Company: GOOGL
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001652044-25-000091
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Company: Alphabet Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 53
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 competitors. We expect a final judgment will be entered in late 2025.Further, in June 2022, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) opened an investigation into Search distribution practices. In August 2025, we agreed to a settlement with the ACCC requiring, among other things, changes to our Android agreements. Final approval of the settlement remains pending before the court.In October 2023, the Japanese Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) opened an investigation into Search distribution practices. In April 2025, the JFTC issued a cease-and-desist order requiring us to make changes to our Android agreements to ensure they are consistent with Japanese antitrust law. The JFTC did not impose monetary penalties. We are constructively engaging with the JFTC regarding compliance with the order.•Advertising Technology: In December 2020, a number of state Attorneys General filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas concerning Google's advertising technology and its compliance with U.S. antitrust laws and state deceptive trade laws. In January 2023, the DOJ, along with a number of state Attorneys General, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia concerning Google's advertising technology and its compliance with U.S. antitrust laws, and a number of additional state Attorneys General subsequently joined the lawsuit. In April 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia issued a mixed decision in the DOJ case against Google, ruling that Google's advertiser tools or acquisitions of DoubleClick and AdMeld were not anticompetitive, but that Google's publisher tools unfairly excluded rivals. A separate proceeding to determine remedies, the range of which vary widely, took place in September 2025, with the parties presenting differing remedy proposals. The DOJ's remedy proposal includes structural remedies that could have a material adverse effect on our business. We expect closing arguments to be held in November 2025, after which the court will issue its final judgment. After that judgment, we plan to appeal the adverse portion of the April 2025 decision and potentially aspects of the remedies decision. A trial in the state Attorneys General case in the Eastern District of Texas will take place after a decision on remedies is issued in the DOJ case. Given the nature of these matters, we cannot estimate a possible loss.Further, in June 2023, the EC issued a Statement of Objections informing Google of its preliminary view that Google infring