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Group Urges Google Breakup
Google's treatment of rivals "warrants a full-blown investigation," John Simpson of Consumer Watchdog said in Washington. Breaking up the company "should be on the table," he said.
Continue reading...Consumer Watchdog Asks DoJ to Break Up Google
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
An independent consumer group will today call on the Department of Justice to consider breaking Google up because of uncompetitive practices. Consumer Watchdog says the $23 billion corporation, which holds more than 70 percent of the search market, has a stranglehold on the market.
Continue reading...Google Faces Antitrust Questions, More Privacy Concerns
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Privacy advocates. The Federal Trade Commission. The Chinese government. They've all been on Google's back recently. And it seems the company is now on Consumer Watchdog's blacklist as well. The Santa Monica, Calif.-based consumer advocacy group is lobbying the U.S. Department of Justice to begin an antitrust investigation into the search giant. In fact, the argument has also been made that the company may need to be broken up.
Continue reading...Consumer Group Calls for Antitrust Investigation of Google
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
The U.S. Department of Justice should launch a broad antitrust investigation into Google's search and advertising practices and consider a wide array of penalties, including possibly breaking the company up, a consumer group said Wednesday. Consumer Watchdog, along with a mobile entrepreneur and two lawyers representing Google rivals, all called on the DOJ to initiate an antitrust investigation focusing on a number of issues, including Google's marriage of search results to advertising and its book search service.
Continue reading...Watchdog Wants Google’s Head as Google’s Lobbying Spend Jumps 57%
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Consumer groups and privacy watchdogs suspicious of Google Creep -- its growing size and extension on the Web -- are looking at Google's moves in Washington, D.C., with the flinty enthusiasm of fire and brimstone preachers.
Continue reading...News Clipping
Consumer Watchdog Calls on Justice Department to Launch Antitrust Action Against Google, Including Possible Breakup
By John Simpson
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
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.
Continue reading...Consumer Group to Call for Google Break up
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Consumer Watchdog, the Santa Monica group that's proving a perpetual thorn in the side of Google Inc., plans to call on the Justice Department to launch an antitrust action against the search giant and seek remedies including a possible break up.
Continue reading...Should Google Be Broken Up Into Several Companies?
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
A Santa Monica, Calif.-based consumer watchdog group called, er, "Consumer Watchdog" intends to ask the U.S. Justice Department tomorrow during a press conference to investigate and take antitrust action against Google. The action they're calling for includes breaking up the company into "baby Googs."
Continue reading...FTC reportedly seeking sworn statements in Google-AdMob deal
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Antitrust regulators are reported by Bloomberg news service to be seeking sworn statements from Google's competitors and advertisers as they continue to investigate the the Internet giant's proposed $750 million deal to buy AdMob.
Continue reading...Candidates Find Incumbent Advantage Extends To Web
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Thirteen years in the House and a stint as majority leader have furnished Rep.Roy Blunt, R-Mo., with useful GOP and K Street support for his Senate bid. But Blunt's long resume also means a boost from another source: Google. Google's overwhelming dominance of the search market has brought its power to determine marketplace outcomes under new scrutiny this year. Tech company Foundem and other so-called "search neutrality" advocates allege that the search engine is gaining an unfair advantage by favoring its own products in searches. The advocacy group Consumer Watchdog wrote the Justice Department last week urging it to investigate the issue, while the European Commission is already checking out complaints from Foundem and others.
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
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