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Is history repeating itself with Google antitrust saga?
Is this how it begins? A handful of small companies crushed by a technology giant file David v. Goliath unfair competition lawsuits. A leading Silicon Valley antitrust expert lends his legal brains to the seemingly hopeless cause. Soon, a company that thinks it is all powerful and can do no wrong is forced to face up to the reality that it does not play well with others.
Continue reading...GSA for GSA
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
In a serendipitous synchronicity, the Google Search Appliance (GSA) has debuted as the new search engine on the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) web site. Recently a box popped up on an obscure GSA web page titled “Transparency” which reveals that Google has taken over the search spot at the agency.
Continue reading...Jennifer Stoddart Blazes a Global Trail for Privacy Protection
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
"She has taken the lead in sounding the privacy alarm," said John Simpson, a consumer advocate with Consumer Watchdog in Santa Monica, Calif.
Continue reading...Watchdog Calls for Google Break-Up; Urges DoJ to Investigate
Friday, April 23, 2010
Consumer Watchdog said it welcomed the ongoing investigation into Google Books by the DoJ, and the Federal Trade Commission's probe into the AdMob buy, but said it was: "past time to act against Google’s monopolistic and pervasive power over the entire Internet".
Continue reading...Internet Consumer Watchdog Asks DOJ to Break Google into Smaller Companies
Thursday, April 22, 2010
One watchdog group called Consumer Watchdog has asked the DOJ this week to break Google into smaller companies to prevent a monopoly situation along the lines of Microsoft. John M. Simpson from Consumer Watchdog is the person who made the request to the DOJ and he argues that the DOJ’s actions against Google’s attempts at buying other advertising firms and scanning books isn’t enough to ensure the search giant doesn’t turn into a monopoly.
Continue reading...Group Urges Google Breakup
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Google's treatment of rivals "warrants a full-blown investigation," John Simpson of Consumer Watchdog said in Washington. Breaking up the company "should be on the table," he said.
Continue reading...Consumer Watchdog Asks DoJ to Break Up Google
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
An independent consumer group will today call on the Department of Justice to consider breaking Google up because of uncompetitive practices. Consumer Watchdog says the $23 billion corporation, which holds more than 70 percent of the search market, has a stranglehold on the market.
Continue reading...Google Faces Antitrust Questions, More Privacy Concerns
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Privacy advocates. The Federal Trade Commission. The Chinese government. They've all been on Google's back recently. And it seems the company is now on Consumer Watchdog's blacklist as well. The Santa Monica, Calif.-based consumer advocacy group is lobbying the U.S. Department of Justice to begin an antitrust investigation into the search giant. In fact, the argument has also been made that the company may need to be broken up.
Continue reading...Google Spent $1.3 Million on Lobbying, What Are They Buying?
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization, revealed today that Google upped its spending on Washington lobbyists by a mammoth 57% from the same period last year. Lobbying disclosure forms filed with the Senate Office of Public Affairs show that the firm handed over $1.3 million in the first quarter of 2010, compared with $880,000 in 2009.
Continue reading...Consumer Group Calls for Antitrust Investigation of Google
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
The U.S. Department of Justice should launch a broad antitrust investigation into Google's search and advertising practices and consider a wide array of penalties, including possibly breaking the company up, a consumer group said Wednesday. Consumer Watchdog, along with a mobile entrepreneur and two lawyers representing Google rivals, all called on the DOJ to initiate an antitrust investigation focusing on a number of issues, including Google's marriage of search results to advertising and its book search service.
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
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