Google outlined a proposal earlier this month to end the EU antitrust investigation. Google is getting ever closer to a settlement with the Euroopean Commission regarding its search and advertising antitrust probe.
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...
After a five-month investigation, the $400 million acquisition of Admeld was cleared once antitrust concerns arising from the purchase were alleviated. Accounting for 9.3 percent of online display spending (up from 8.3 percent in 2010), Google...
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 U.S. ShopCity Joins the Antitrust Army These days, however, he's also ShopCity's antitrust...
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.
Senate antitrust subcommittee, Google will have Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt to testify on their behalf. Google had hoped David Drummond would be able to continue his tenure as company antitrust face.
Federal Trade Commission antitrust investigation after the Justice Department completes its review of Google's acquisition of travel software developer ITA Software and determines whether to challenge or impose restrictions on the deal.
Are Antitrust Regulators Poised to Approve Google-ITA Deal Soon? Looking to carry out an investigation into whether social media is a big influence on search engine optimization? While President Obama's administration plans to increase its efforts...
Outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt met with Joaquin Almunia, vice president of the European Commission, during the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to discuss the ongoing EU antitrust investigation. Google Antitrust Deal in Works?
The Texas attorney general leading an antitrust investigation of Google wants to know how Google determines the prices for its AdWords paid search advertising program and how sites are ranked in Google's search results.
An antitrust investigation initiated by Italian newspaper publishers who cried foul over lost advertising revenue when their headlines were pulled from Google's main search results after they opted out of Google's News results, has ended.
Google Faces EU Antitrust Investigation Over Alleged Organic, Paid Search Result Bias by Danny Goodwin That will be the focus of antitrust regulators as they formally investigate complaints of discrimination in Google's paid and organic search...
The DOJ's investigation began last year, with the goal of determining whether several tech companies -- including Google, Adobe, Apple, Intel, Intuit, and Pixar -- broke antitrust law by colluding on hiring practices.
now that Microsoft sealed the deal, unless it unravels in an antitrust investigation (wink, wink). Since Google and Apple are themselves under antitrust scrutiny, Schmidt could agree to leave the Apple board in exchange for Apple doing a Yahoo!
Yesterday, we reported on a new antitrust investigation targeting Silicon Valley tech companies regarding possible agreements to not hire away each other's talent. A 'Do Not Touch' list would be in violation of antitrust law if it were agreed to by...
That's the question behind a new federal antitrust investigation, and search companies are not immune. Search Companies Part of Fed Antitrust Investigation into Hiring Practices Posted by Nathania Johnson Jun 5, 2009 Do tech companies have a secret...
That's the question behind a new federal antitrust investigation, and search companies are not immune. But Google's antitrust problems did not end there. The federal government is increasingly investigating antitrust issues regarding tech and search.
due to a Department of Justice antitrust investigation, the search engine is facing a similar battle - this time with its Book Search settlement. Months after Google pulled out of a search ad deal with Yahoo!
In a letter to Assistant Attorney General Thomas Barnett, Kohl, Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust urges: Even should you conclude at present that this deal is not contrary to antitrust law, the Department must be sure that this...
It turns out that when the largest search engine teams up with the second largest search engine to combine advertising, it raises antitrust issues! The Department of Justice opened an official investigation into the deal months ago.
