The concessions come following the European Commission's ongoing antitrust investigation into Google's search business. Google's antitrust case was instigated by competitors including Microsoft. UK price comparison firm Foundem has rejected Google...
The European Commission is now seeking feedback on Google's cosmetic search result changes that aim to settle a years-long antitrust investigation. Despite these proposed changes, the EU antitrust case isn’t over.
The European Commission (EC) has been investigating Google's alleged "anticompetitive" internet search service since 2010, after a number of companies lead by Microsoft complained that Google was abusing its dominant position in the internet...
Federal Trade Commission closed its 19-month search antitrust probe earlier this year after deciding that Google's demotion of competing websites was justifiable. The search giant hopes the concessions will put an end to the EU's two-year long...
The attack ads coincide with another European antitrust complaint orchestrated by Microsoft relating to Google's Android software. In an interview with the New York Times, European Union’s antitrust chief, Joaquín Almunia, noted one solution to...
Microsoft blamed this on a technical error, but its excuse wasn't enough to avoid a steep fine and the honor of becoming the first company to fail to comply with an EC antitrust agreement. The European Commission (EC) hit Microsoft with a €561...
Google has submitted a response to the European Commission (EC) over its anti-competitive business concerns, Reuters reported. Theoretically Google could face a fine as high as $4 billion – 10 percent of its global turnover – if found to be in...
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) officials are reportedly thinking of dropping their antitrust case against Google, Bloomberg reports. Ben Hammer, a spokesperson with industry advocacy group FairSearch.org, said the FTC need only to look at recent...
The firm also faced similar issues in the Europe, and was earlier this year told by European Commission to come up with an agreeable settlement so that a prolonged investigation could be avoided. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is aiming to resolve...
European Commission antitrust chief Joaquin Almunia said on Tuesday that EU regulators had reached "a good degree of understanding between Google and the Commission," according to the Wall Street Journal
The European Commission (EC) gave Google a July deadline to address antitrust concerns. Italy's antitrust chief has warned the nation's lower house of parliament of an impending Google publishing monopoly.
European antitrust chiefs are offering Google a chance to end the 18-month investigation into alleged monopoly abuses by the company. The senators also called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to step up its investigation by considering both...
Mozilla has accused Microsoft of failing in its commitment to give Windows users a choice in browsers, a charge that previously saw Microsoft become the subject of a U.S.antitrust case. Further action by the European Commission led to an agreement...
Dave Heiner, Microsoft's deputy general counsel for its antitrust group, outlined Microsoft’s concerns with Motorola's stance on industry standard patent use in a detailed blog post. Microsoft has filed a formal complaint against Motorola with the...
Department of Justice (DOJ) and the European Commission (EC) each announced that the deal had been cleared by their respective antitrust authorities and could proceed. U.S.and EU antitrust authorities have approved Google's proposed acquisition of...
For anybody following Google, this shouldn’t be shocking, especially with increasing legal and antitrust scrutiny from governments and privacy bodies around the world. At a time when the European Commission is proposing to significantly enhance the...
ShopCity Joins the Antitrust Army These days, however, he's also ShopCity's antitrust lawyer. These two issues – of demotions without cause and Google promoting its own content – have been the center of various other antitrust complaints to both...
The Federal Trade Commission is conducting an antitrust investigation of Google, exploring whether the company has used its outsized search market share (around 65 percent in the U.S.to advance its own products.
In the European antitrust investigation that started last November and has escalated to 10 complaints since, the European Commission is still determining Google’s degree of dominance in the web search industry.
Deal du Jour, a French daily deal company, has filed an antitrust complaint to the European Commission. Google's Antitrust Woes For corporations, antitrust reviews are certainly among them. The antitrust investigation in Europe has been ongoing...
