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Fortune
David Meyer

Google may be forced to sell off some of its most prized businesses

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, attends a press event to announce Google as the new official partner of the Women's National Team at Google Berlin. (Credit: Christoph Soeder—picture alliance/Getty Images)

The European Commission has hit Alphabet’s Google with antitrust charges over its behavior in the advertising technology business, which is the company’s biggest earner.

The Commission, which has been probing the matter for the past two years, will now launch a formal antitrust investigation. If that confirms its suspicions, it said it may order Google to break up its adtech business.

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