@rohanpaul_ai: Big win for Google. Avoided selling AdX business and preserved its ad-tech stack. Every structural remedy sought by the…
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Google avoided selling its AdX business and preserved its ad-tech stack after Judge Leonie Brinkema rejected all structural remedies sought by the government in a legal case.
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Big win for Google. Avoided selling AdX business and preserved its ad-tech stack.
Every structural remedy sought by the government was rejected by Judge Leonie Brinkema.
The judge rejected selling AdX, open-sourcing DFP’s final auction logic and a contingent DFP divestiture. https://t.co/tzdrSlkNJn
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