US asks judge to break up Google’s ad tech business

Google on Friday faced a demand by the US government to break up its hugely profitable ad technology business after a judge found the tech giant was commanding an illegal monopoly.“We have a defendant who has found ways to defy” the law, US government lawyer Julia Tarver Wood told a federal court in Virginia, as she urged the judge to dismiss Google’s assurance that it would change its behavior.

“Leaving a recidivist monopolist” intact is not appropriate to solve the issue, she added.

The demand is the second such request by the US government, which is…