The European Commission is the latest governing body to jump on the Google antitrust dogpile. According to the FT, it’s about to serve Google with a 400-page statement of objections, containing a litany of by-now familiar complaints. More »
It took the FTC a month and a half to look into Microsoft’s proposed purchase of Skype, but finally they’ve given the project a thumb’s up, deciding it doesn’t breach antitrust laws. [Reuters]
According to Bloomberg, Google could be the target of a “broad antitrust investigation” by the US Federal Trade Commission. FTC officials are said to be waiting on a Justice Department ruling that will determine if Google’s attempted acquisition of travel software company ITA is anticompetitive before they proceed with the investigation. Mo money mo problems. [Bloomberg]
Microsoft is getting involved with the European Union’s antitrust investigation regarding Google, mostly regarding the lack of information Google provides search engine competitors for indexing YouTube videos. But even more interesting is Microsoft’s claim that their app is lacking because Google won’t provide the Windows Phone 7 team with the necessary data for the YouTube app that the versions on Android and iOS have. More »
How’s this for the pot calling the kettle black? Microsoft has made an official complaint to the European Commission, claiming that Google is behaving in an anti-competitive way when it comes to search. Namely, their acquisition of YouTube back in 2006 meant that competing search engines were restricted from “properly accessing it for their search results”. More »
