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The FTC Google Settlement on Essential Patents Rewards Good Faith Bargaining, Deters Both Hold-Up and Hold-Out

David Balto | Posted 03.06.2013 | Technology
Read More: Antitrust, Google, Ftc, Patents, FTC Google, Google Antitrust, Google Settlement, Technology News
David Balto

In a unanimous vote, the Federal Trade Commission announced it has closed its investigation into Google's search practices, concluding that the evidence "does not support" an antitrust case. The FTC cannot stop here.

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Gerry Smith

FTC Hits Google With Record Fine Over Privacy Violation

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 10.09.2012 | Technology
Read More: Google, Google Privacy, Google FTC, Ftc Google Privacy, Ftc, Google Privacy Settlement, Google Settlement, Reuters, Technology News

Google has agreed to pay a record settlement over charges that it bypassed privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser in order to display targeted a...

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Why Is DOJ Sealing Evidence in the Google Case?

Nathan Newman | Posted 10.29.2011 | Business
Read More: Google, Google Canada, Google Ads, Google Doj, Google Department of Justice, Google Drug Ads, Google Pharmacy, Google Settlement, Business News
Nathan Newman

While it's good that the DOJ investigated Google's illegal activity, the disturbing aspect of the agreement is that the evidence of Larry Page's direct knowledge of criminal activity was sealed from the public.

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Steinbeck And Guthrie Families Now Support Google Books

The New York Times | Motoko Rich | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Google, Arlo Guthrie, Google Lawsuit, Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath, Author's Guild, Alice's Restaurant, Google Settlement, Google Books, Guthrie, Books News

The families of the author John Steinbeck and the musician Woody Guthrie, which previously opposed the proposed Google Book settlement that would crea...

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Google Is Great For Classic Books

The Boston Globe | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Google, Books, Publishers, Google Settlement, Classic Books, Books News

The publishing industry has been roiled over the plans of Internet search giant Google to scan millions of books and make them searchable and availabl...

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eRead Free Classics Courtesy Of Google

The New York Times | Mick Sussman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Nook, Google, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ereader, iPhone App, Emerson, Barnes, Google Settlement, Google Books, Amazon, Books News

I recently read Emerson cover to cover, so to speak, on my iPhone's Kindle app -- a lesson both in Transcendentalism and the advantages of digitized l...

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Google Books Settlement: Key Players Comment

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz and Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Copyright Infringement, Open Books Alliance, Google Books Settlement, Copyright Law, Copyright, Google Books, Google Settlement, Orphan Books, Foreign-Language Books, Books, Antitrust, Amazon, Google, Authors Guild, Books News

It's been three years since the lawsuit was filed that launched the Google Books Settlement, a long series of back-and-forth negotiations about the co...

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