Google is going to, according to Bloomberg, create a separate business unit that will manage shopping content in search results to comply with European Commission’s recent antitrust decision.  Reportedly, this unit will be required to compete the auction against shopping competitors. It seems that the unit will use its own budget and revenues to bid in the […]

Social site, Gab.ai, which is described as  “digital safe space for the far right” or the “alt-right’s very own Twitter,” is suing Google parent Alphabet for alleged violations of antitrust law. The company filed the suit after their Android app was removed from Google Play. According to Gab.ai’s complaint, the app wasn’t allowed to appear on Apple’s iOS […]

A letter has been sent to the Federal Trad Commission (FTC) by Yelp, asserting that Google improperly used Yelp images in local search results in violation of its 2013 antitrust settlement with the regulatory agency.  Aside from the FTC, Yelp sent the letter to several members of Congress and state attorneys general, according to a report in The […]

According to a post on the The Telegraph, Google plans to file an appeal against the roughly $2.7 billion (€2.4 billion) antitrust fine imposed by the European Commission in June for abuse of market position in shopping search.  Aside from the $1.3 billion against Intel, the Google fine is the largest in EU history. Intel had won a rare partial […]

The highest court in the EU has dealt a blow to the European antitrust regulator.  In a report on the morning of September 7 the European Court of Justice, a roughly $1.3 billion fine imposed in 2009 on Intel needed to be re-examined by a lower court. The facts in this case involved the question of if […]

In a report in The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), it was said that Google is providing refunds to some advertisers that used DoubleClik Bid Manager in conjunction with ads that were placed on sites with fraudulent or invalid traffic: In the past few weeks, Google has informed hundreds of marketers and ad agency partners about the issue […]

There have been a steady stream of reports over the past several months that the EU was preparing to fine Google for alleged search market abuses.  Well, all the news of this fine is getting louder, as the fine will reportedly be around on billion euros (41.17 billion). It’s the authority of the EU to be able to fine […]

According to the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, Google hasn’t committed “genericide.”  Although people have used the term “google,” referring to searching online, for almost 20 years, that doesn’t invalidate the company’s trademark. The legal dispute began when an individual by the name of Chris Gillespie, registered hundreds of domains that contained the word “google,” […]

For a while now, we know that Google, along with other sites (like Facebook) have been having issues concerning fake news and problematic content.  This has been going on since November, where Google has been plagued with disturbing content, fake news and offensive search suggestions appearing at the top of its results. In response, “Project […]

Google and Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) have finally settled the antitrust case that had to do with the pre-installation of Google apps on Android handsets.  The antitrust began about two years ago following a complaint by Yandex. FAS found, back in 2015, that the required pre-installation of apps on Android phones in Russia were anti-competitive.  In 2016, FAS […]