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JANUARY 27, 2020

The probe is centered on whether Google’s monopoly of the online search world – and the ensuing advertising revenue it commands – represent an illegal form of market control. states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico formally launched an investigation into Google. Thus far, U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

With the boom of eCommerce both before and during the pandemic, European Union regulators are taking another look at antitrust rules regarding internet sales and distribution platforms. Online sales in such countries as Spain, an EU member, are expected to grow by 20 percent , according to eMarketer. billion ($2.6

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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Google has won a green light from India’s competition watchdog for its plans to purchase a significant stake in Jio Platforms, the nation’s largest telecom. 11) tweet , the Competition Commission of India (CCI) announced its decision to approve Google’s $4.5 Under terms of the deal , Google will acquire a 7.73

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DECEMBER 1, 2019

EU antitrust regulators are probing Google to see how the search giant uses and monetizes the data it collects on users, Reuters reported on Saturday (Nov. An EU executive told Reuters that the European Commission wanted to know what methods Google uses to mine data and the reasons behind the collection. .

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

Google’s antitrust woes in Europe and around the world just got a little bigger. Italian competition regulators are probing the Alphabet-owned search and tech giant amid allegations Google has abused its power atop the country’s display ad market, Reuters reported Wednesday (Oct.

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DECEMBER 20, 2019

The competition authority in France has fined search engine company Google 150 million euros ($167 million) for its anti-competitive actions, as well as its advertisement placement behavior on its Google Ads page, according to a report by CNBC. This isn’t the first time that Google has paid a fine in France.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

15) extensive potential new regulations for digital services that would cover online marketplaces, social media and other platforms, offering first drafts for the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA) to the public. The European Commission released on Tuesday (Dec.

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MAY 20, 2020

European Union (EU) regulators want feedback from users and digital service providers before they craft new rules that could manage giant tech firms Google, Facebook, Amazon and Uber, Reuters reported. Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg published “Charting the Way Forward: Online Content Regulation.”

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) company Afterpay has pushed back against the Reserve Bank of Australia’s potential regulation of its fees. Afterpay has a market capitalization of around $10 billion. Afterpay CEO Anthony Eisen said the company should be seen as a sales and marketing company, more like Amazon or Google.

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AUGUST 10, 2020

Google Pay and PhonePe , digital payment providers, are collaborating with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to offer recurring payments, Moneycontrol.com reported, citing banking sources. Google Pay and PhonePe have started work on the recurring payments platform,” one of the bankers said, according to Moneycontrol.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Google is planning to launch consumer checking accounts next year in partnership with Citigroup and Stanford University, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Wednesday (Nov. The branding will reflect the financial institutions and not Google. “Our It may be the slightly longer path, but it’s more sustainable.”.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

How do consumers really want to search online ? Perhaps a better, more specific question is this: Even with Google ’s search engine dominance (a dominance that seems as currently eternal as, say, the power of the British Navy in the late 19 th century), can any challenger make a significant push to gain ground?

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JUNE 9, 2019

Google is spending more than any other U.S. tech company on lobbying as the tech sector faces increased scrutiny and the potential for more regulation. According to a report in CNBC citing the Center for Responsive Politics, Google spent $21.17 In 2009 Google spent $4 million on lobbying, with that increasing fivefold in 2018.

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JUNE 5, 2019

Google has appealed the European Commission’s $1.7 billion fine, which was issued March for anti-competitive behaviors in the online advertising market. CNBC , citing Google, reported the appeal was filed in the General Court of the European Union in Brussels. Google had already settled with the FTC back in 2013.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Regulation. Tencent Holdings President Martin Lau said further regulations are needed in China to mirror a “new reality.”. As technology companies become bigger and more important to the economy, I would say more regulations to reflect the new reality are needed," Lau said, according to the report.

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JULY 14, 2016

Google is coming under fire by the European Union, which contends the Internet giant is abusing its power in the digital advertising space. “Google has come up with many innovative products that have made a difference to our lives. It means consumers may not see the most relevant results to their search queries.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

tech firms’ dominance across online platforms, and the collection and use of data. The European Union is examining the creation of a single data market that would reportedly challenge tech firms such as Google and Facebook, as Reuters reported. In Europe, another regulatory salvo may be aimed at U.S.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Breton said he’ll decide by the end of the year if he wants to adopt a set of stringent rules as a way for the EU to set out ironclad responsibilities for social media platforms and regulate them. He said that Facebook had failed to mention its own market dominance and that its rules had not set up any responsibilities.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Large Chinese companies, including Alibaba and rivals Tencent , food delivery giant Meituan and retailer JD.com , have lost almost $200 billion in Hong Kong since regulators announced last week that they were investigating Alibaba's reported monopolistic practices, according to Bloomberg. Regulators on Sunday (Dec.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

Google Raises Specter of Making Search Inaccessible in Australia. Last week, Google put forward the possibility that it would make its search engine inaccessible in Australia in the event that the government proceeds with proposals to force Big Tech to provide payment for news, CBC reported.

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MARCH 15, 2018

New rules loom in the European Union for tech giants like Apple , Amazon and Google, Reuters reported. The European Commission is at work on a new proposal that aims to shape how online platforms — spanning eCommerce and mobile apps — rank search results.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

European regulators this week continued to show their love, respect and admiration for U.S.-based Assuming that caught your attention, here’s the real story: It’s shaping up as a busy week for regulators in Europe (including Turkey, which for purposes of this article, qualifies as Europe). Google Fine. Speaking of Google ….

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Google’s $2.1 Privacy advocates and politicians have asked regulators to block the deal, fearing Google will tap Fitbit’s data to launch a healthcare service. They said that Google should not be handed “yet another way to track our every move.”. Fitbit health and wellness data will not be used for Google ads.

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MARCH 13, 2019

Google has expanded its users’ choice of search products, with pro-privacy rival DuckDuckGo benefiting the most. According to reports , Google has “quietly” updated its default search engine lists, expanding them to include pro-privacy search engines in 60 markets around the world.

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AUGUST 23, 2018

Sure, the social media platform said it lost one million active users from Europe after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect on May 25, tightening privacy regulations and making it more difficult for online advertisers to target consumers. Google, too, should weather the storm in pretty good shape.

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MAY 22, 2019

European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said measures put in place for Google to boost competition in online shopping results appear to be working, according to a report by Reuters. The European Commission slapped Google with a fine of 2.4 billion euros ($2.7

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

This edition includes news about Facebook’s new payments push, Amazon’s new robotics plan and why Google is working more closely with financial institutions. Google Dives Into DDAs. The branding will reflect the financial institutions and not Google. Apple Pay Competition Practices Eyed By EU Regulators.

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AUGUST 20, 2018

The case against them, and the decision it rendered, deviated sharply from the traditional Sherman Act cases that accused companies of using their market power to raise prices to the detriment of the consumer. Regulators didn’t destroy A&P in the end. That decision caught many by surprise, including the Hartford brothers.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

increased regulation over content delivered online through platforms may be on the horizon. This past week, Britain’s federal government said its media regulator, known as Ofcom, would be given new oversight to monitor and regulate material posted on the web by companies such as Facebook, Google and Twitter.

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JUNE 6, 2019

British price comparison site Kelkoo is ready to take its complaint against Google to U.S. antitrust regulators. The comments come as Kelkoo and other companies believe that EU efforts to ensure competitive fairness have been inadequate, as it has accused Google of unfairly promoting its own comparison shopping service.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Google is being accused of stealthily handing personal data to advertisers by using hidden web pages, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday (Sept. Such activity violates Google’s own rules while also dodging European Union policy, which requires permission and transparency, a smaller rival web browser told the news outlet.

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JUNE 13, 2019

European Union officials are looking for feedback on Google ’s attempts to shut down two antitrust investigations. Regulators have reportedly sent out screenshots of Google’s box showing three restaurant booking sites, asking various travel companies for their opinions on the sites. billion ($1.7

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JUNE 17, 2019

The OCC held meetings with technology conglomerates Google , PayPal and others about the possibility of bank charters for the firms, reports in American Banker said on Monday (June 16). PayPal and the OCC declined to comment, while Google did not respond to the publication’s requests for comment.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

The president of France, Emmanuel Macron, issued a warning to Big Tech players like Google and Microsoft, saying they need to adhere to European Union (EU) mandates, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday (Jan. The EU wants the tech industry to abide by rules to moderate online content and constrain the market power of Big Tech players. .

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

Google has handed over a second report to European Union (EU) antitrust regulators, detailing its proposal to allow more shopping rivals to bid for ads on top of its search page. The ruling found that Google does not apply its own shopping service to its algorithm, which ranks search results on quality and relevance to the user.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

24 with European Union (EU) Digital Head Margrethe Vestager to discuss rules in the Digital Services Act (DSA) and Digital Markets Act (DMA). The DSA mandates the transparency of algorithms and proposes new rules surrounding content moderation and online advertising. American Big Tech companies will have a virtual sit-down on Nov.

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JUNE 14, 2019

eCommerce market is far below previous projections. online sales to 37.7 The downward revision of Amazon’s market share comes as the eCommerce giant finds itself, along with Facebook and Google, in the cross-hairs of regulators who believe they’ve grown too large, too powerful and very much in need of antitrust oversight.

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