In an effort to protect consumers from heightened e-book prices, the Department of Justice could sue Apple Wednesday morning.
The DOJ is concerned with a deal between Apple and five other publishers — Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Penguin …
Expedia and TripAdvisor have just filed complaints about Google’s travel search features as part of a larger antitrust probe the search giant is facing in the European Union.
Altogether the European Commission has received 13 formal complaints, including the new …
The European Union’s antitrust Commission has opened up two new investigations that will explore whether Motorola Mobility is unfairly licensing some of its patents, the organization announced today.
The investigations follow complaints from two of the biggest technology companies in …
The European Union competition commission is expected to release its finding on whether Google violated antitrust regulations in the next few days, according to a new letter from consumer rights group the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC).
Back in November 2010, …
Updated (1:12pm PT) with Apple’s decline to comment.
Apple is being subpoenaed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in its antitrust investigation of Google.
Apple declined VentureBeat’s request for comment.
According to Bloomberg, the FTC has requested documents related to …
Google may be facing some antitrust inquiries from the Federal Trade Commission over its use of Google+ social results in its web search.
The company has been involved in an ongoing antitrust probe from the FTC since at least June …
Twitter’s lawyers are taking a long, hard look at Google’s new social search features, and they don’t like what they see.
With Google’s new mode of searching, social media results powered by Google+ show up among regularly ranked links and …
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Google’s new Search plus Your World product, announced yesterday, is making a lot of waves. The new search puts content shared by your friends in the Google+ social network higher up in search results than other content — a move …
Updated at at 7:38pm with comments from Google representative.
Twitter is not happy with Google‘s new social search features. So unhappy, in fact, that the company is calling it a “bad day for the Internet” and media overall.
“We’re concerned …
Google’s proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility has hit a roadblock, courtesy of European Union regulators.
EU investigators have been reviewing the deal for some time, but they are suspending that review to gather more information about the proposal and determine …
Apple is once again in hot water with the European Commission, this time over its pricing strategies with e-book publishers.
The EC announced today that it has begun formal antitrust investigations into Apple and five major book publishers — Hachette …
Google chairman Eric Schmidt paid a visit to Brussels today to meet with European Commissioner Joaquín Almunia in person.
Google has been prancing in a complicated minuet with the European Commission over its business practices, which some European companies say …
The U.S. Department of Justice today put its stamp of approval on Google’s acquisition of Admeld, an online ad startup.
The $400 million deal was under some scrutiny to determine whether or not it posed antitrust issues.
However, as the …
Following Google’s recent purchase of Zagat, social review and discovery site Yelp will cooperate with the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation’s antitrust lawsuit against the search giant, the company announced today.
Since Google now directly competes against Yelp in terms of …
AT&T will soon present a plan to the Justice Department to save its proposed $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile, which is said to involve some major concessions on AT&T’s part, Reuters reports.
The carrier has to make clear to the …
FCC chairman Julius Genachowski is throwing his agency’s weight behind the Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit against AT&T over its proposed merger with T-Mobile.
“By filing suit today, the Department of Justice has concluded that AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile would …
The U.S. government has just filed papers to block AT&T’s proposed $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile, Bloomberg reports.
The Justice Department argues that the merger would “substantially lessen competition” in the wireless market, according to the filing. The DOJ goes …
The Federal Trade Commission’s large-scale probe into Google is focusing on its mobile device platform, Android, in addition to the way the company uses information from rivals, the Wall Street Journal reports.
But the FTC will likely have a difficult …
Yesterday we wrote that the Federal Trade Commission was readying a large-scale Google antitrust probe, and today Google confirmed that it has received notification of an investigation from the regulatory agency. Google Fellow and key search engineer Amit Singhal responded …
Watch out Google, the Federal Trade Commission is on your tail. The FTC is set to serve Google with civil subpoenas as part of a large-scale antitrust investigation, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Unlike previous Google antitrust investigations, which were …
