In US v. Google, YouTube’s CEO defends the Google way
by David Pierce from The Verge - All Posts on (#6QSWG)
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge The word of the day in US v. Google was parking." As in: did Google buy some of its most ascendant and dangerous competitors in the online advertising business, all the while planning on parking them off in some far-flung corner of the company so that no one could possibly upset Google's dominance? That is a central question of the government's entire case against Google, and it came up over and over on Monday morning.
To kick off the second week of the landmark antitrust trial over Google's control of online advertising, the Department of Justice called Neal Mohan, the CEO of YouTube and a longtime Google advertising executive. Mohan came to Google in 2008 through Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, which formed the basis of Google's...