Saturday, April 4, 2015

EU about to sue Google – Business Week

The EU has for five years investigating whether Google restricts competition in the market and now appears to be ready to formally accuse the search engine for this particular .

It is the EU’s competition authority now preparing for action against Google over the coming weeks. This is to formally accuse the search engine to restrict competition in the market. Google denies obvious. This writes Finwire.

The investigation of Google’s unique status has been doing for five years and stalled a number of times on the way. Now it has asked the company that submitted the complaint to Google about sökjätten published information previously submitted confidentially, according to several scattered sources.

These are companies ranging from e-commerce to travel. Experts in antritrustlagar underline now that this type of inquiries suggests that formal charges being prepared, writes Finwire.

This lawsuit, which the EU is expected shortly to launch, will be the largest in a long time for the Union. The last time we saw a mood of this size was when the EU sued Microsoft. This ended in 2012 with the tech company was fined € 1.7 billion.

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