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As Potential Federal Probes Loom, Google Faces Smaller Antitrust Suits

It's being hit by a smattering of lawsuits taking aim at its ad stack

Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai may soon face questions from some of the highest authorities in the U.S.Getty Images
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By Ethan Wu

June 24, 2020

A suit filed this week in a San Jose district court alleges Google violated the Clayton Act by leveraging its market power to charge inflated prices for digital ads.

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Ethan Wu

Ethan Wu reports on ad tech and programmatic advertising for Adweek.

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