Google asks decide to dismiss DOJ’s lawsuit claiming digital-ad monopoly

“Within the greater than three years that it has been investigating Google’s advert tech enterprise, america has obtained greater than 2 million paperwork from Google and brought over 30 depositions of Google witnesses,” the tech big mentioned in a courtroom submitting. “But plaintiffs stay unable to seek out help for his or her claimed antitrust harms.”

In a single instance, Google mentioned that whereas the federal government claims its advert tech enterprise controls “greater than 50%” of the market, 70% is required to show a monopoly.

Google didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

The Justice Division sued Google in January, alleging its dominant digital-advertising enterprise was a monopoly and calling for its ad-tech enterprise to be damaged up. The lawsuit included eight states as plaintiffs, together with California, New York, New Jersey and Virginia.

“Having inserted itself into all features of the digital promoting market, Google has used anticompetitive, exclusionary, and illegal means to remove or severely diminish any menace to its dominance over digital promoting applied sciences,” the DOJ alleged in its criticism.

Google maintains that it isn’t a monopoly, and faces stiff competitors from Fb mother or father Meta Platforms Inc.
META,
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Amazon.com Inc.
AMZN,
-0.09%,
Comcast Corp.
CMCSA,
+1.34%
and others.

The lawsuit is the second federal antitrust criticism towards Google. In 2020, the Justice Division sued Google for an alleged monopoly in search. The case is scheduled to go to trial in September.

Alphabet shares have gained about 16% yr so far, however are down about 27% over the previous 12 months, in comparison with the S&P 500’s
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3.6% achieve in 2023 and 13% decline over the previous yr.

MarketWatch reported Jon Swartz contributed to this report.