Google Takes Questions Over Ads as US Trial Comes to a Close
-- Judge Amit Mehta presided over two days of closing arguments, concluding on Friday, in the US antitrust challenge to Alphabet Inc. Now he’ll head off for weeks or months to consider a ruling that could have significant consequences across the tech industry.Everything Apple Plans to Show at May 7 ‘Let Loose’iPad Event. Saudi Arabia Steps Up Arrests Of Those Attacking Israel Online. Apple Rallies Most in 18 Months on Upbeat Forecast, Buyback. Trump Auditions VP Picks Before Wealthy Donors in Palm Beach. Huawei Secretly Backs US Research, Awarding Millions in Prizes. In its defense, Google argued that search ads are just one avenue for advertisers to reach consumers and that it’s losing business to Amazon.com Inc. and ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok.“Google kept advertisers in the dark as to how search advertising works and how their advertising dollars were spent,” Dahlquist said. “Only a monopolist can make a product worse, and sti