Usually, companies don’t want to be subjected to regulatory scrutiny. However this time, it appears, Facebook is actively soliciting...

Italian authorities have begun to investigate the companies and the issue. Previously, the EU argued that freemium apps are potentially...

settled its investigation of Google without any significant penalty or restrictions. More recently, the long European antitrust inquiry...

At a recent meeting of financial analysts Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer characterized Google as a search “monopoly,” implying the company...

In early 2011, South Korean search and portal providers NHN Corp. and Daum Communications filed antitrust complaints with the South...

According to the NY Times, Almunia said that Google needs to “improve” its current proposal: “I concluded that the proposals that Google...

EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia negotiated the current settlement with Google over a period of months. The specific...

On Monday, an advisory (non-binding) opinion from Niilo Jaeaeskinen of the EU Court of Justice found that Google cannot (or should not)...

In addition, Waze becomes one fewer potential mapping challenger in the marketplace. According to the Wall Street Journal, the FTC “is...

settlement with the company earlier this year. It’s a highly problematic issue from a legal standpoint but it’s the one Google’s critics...

Bloomberg, Google is facing yet another antitrust headache at the hands of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The agency is fresh off...

preliminary determination that Google’s Motorola Mobility unit “abused its dominant position” under EU antitrust rules in seeking to...

complaint in Europe against Google. The complaint focuses on Android and calls the operating system a “‘Trojan Horse’ to deceive...

imposed a fine of €561 million ($731 million) for not upholding its agreement to offer alternative Web browsers to Windows users. In...

search market share may be hovering below 5 percent, Android is the overwhelmingly dominant smartphone operating system in the world’s...

Quoted in a Bloomberg article Schmidt said the following: Booming demand for Android-based smartphones is helping Google add share at the...

Kred scoring) from access to Twitter’s feed, has fallen victim to Twitter’s recent ambitions to rein in and exercise more control over...

approved Google’s $22.5 million settlement with the FTC. Some Google critics decried the settlement as having little impact on Google....

The earlier Motorola ITC patent victory was based on a single claim related to wireless 3G standards. Motorola seeks an import ban on...

Reuters the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has opened a formal antitrust investigation against Google. The article reports that...