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CONTACT: Margot Williams
Google’s purchase of a leading travel software company last week has competitors worried and antitrust regulators on alert.
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CONTACT: John M. Simpson
27. June 2010
The U.S. Justice Department is paying close attention to the Internet search industry now dominated by Internet giant, Google, according to Assistant Attorney General Christine. Varney, the nation’s top trustbuster, gave the keynote speech last week to the American Antitrust Institute’s 11th Annual Convention in Washington, DC. I was there and took the opportunity to ask her what government policy should be if online search naturally tends to become a monopoly.
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CONTACT: John M. Simpson
2. June 2010
Google has been using its dominant position in online search to muscle its way into other Internet businesses, ultimately limiting consumer choice, Consumer Watchdog said today in a report written for its new Inside Google Website.
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CONTACT: John M. Simpson , 310-392-0522, x317; or 310-292-1902
21. May 2010
The Federal Trade Commission’s decision allowing the $750 million deal for Google to buy mobile advertising company AdMob is anticompetitive and bad for consumers, Consumer Watchdog said today.
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CONTACT: John M. Simpson
19. May 2010
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CONTACT: John M. Simpson
2. May 2010
Google’s controversial $750 million deal to buy mobile advertising company AdMob has raised more doubts, this time from Capitol Hill.
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CONTACT: John M. Simpson
30. April 2010
In yet another indication of the seriousness of the mounting antitrust concerns about Goolge, the Ohio Attorney General, Richard A. Cordray, has weighed in on the side of myTriggers, an internet search firm suing Google for unfair anticompetitive practices
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CONTACT: Glenn Simpson
29. April 2010
Is this how it begins?
A handful of small companies crushed by a technology giant file David v. Goliath unfair competition lawsuits. A leading Silicon Valley antitrust expert lends his legal brains to the seemingly hopeless cause. Soon, a company that thinks it is all powerful and can do no wrong is forced to face up to the reality that it does not play well with others.
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CONTACT: John Simpson cell: 310-292-1902, or 202-629-3064
21. April 2010
John Simpson at the National Press Club in D.C. "The Case Against Google" from Consumer Watchdog on Vimeo.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Consumer Watchdog today called on the U.S. Department of Justice to launch a broad antitrust action against Google seeking remedial action that could include breaking the Internet giant into separate companies.
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CONTACT: John M. Simpson
6. April 2010
More concerns about Google’s $750 million proposed deal to buy mobile advertising company AdMob were raised Tuesday.
Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI) wrote Jonathan Leibowitz, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, warning that the proposed deal “raises important competition issues which should be reviewed carefully…”
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7. July 2010