{
  "id": 5136968,
  "title": "Judge rejects DOJ bid to split advertising business from Google",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/judge-rejects-doj-bid-to-split-advertising-business-from-google",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-02T17:26:38.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "AppleInsider",
    "slug": "appleinsider",
    "url": "https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/09/02/judge-rejects-doj-bid-to-split-advertising-business-from-google"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Google has yet again dodged a potentially business-splitting antitrust ruling, and gets to keep its ad-tech business intact after escaping the Department of Justice's push for a court-ordered breakup. Google does not need to sell off its advertising business, court finds A federal judge has rejected the Justice Department's attempt to force Google to sell off major pieces of its advertising…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Hacker News",
        "title": "Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/google-avoids-a-breakup-of-its-ad-tech-business",
        "published": "2026-09-02T14:46:16.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "A US federal judge rules that Google does not have to sell off its ad exchange and instead must make its ad tech tools work with those operated by rivals (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/a-us-federal-judge-rules-that-google-does-not-have-to-sell-off-its-ad",
        "published": "2026-09-02T14:50:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}