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Search Engine Experts Tell Staffers If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It

Top experts on search engines told Capitol Hill staffers at an event organized by CCIA Tuesday that there is healthy competition among search engines. Danny Sullivan, editor in chief of Search Engin...
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Panelists Discuss Competition In Search At GMU

Academics studying everything from economics to competition among search engines and social media offered their theories on the marketplace as well as grounds for antitrust authority by regulators at ...
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Goethe’s Ghost: A Few German Publishers Claim Online Services Have No Choice But to Show a Short Extract… And Pay For It

Can you infringe someone’s right by not infringing it? According to some German press publishers, this is precisely the case after Google’s announcement that it will no longer display snippets and...

Changed Antitrust Rules Could Curb Tech Mergers

A shift in U.S. Department of Justice antitrust policy announced last week could blunt the expansion or merger plans of IT vendors, according to legal experts. In speeches last week before the Cent...
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House Subcommittee Gets A Snapshot Of Antitrust In The Digital Age

The House Judiciary subcommittee on competition asked the FTC, several antitrust experts and some industry advocates and critics whether current antitrust rules are working and should be enforced for ...
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EU To Consider Splitting Search Providers

The European Parliament filed a draft motion aimed at splitting Google’s search engine from its other commercial services. The motion could come up for a vote this month, though the move is largely ...
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European Commission Issues Problematic Antitrust Decision Against Android

Brussels, BELGIUM -- The European Commission today issued an antitrust decision against Google with respect to its Android mobile operating system (OS). The decision alleges that Google’s practice o...
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New Product, Same Old Turf Wars

The nation's leading broadcasters are blocking TV episodes on their websites from playing on Google’s new web television service. The Wall Street Journal reports ABC, NBC and CBS have blocked thos...

Data Available On Unsecured Wireless Networks and To IAPs Raise Privacy Issues

Washington – A group called Consumer Watchdog, which has almost exclusively focused on regularly criticizing Google, recently undertook an effort to gather and release personal data it collected out...

Encouraging Announcement on Competition in Broadband Access

Washington - The announcement by Google today that it will significantly expand its gigabit fiber networks is timely and hopefully will be a practical example of the benefits of competition in this ar...

A Little Knowledge Is A Dangerous Thing

The Computer & Communications Industry Association is issuing the following statement in response to an article in Monday's paper, 'Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web,' which contained sev...
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Websites and the “Natural Monopoly” Myth

Over the past few years there has been a tendency, especially by those in the financial press, to play it fast and loose with economic jargon. Buzzwords replace actual understanding of issues and the ...