Gareth Morgan wrote EC competition chief offers Google chance to settle anti-trust case Competition commissioner Joaquín Almunia said that its initial investigations had identified four areas of concerns over Google's businesses practices:
At that time, though, they warned Google that it would remain under scrutiny for any suggestion that it used the purchase of Motorola for anti-competitive practices. Google has confirmed that Chinese authorities have approved its $12.5 billion...
The DOJ agreed to an undisclosed settlement with the seven companies for anti-competitive practices. A California judge has denied a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit from employees claiming that a group of high profile tech companies...
In 2010, a number of companies including Apple, Intel and Google, agreed to a settlement with the U.S.government that restricted them from creating such anti-competitive employment agreements in the future.
The European Commission (EC) will issue a 400-page document outlining its concerns with Google's alleged anti-competitive practices, according to sources at the EC. Dan Worth wrote EC to slap Google with 400-page document outlining anti-competition...
In response to these alleged anti-competitive practices, ShopCity – a site that describes itself as providing "all the tools independent businesses need to connect with customers and succeed online - in a single, simple-to-use system" – has filed...
Google is currently being investigated over anti-competitive behavior in the search market for allegedly favoring its own products over competitors', and having such dominance in the market that other companies cannot compete.
The claim stated that Google's pre-installation of Google software on the Android OS, as well as features of Android that are "systematically designed" to make switching to another search provider difficult, are anti-competitive.
But the DOJ will take its time determining whether this deal will give Google an anti-competitive advantage in online advertising. Google has recently faced DOJ scrutiny for its acquisition ITA, as well as for hiring practices and making money from...
Paris-based Internet company 1PlusV is suing Google for €295 million euros, or approximately $421 million (U.S.for what 1PlusV claims are anti-competitive practices. The European Commission is currently investigating Google for potentially anti...
The Google Anti-Competition Accusations According to the Wall Street Journal, accusations are primarily "that Google's anticompetitive practices include using other companies' content without their permission, deceptive display of search results...
Citing Google's dominant U.K.market share -- 91 percent as of this month -- Jones said that local companies are being "squeezed out by unfair and anti-competitive practices by Google. Without search neutrality rules to constrain Google's...
Twitter worm hits goo.gl, redirects to fake anti-virus - ZDNet Increasingly, the quality of Google's search results and business practices are being called into question. Guide to Competitive Backlink Analysis - SEOmoz
One person died and two were injured when two bombs exploded in Stockholm Sweden just minutes after the national news agency TT and Swedish security service Säpo received an email containing an audio attachment criticizing "anti-Islamic cartoons...
Department of Justice has settled with Google and five other technology companies, requiring them to no longer engage in anti-competitive "no solicitation" agreements. The DOJ's investigation began last year, with the goal of determining whether...
Google then went nuclear, dropping the "A-bomb" -- invoking anti-trust concerns and citing as evidence Microsoft's "unfair practices" and "legacy of serious legal and regulatorty offenses" in the Netscape browser wars.
This is a complex subject – similar in my mind to understanding what constitutes fair marketing vs.anti-competitive practices in capitalist markets – and it requires thorough and thoughtful analysis and debate.
Click Quality Council Outlines 8 Principles of Click QualityThe Click Quality Council, an anti-click fraud group created by PPC auditing firm Click Forensics, has issued a set of eight principles it feels are necessary to produce quality clicks.
