Analysis-Google faces greater threat of forced ad unit sale from U.S. lawsuit
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The U.S. government is more likely to force Google to divest a key business with an antitrust lawsuit it filed this week than a group of states that has pursued a similar case for three years, legal experts said. The complaint filed Tuesday in a Virginia federal court by the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division attempts to compel Google to sell part of its advertising technology unit. Both suits accuse the Alphabet Inc-owned company of abusing its dominance in online advertising, whic...
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