Political repercussions on Google antitrust decision

(April 1, 2015) -- The stunning report in The Wall Street Journal that the Federal Trade Commission’s staff had recommended in 2012 that the commission sue Google for anticompetitive practices and abusing its dominant position has resurrected a hot debate over the FTC’s decision not to take the company to court. A key Senate subcommittee, meanwhile, has said it plans to investigate the agency’s handling of the Google investigation and its inadvertent release of a staff report on it....

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