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Google Inc. is back under U.S. antitrust scrutiny as officials ask whether the tech giant stifled competitors' access to its Android mobile-operating system, said two people familiar with the matter.The Federal Trade Commission reached an agreement with the Justice Department to spearhead an investigation of Googleâs Android business, the people said. FTC officials have met with technology company representatives who say Google gives priority to its own services on the Android platform, while restricting others, added the people, who asked for anonymity because the matter is confidential.We all know who these "technology company representatives" are. Remember "Fair"search?That being said, the more investigations into technology giants, the better.
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Google is back under U.S. antitrust scrutiny as officials ask whether the tech giant stifled competitors’ access to its Android mobile-operating system, said two people familiar with the matter.
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by Cyrus Farivar from Ars Technica - All content on (#NJJA)
Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources, says FTC keeping a close eye.
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by Sam Thielman in New York from Technology | The Guardian on (#NJF0)
Federal Trade Commission will see if operating system has been privileging its products over competitors’ in second inquiry into Google in less than three yearsFor the second time in less than three years, Google is under investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over antitrust concerns, Bloomberg reported Friday morning.The inquiry will look into whether the company’s Android operating system has violated antitrust laws by privileging its own products and services over its competitors’ to an untenable degree, according to the Bloomberg report, which cited competing tech company executives who had complained about Google to the commission. Continue reading...
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by Harish Jonnalagadda from Android Central RSS Feed on (#MGC5)
Earlier this year, Russia's local search engine Yandex filed a complaint with the country's privacy watchdog, the Federal Antimonopoly Service, over the apps Google pre-installed on Android. The regulator has concluded its investigation, finding Google guilty of "abusing its dominant market position."
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As we've been discussing, the two big music collection societies in the US, ASCAP and BMI, are desperately fighting to get the DOJ to alter (or end entirely) the "consent agreement" that they operate under. The consent agreement, in various forms, has been in place for decades, after the DOJ properly recognized that in licensing songwriters' and publishers' public performance rights, they had something of a monopoly. And monopolies can be dangerous when abused. Thus the consent decree to keep the organizations in line. However, both are really angry about this, in large part because they believe that without the consent decree, they could create a world in which they could force everyone to have to pay much higher fees (you can see some of how they tried to collude with publishers to jack up rates to Pandora).
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