Theoretically Google could face a fine as high as $4 billion – 10 percent of its global turnover – if found to be in breach of European laws. Google has submitted a response to the European Commission (EC) over its anti-competitive business...
Google maintains that it hasn't broken any antitrust laws and is trying to make sure that any agreement with the FTC won't involve a consent decree. In a consent decree, Google wouldn't necessarily have to admit that it was in violation of any...
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) officials are reportedly thinking of dropping their antitrust case against Google, Bloomberg reports. As European Commission vice chairman Joaquin Almunia has indicated publicly, the evidence clearly shows Google's...
The antitrust chief urged the lower house of parliament to extend antitrust laws to Internet media companies, like Google, which are now competing with publishing houses. Italy's antitrust chief has warned the nation's lower house of parliament of...
However, one might also argue that it’s important for the government to be open, transparent, and remain objective during an antitrust investigation; private lunch meetings, off the record, don’t seem in keeping with those objectives.
European antitrust chiefs are offering Google a chance to end the 18-month investigation into alleged monopoly abuses by the company. The EC has the power to fine firms as much as 10 percent of their annual revenues, if they are found to have...
For anybody following Google, this shouldn’t be shocking, especially with increasing legal and antitrust scrutiny from governments and privacy bodies around the world. The only products that seem to have their own product-specific privacy policy...
Personally, I was confused when two U.S.senators involved in the antitrust subcommittee investigation last summer spoke out recently to say they believe an official investigation is warranted. Google has cherry-picked positive quotes from...
Two of the US Senators involved in the subcommittee investigation this fall have asked the FTC to launch a formal antitrust investigation into Google, who they believe could be abusing their dominant position in the market, or may do so in the...
FTC's antitrust probe into Google, the search marketing organization SEMPO issues a statement to the FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz, calling for zero regulation. Why should looking for things on the Internet be subject to government regulation, any...
Regardless of the timing, this allegation is part of the large Google antitrust probe that began earlier this year, as the FTC is attempting to determine whether Google has abused its power and violated antitrust laws, and no doubt will take...
Google's attempt to acquire unrestricted control over ITA, which would have violated antitrust laws, has been thwarted - representing a significant step in the right direction. Today's antitrust enforcement action by the Justice Department is a...
Federal Trade Commission and is facing pressure from the Texas Attorney General, who is calling for an antitrust investigation of Google's AdWords product. Now South Korea has targeted Google for allegedly collecting and storing data against local...
Google's attempt to acquire unrestricted control over ITA, which would have violated antitrust laws, has been thwarted - representing a significant step in the right direction. The Department of Justice's Antitrust Division today filed a civil...
Are Antitrust Regulators Poised to Approve Google-ITA Deal Soon? Warning to all SEO consultants: you better read the copy you're working on and understand if it's breaking any laws, because a South Carolina judge found a marketer guilty and imposed...
Google earlier this month added Stewart Jeffries, House Judiciary Committee antitrust counsel for Republicans, and the company "hopes to add one more Republican to its federal relations staff," which is headed by Pablo Chavez, Politico reported.
The antitrust discussions about Google's monopolistic hold on the search industry are another way we could see the government enter our industry in a very direct and pervasive way. You'd think that the Internet is becoming a safer place as a result...
Add this to the antitrust action heading Google's way for its book listings. If that's the case, then they may be guilty of actions that would counter the CDA laws. Are they starting to downplay the work done by companies trying to get rid of...
Antitrust laws? Yesterday Google co-founder Sergey Brin described the Internet doomsday scenario if Microsoft wins its Yahoo takeover bid. How does Google love thee, Microsoft? Let me count the ways: Internet innovation?
Kinderstart.com claims Google violated antitrust laws, "What Google is trying to do is take out the competition," Kinderstart.com's lawyer said. From The SEW Blog. Point and Search' Redux After my most recent post on "point and search" mobile...
