that it has a monopoly in advertising software that places ads on web pages, part of a second major federal antitrust trial against the tech giant.
Google’s lawyers wrapped up their arguments in the case on Friday, after which the government offered a short rebuttal. Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, who is presiding over the nonjury trial, is expected to deliver a ruling in the coming months, after both sides summarize their cases in writing and deliver closing arguments on Nov. 25.

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