{"id":1032846,"date":"2026-09-03T07:20:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032846"},"modified":"2026-09-03T07:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:55:58","slug":"google-defeats-us-bid-to-force-ad-tech-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/03\/google-defeats-us-bid-to-force-ad-tech-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Google defeats US bid to force ad tech sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet&#8217;s Google escaped a breakup of its advertising technology business on Wednesday, when a judge \u200bin Virginia rejected U.S. antitrust enforcers&#8217; bid \u200bto force a sale of Google&#8217;s online advertising exchange. <\/p>\n<p>While the ad exchange is a \u200bsmall part of Google&#8217;s business, the ruling is the second powerful symbolic victory against the U.S. Department of Justice in its efforts to force Google to sell assets to address illegal monopolies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet&#8217;s Google escaped a breakup of its advertising technology business on Wednesday, when a judge \u200bin Virginia rejected U.S. antitrust enforcers&#8217; bid \u200bto force a sale of Google&#8217;s online advertising exchange. While the ad exchange is a \u200bsmall part of Google&#8217;s business, the ruling is the second powerful symbolic victory against the U.S. Department of Justice in its efforts to force Google to sell assets to address illegal monopolies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032871,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032846\/revisions\/1032871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}