Lynne Kiesling For the past year and a half the Federal Trade Commission has been investigating the potential anti-competitive effects of Google’s search-based business model. The European Union has also been pursuing antitrust complaints against Google. The main accusation is Google search bias — Google’s algorithm prioritizes links both to paid advertisers (which are shaded …
Lynne Kiesling Yesterday Google announced its purchase of Motorola Mobility, the device manufacturing half of the former Motorola. Today’s Wall Street Journal has a front page full of stories about this move, including “Bid Comes Amid Tougher Scrutiny” (You know how to read this even though it’s subscriber-only, right? Do a search at a news …
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Michael Giberson First Google PowerMeter, then Google.org invests in renewable power R&D and now a Google entity – Google Energy LLC – files at FERC to become a wholesale power marketer. What’s going on? At the EU Energy Policy Blog, Fereidoon Sioshansi examines “Power Marketer Google“: Google has a habit of surprising its competitors. The …
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