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Google announced in January that it will layoff about 12,000 employees, or 6% of the company’s workforce. The departments that have been impacted by the layoff included Google Cloud, Chrome to Android, strategy, recruiting, go-to-market teams and the company's in-house research and development (R&D) division called Area 120, reports said.Google parent Alphabet asked a US federal judge on Monday to dismiss a Justice Department lawsuit alleging that the search giant illegally abused its dominance of online advertising.…

Photo: Leon Neal / Staff (Getty Images)On Tuesday, the US Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google. Joined by eight state attorneys general, the federal government said the tech giant is running an illegal monopoly in the digital ad market, and it wants the courts to compel Google to sell its subsidiary ad businesses, breaking the company into several less hazardous pieces. “For 15 years, Google has pursued a course of anti-competitive conduct that has allowed it to halt the rise of rival…

Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Google Tuesday, accusing the tech giant of using its market power to create a monopoly in the digital advertising business over the course of 15 years.Google “corrupted legitimate competition in the ad tech industry by engaging in a systematic campaign to seize control of the wide swath of high-tech tools used by publishers, advertisers and brokers, to facilitate digital advertising,” the Justice Department alleges. Eight state…