I am no fan of Google. But forcing the company to sell off Chrome – which is exactly what the government aims to do in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit – threatens to break the open Internet far more than ...

Is the open internet in trouble? Open programmatic ad spend has only grown 3% since 2021, according to equity research firm Wolfe Research. Walled gardens have grown 10% in the same time frame. This ...

For almost 30 years, the open internet has been taken for granted: anyone can publish content, anyone can find it. And of all companies, Google, the corporation that grew big by making this open ...

The doomers have it wrong. AI is not going to end the world—but it is going to end the web as we’ve known it. AI is already upending the economic covenant of the internet that’s existed since the ...

Is the web thriving or faltering? Google has an unexpected take in a new legal filing. Google is heading back to court soon in hopes of convincing a judge that it should not have to split up its ad ...

The internet giant was ordered by a federal judge to make a series of changes to address its anticompetitive conduct. By Nico Grant Reporting from San Francisco In December, a federal jury in San ...

Green's core thesis rests on a macro dynamic. In 2025, advertising supply grew faster than demand. That matters. When supply is scarce-- for example, when only a handful of platforms control most ...