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A federal judge in Virginia declined to order Google to sell AdX, handing the DOJ its second straight loss in efforts to break up the tech giant
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Google $GOOGL escaped a forced sale of its online advertising exchange on Wednesday, after U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, rejected the Department of Justice's bid to make the company divest AdX.
Judge Brinkema declined to order Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet, to sell AdX, the exchange where publishers pay a 20% fee to sell ads in auctions that run in real time as users load websites. She accepted most of the behavioral remedies proposed by the parties instead.
