Antitrust

Google Asks Europe For More Time To Respond To Antitrust Charges

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Google has been granted an extension to formally respond to the European Commission’s antitrust charges, according to the Wall Street Journal.  The new date is now August 31.  Originally, the deadline was August 17, which is only a week away. Currently, the the “Statement of Objections” (formal antitrust charges) only concerns comparison shopping, and doesn’t count …

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EU Gives Google More Time To Respond To Antitrust Charges – Pushes Deadline To August 17

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Google has been given more time to respond to the antitrust charges being thrown at them by the EU, with the deadline now being pushed from July 7 to August 17, 2015. The news comes from a report on Reuters, where Google’s spokesman All Verney said that the EU has given in to Google’s request for …

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Study Claims Google Is Delivering “Degraded” Search Results, Adding Steam To EU Antitrust Case

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There is a report from the Wall Street Journal that tells of researchers from Columbia University and Harvard Business School who claim that Google is delivering a “degraded version of its search engine,” which outranks its own services over more relevant results for local searches on restaurants and hotels. In a study sponsored by Yelp (who is one …

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Report: EU Preparing To File Formal Antitrust Charges Against Google

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It looks like those ol’ EU boys are at it again.  Even with the possibility that the European Commission and Google can settle their issues, it seems that the search engine company will be facing formal antitrust charges in Europe.  We have to hand it to Google, they did what they could to avoid this …

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