Google asks judge to dismiss most of Texas antitrust lawsuit
The Hindu
Google asked for four of the six counts to be dismissed with prejudice, which means that it could not be brought back to the same court.
Alphabet Inc's Google asked a federal judge on Friday to dismiss the majority of an antitrust lawsuit filed by Texas and other states that accused the search giant of abusing its dominance of the online advertising market.
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Google said in its court filing that the states failed to show that it illegally worked with Facebook, now Meta, to counter "header bidding," a technology that publishers developed to make more money from advertising placed on their websites. Facebook is not a defendant in the lawsuit.