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Justice Files to Halt Anheuser-Busch Modelo Deal Acquisition would substantially lessen competition and raise prices

Budweiser may be the king of beers, but the U.S. Department of Justice is looking to confine the kingdom. The DOJ filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today to halt Anheuser-Busch…

January 31, 2013, 4:38 PM EST

FTC Finally Closes Google Investigations Tech giant agrees to change some business practices

Ending weeks of speculation and rumor, the Federal Trade Commission today finally closed its nearly two-year antitrust investigation into Google that will no doubt leave Google's competitors unsatisfied. Under a consent…

January 3, 2013, 2:20 PM EST

Reports: FTC to Close Google Probe Thursday No enforcement action, just promises

Microsoft and other Google competitors won't be happy that the Federal Trade Commission is set to close its two-year antitrust investigation into Google without taking enforcement against the search engine…

January 3, 2013, 9:14 AM EST

Microsoft to FTC: Take Antitrust Action Against Google Blog is latest twist in ongoing feud

There's no love lost between Microsoft and Google. Fierce competitors, the two often snipe at each other in public. In the latest twist to the ongoing feud, Microsoft's vp and…

January 2, 2013, 6:10 PM EST

FTC Nominee Grilled by Senate Panel Wright said he'd recuse himself from Google case

If the Senate clears his nomination for the Federal Trade Commission, Joshua Wright will sit out the agency's investigation into Google. In response to some tough questioning Tuesday from several Senate…

December 4, 2012, 7:26 PM EST

FTC's Google Case Creates Strange Bedfellows In Congress Dems and GOP warn FTC not to overstep authority

As the Federal Trade Commission moves closer to a decision about whether it will pull the trigger on its two antitrust investigations of Google, some Congressional leaders are coming to…

November 20, 2012, 3:15 PM EST

Antitrust Senator Raises Concerns Over Verizon Cable Deals Stops short of recommending regulators block them

Critics of Verizon Wireless' $3.9 billion spectrum purchase and marketing and joint venture deals with the nation's largest cable companies may have just won a powerful ally in their fight…

May 24, 2012, 12:46 PM EDT

EU Antitrust Officials Seek Remedies From Google Google has weeks to respond to EU or face proceedings

The European Union Monday put more pressure on Google to come up with "remedies" to its concerns that Google may be abusing its market power. In a letter to Larry…

May 21, 2012, 3:03 PM EDT

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt
Google's Schmidt Gets Off Easy in Senate Testimony Despite hostile testimony from competitors, hearing mostly friendly

WASHINGTON—Google chairman Eric Schmidt may never list Wednesday as one of the favorite days of his life, but, really, it could have been much worse. Yes, he had to face…

September 21, 2011, 5:39 PM EDT

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