SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Federal Trade Commission has hired a prominent trial lawyer to oversee its broad investigation into Google's business pract...
The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 03.30.2012
Web giants are becoming too big to care, Senator Al Franken warned Thursday. Franken argued that the growing dominance of companies such as Faceboo...
Nathan Newman | Posted 05.01.2012
We seem to be having two debates about Google -- on the cultural side, the question is whether the company violates user privacy too much and, on the business side, is Google a monopoly threat in the marketplace? But these are not separate issues at all.
Reuters | Foo Yun Chee | Posted 03.19.2012
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European regulators will decide around the end of March whether to file a formal complaint against...
The Huffington Post | Melissa Jeltsen | Posted 01.12.2012
UPDATE: On Thursday, EPIC sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission calling for an investigation into the changes at Google. The letter reads in p...
The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 12.20.2011
Google's high-stakes antitrust hearing in September seems to have raised more questions than it answered -- and lawmakers are asking regulators to tak...
Posted 01.14.2012
(Reuters) - Google Inc offered a detailed glimpse into its secret process of ranking Internet websites on Monday, publishing for the first time a ...
Stephen D. Houck | Posted 01.11.2012
Preventing Google from giving users what they want -- through features similar to those provided by its competitors -- is bad antitrust policy.
The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 01.02.2012
Google is now providing photos and other information about local businesses in its search results, an update that puts Google in direct competition wi...
Stephen D. Houck | Posted 12.07.2011
The Senate hearings left little doubt that what really underlies competitors' complaints about Google is their unhappiness about Google's constant effort to make its products better -- which is the essence of competition.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- You can't swing a dead cat video in Washington lately without hitting a lobbyist, consultant, attorney or adviser on retainer to Google ...
Posted 11.21.2011
By Diane Bartz and Malathi Nayak WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Inc has not cooked its search results to favor its own products and listings, Ex...
Posted 11.21.2011
By Jack Shafer (Reuters) - Google Inc is confident that U.S. antitrust regulators will clear the search giant of any wrongdoing, Executive Chairm...
HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 11.20.2011
This article has been updated Yelp, which has long dominated Google search results, has a new competitor that it's taking very seriously: Google itse...
Stephen D. Houck | Posted 01.11.2012
Antitrust law is about behavior. It's not about whether a company is big and successful -- it's about whether it is big and bad.
Eric K. Clemons | Posted 11.07.2011
We want to know that Google's activities have been legal, of course. But with Google's power, and their willingness to use that power to advance their business interests, I am just as interested in ascertaining that their activities have been fair.
Posted 11.06.2011
By Diane Bartz and Alexei Oreskovic WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Antitrust officials in South Korea raided Google Inc's Seoul offices o...
Posted 11.01.2011
(Reuters) - An Ohio judge dismissed antitrust claims on Wednesday in a case against Google, handing the company a victory as it faces a separate fed...
Eric K. Clemons | Posted 10.25.2011
Well, there is something happening out there in search engine land, and it's not pretty... Google got caught making a series of major mistakes, continuously, between 2003 and 2009, and people noticed it.
The Wall Street Journal | Posted 10.11.2011
U.S. antitrust regulators are focusing their investigation of Google Inc. on key areas of its business, including its Android mobile-phone software an...
Bloomberg | Posted 10.03.2011
Google Inc. (GOOG), under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission for its dominance of Internet searches, said it hired Suzanne Michel, one of t...
Posted 10.02.2011
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Google faces a total of nine antitrust complaints which EU regulators are now investigating, two sources s...
Posted 09.28.2011
(Reuters) - The Senate's antitrust panel has scheduled its hearing on Google Inc's use of its considerable market clout for mid-September, the Senat...
David Balto | Posted 08.24.2011
Much of what motivates supporters of an investigation of Google at the Federal Trade Commission is not a genuine desire to protect consumers, but a desire to protect competitors from Google's intense competitive nature.
AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE and JOELLE TESSLER | Posted 08.24.2011
SAN FRANCISCO — Google may be entering a make-or-break phase in its colorful history now that U.S. regulators have opened an investigation into ...
AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 04.27.2012