Google aims to dodge breakup of ad business as antitrust trial wraps

Alphabet’s Google will make its final plea to avoid a breakup of its advertising technology business in a U.S. court on Friday, as the Department of Justice’s antitrust case draws to a close.

Google has so far come away largely unscathed from a bipartisan government legal crackdown on the dominance of Big Tech – a push that began during the first term of President Donald Trump.

But that could change, depending on what U.S. District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, decides.