🗞️Google's illegal ad monopoly

...also Italian PM comes to the White House and mass shooting in Florida

April 17, 2025

April 17th, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

Judge rules Google illegally monopolized adtech, opening door to potential breakup  | TechCrunch

A federal judge has found that Google violated antitrust laws by “willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power” in the advertising technology

techcrunch.com/2025/04/17/judge-rules-google-illegally-monopolized-ad-tech-opening-door-to-potential-breakup

  • A federal judge has ruled that Google's ad business operates as an illegal monopoly, prosecutors could now look to break up Google's ad products by forcing a sale of Google Ad Manager

  • President Trump met with Italy’s Prime Minister Meloni at the White House, they discussed “many” things according to President Trump but the main purpose of the meeting was for Meloni to discuss trade and tariffs

  • Two people were killed and five others were injured in a shooting today at Florida State University…officers shot the suspected gunman, 20-year-old Phoenix Iknerwho, who is now hospitalized

  • OpenAI is in talks to acquire the coding assistant AI startup, Windsurf, for more than $3 billion

  • Shein and Temu, the Chinese low-cost retailers, have announced they will raise prices starting next week to adjust for tariffs and new global trade rules

  • 57% of financial advisors plan to increase their crypto allocations this year, per CoinDesk

  • About 1,500 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) workers were terminated from their positions

  • The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. rose to its highest level in two months to 6.83% up from 6.62% last week

  • DOW down 1.33% / S&P up .13%

  • Israel had planned to strike Iranian nuclear sites as soon as next month but it was called off by President Trump in favor of negotiating a deal with Iran to limit its nuclear program

  • Secretary of State Rubio and international envoy Witkoff held high level talks with Ukrainian and European officials in Paris to discuss Ukrainian security and ending the war

  • A massive blackout hit Puerto Rico leaving over half the people on the island without power

Plus: A look at the decline in Europeans traveling to the U.S. from 2024 to 2025

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