US antitrust lawmakers question Google over its online advertising dominance

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Hearing comes a month after US Congress House Antitrust Subcommittee grilled chief executives of Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon

In a US Senate antitrust panel hearing on Tuesday, senators grilled a Google executive over the company's dominance in the online ad market, questioning whether the firm had misused its power to dr...

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