The Justice Department has made a habit of delving into Google’s acquisitions and business dealings throughout the Obama administration. Now the Federal Trade Commission is looking for a piece of the action. full story ![]()
Timothy P. CarneyLast April, while the Federal Trade Commission was investigating Google for antitrust violations (I never thought Google did anything wrong in this case), Google made a $25,000 corporate contribution to fund an award for Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the FTC, Bloomberg reports. And then this week, the web tightened a little more as the non-profit that honored...
washingtonexaminer.com (3 months and 19 days ago)
Timothy P. CarneyLast April, while the Federal Trade Commission was investigating Google for antitrust violations (I never thought Google did anything wrong in this case), Google made a $25,000 corporate contribution to fund an award for Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the FTC, Bloomberg reports. And then this week, the web tightened a little more as the non-profit that honored...
washingtonexaminer.com (3 months and 19 days ago)
Just a few months after escaping an antitrust case on its search ads, Google is now the subject of a Federal Trade Commission probe of its display-ad business.
forbes.com (25 days ago)
Google Inc. is facing a new antitrust probe by the Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display advertising market to illegally curb competition, people familiar with the matter said.
latimes.com (24 days ago)

The Federal Trade Commission has reportedly launched an investigation into Google’s display ad business amid complaints from rivals that the company is abusing its power in how it sells online-graphical and video ads. The examination, which has been reported in The Wall Street Journal and other news outlets, concerns a process of grouping ad-related services together...
pcworld.com (25 days ago)

The US federal trade commission is investigating whether Google's DoubleClick advertising subsidiary has illegally pushed customers to buy its other products, the Guardian has established. The regulator is understood to be looking at whether the display advertiser, acquired by Google in 2008 for $3.1bn (£2bn), is being used to muscle clients into buying adverts on other...
guardian.co.uk (25 days ago)
After Google survived the FTC antitrust probe relatively unscathed, experts expected the company to face a tougher time in Europe. But some complainants and experts are beginning to have doubts.
marketwatch.com (2 months and 9 days ago)

U.S. antitrust regulators said on Tuesday they would pounce on Google if they learned that the company, which dominates Internet search, violated the law after reaching an antitrust settlement in January.
mercurynews.com (2 months and 4 days ago)
Google has taken another step toward settling a European antitrust investigation focusing on whether the Internet giant is abusing its dominant position of online search and advertising markets.
foxnews.com (2 months and 5 days ago)

An end may be in sight for the two-year antitrust investigations into Google as the European Commission sets a rough deadline to reach an agreement."We can reach an agreement after the summer break," EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said in a Concurrences Journal conference earlier today. "We can envisage this as a possible deadline."The European Commission's...
techradar.com (3 months and 26 days ago)
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