Google Employees Tune Out Antitrust Threat as Trial Comes to a Head
They shrugged off concerns about the company’s fate ahead of closing arguments in the Justice Department’s lawsuit this week.
By Nico Grant
Nico Grant is a technology reporter covering Google from San Francisco. Before joining The New York Times, he spent five years at Bloomberg News, where he reported on Google, cloud computing and hardware companies. He is based in Oakland, Calif., and grew up in New York City. He attended the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.
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