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A US Judge has ruled that Alphabet’s Google operates an illegal ad tech monopoly. The decision is a big win for prosecutors looking to break up Alphabet’s advertising products. JUST IN: Judge rules Google operates illegal ad monopoly. — Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) April 17, 2025 U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, ruled that Google unlawfully monopolized markets for publisher ad servers and the market for ad exchanges, which sit between buyers and sellers. Antitrust enforcers failed to show the company had a monopoly in advertising ad networks, the judge said Thursday. If it doesn’t sell its Google Chrome browser, Alphabet will already face several legal threats. The Department of Justice put in a request for Google to sell its browser, and a Washington Judge will hold a trial next week for the request. According to prosecutors, Google used classic monopoly-building tactics of eliminating competitors through acquisitions, locking customers into using its produ...

Latest data about Friend.tech, a decentralized social media platform, shows that it contributes over 20% of the average active addresses on Base, an Ethereum (ETH) layer-2 platform. Meanwhile, Dune data compiled by Tom Wan shows that in the last two weeks alone, automated bots have secured over 21,800 keys, earning $2.1 million in profits . These bots work by acquiring newly registered profiles cheaply before selling them at a higher price. One bot in particular, “0xcc218bbd21e14944fcc121d161c9b9ae71b9cc85,” acquired 96 profiles worth nearly 260 Ethereum (ETH), which would be worth roughly $600,000 in profits . Bots have generated over 500,000 transactions. Since launching on Aug. 10, Friend.tech, which allows users to acquire “shares” of individuals on X, formerly Twitter, has over 100,000 addresses. 101,183 people has given friend tech access to posting as them, leaked db indicateshttps://t.co/yYYDqzUoON — banteg (@bantg) August 21, 2023 Supplementar...