Salon.com > Federal Trade Commission http://www.salon.com Mon, 20 May 2013 02:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Google faces antitrust ultimatum http://www.salon.com/2012/11/12/google_faces_antitrust_ultimatum/ http://www.salon.com/2012/11/12/google_faces_antitrust_ultimatum/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:46:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13069641 The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission has warned Google: settle or face a formal antitrust lawsuit, Bloomberg News reported. The FTC has been investigating the tech giant for over a year, looking into claims that Google has given its own services -- such as YouTube or Google Drive -- precedence over competitors in search results.

Bloomberg reported Monday:
For almost 20 months, the FTC has been probing whether Mountain View, California-based Google is abusing its dominance of the Internet and it’s prepared to file a case against the operator of the world’s largest search engine if the company fails to make an acceptable settlement proposal, the people said...

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