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What's to prevent them from just spinning this off under the Alphabet name? IANAL but wouldn't that be the logical course of action at Google to avoid the wrath
by gabereiser 3y ago
What's to prevent them from just spinning this off under the Alphabet name? IANAL but wouldn't that be the logical course of action at Google to avoid the wrath of the justice department?
- connor11528 3y agoIn the "remedies" section of the complaint they ask for "divestiture" which I'm pretty sure means spinning companies off out of Alphabet's hands. > Order the divestiture of, at minimum, the Google Ad Manager suite, including both Google’s publisher ad server, DFP, and Google’s ad exchange, AdX, along with any additional structural relief as needed to cure any anticompetitive harm;
- gabereiser 3y agoThey say Google in the quote, not Alphabet. IANAL but wouldn't it have to also say Google's Parent Company (Alphabet, Inc)?
- djbusby 3y agoTerms may be (very likely) defined earlier in legal docs, like a variable of sorts. So in the quote Google could mean a complex description of the entity.
- gabereiser 3y agoyou're most likely right. Hereto "The Company" et al.
- paxys 3y ago"Spinning it off" under the same stock ticker, same CEO and same board of directors isn't how divestiture works.
- gabereiser 3y agoIt wouldn't be the same ticker or CEO per se but you'd probably know more than I.
- paxys 3y agoWhy would it not? GOOG is the ticker for all of Alphabet, and Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Alphabet.