US court rejects breakup of Google ad business

A US federal court on Wednesday rejected the Justice Department's request to force Google to divest its internet advertising business, in an antitrust lawsuit. The ruling denies the government's proposed structural remedy against the tech giant. The decision comes in a case where the DOJ argued Google illegally monopolized the online ad market. The court's order blocks the breakup, though details of the ruling's reasoning were not immediately disclosed in the brief report. The case is part of broader US efforts to regulate major tech companies' market power. Google had faced similar antitrust challenges over its search business, with this ad-related suit being a separate legal front.