A judge, not a jury, will give the verdict in the antitrust trial about Google's ad business, after Google paid $2.3M to cover US government's monetary damages (Matthew Barakat/Associated Press)

Matthew Barakat / Associated Press:

A judge, not a jury, will give the verdict in the antitrust trial about Google’s ad business, after Google paid $2.3M to cover US government’s monetary damages  —  A judge rather than a jury will decide whether Google violated federal antitrust laws by building a monopoly on the technology that powers online advertising.