Google can be sued for advertising monopoly, rules US judge

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia: US District Judge Leonie Brinkema has rejected Google's motion to scrap an antitrust case that claimed it had monopolistic power in selling online advertising, allowing the case to proceed.

The lawsuit alleges that Google had "corrupted legitimate competition in the ad tech industry by engaging in a systematic campaign to seize control of the wide swath of high-tech tools used by publishers