Google proposed a number of changes in the ”¬2.95B EU antitrust fine over its ad technology.
Raptive, an advertising-sales company representing thousands of websites (content publishers), filed a 93-page complaint against Google in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The suit says “Google has carried out a sophisticated, anticompetitive, and deceptive scheme for well over a decade” by “manipulating auctions for ad space across the Internet.”
Both Google and Microsoft reported its earnings today; Alphabet’s Q3 2025 earnings and Microsoft’s Q1 2026 earnings. Google reported ad revenues up by 13% with $74 billion and Microsoft reported ad revenues up by 16%.
Penske Media, which operates and owns Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Variety and others has sued Google over its AI Overviews.
Bloomberg reports that the Federal Trade Commission is investigating Google (and Amazon) on whether the companies misled advertisers by not properly disclosing the terms and pricing for ads on their websites.
The European Union has fined Google $3.5 billion, 2.95 billion euro, for breaking its competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services. Part of this ruling also says Google is required to divest part of its ad-tech business.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled on the remedies for Google being declared a monopoly
Google reported Q2 2025 earnings today, which showed Google’s ad revenue was up again year-over-year, with an increase of 10.4%, and overall revenue is also up 13.8%.
Just when you thought the layoffs were over (remember January 2023), Google is offering a buyout program across search and ad units, including knowledge and information and central engineering units as well as marketing, research and communications teams, CNBC has reported.
Jerry Dischler, the almost 20 year Google executive, is reportedly leaving Google a year and a half after he stepped down from that position. Jerry Dischler was involved in a lot of the Department of Justice negativity around Google’s ad business, which may or may not be related to him stepping down in 2023 and now reportedly leaving Google in 2025.