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EU gets ready to stuff Oracle’s turkey
Despite signs that the over-heated rhetoric is cooling down a bit, it’s too soon to predict a compromise in the transatlantic falling-out over Oracle’s plan to buy Sun. European competition...
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Brussels is not going to eat all the cookies after all
“Don’t panic” – the words on the cover of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – should also be emblazoned on the front page of the EU telecoms package, which was voted through on Tuesday. This update...
View ArticleGoogle’s EU troubles play into Microsoft’s hands
It was only a matter of time before Brussels began looking at an antitrust complaint against Google. Murmurings of discontent about the dominant search engine have been going on for several years now,...
View ArticleEU’s 120 questions on Google
If Googlers were in any doubt of the seriousness of the European Union’s investigation into the search engine’s business practices, the detailed questionnaire sent to advertising agencies this week...
View ArticleGoogle gives ground in Brussels – but how much?
First, for Google’s opponents, let’s look on the bright side. The company’s tentative deal with European regulators in April to head off a formal anti-trust complaint was, according to critics, worse...
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Google, Almunia and the long march to settlement
The three-year Brussels probe into Google’s search business seems to be meandering towards a thundering anticlimax. With every legal twist, revised settlement offer and procedural shuffle, the case is...
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