{"id":24684,"date":"2012-10-20T09:22:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T07:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=24684"},"modified":"2012-10-20T09:30:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T07:30:13","slug":"google-mulls-ftc-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/24684\/google-mulls-ftc-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Google mulls FTC settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Inc is considering a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over potential claims it broke antitrust law in its handling of patents for mobile devices, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute has to do with whether Google&#8217;s Motorola Mobility unit lived up to licensing commitments made after its patents were adopted as industry standards.<\/p>\n<p>At issue is whether Google improperly refused to license patents to some mobile rivals and attempted to gain court injunctions to stop sales of its competitors&#8217; products.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/24488\/is-google-running-out-of-steam\/\"><strong>Is Google running out of steam?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/24371\/google-has-4-months-to-change-privacy-policy\/\"><strong>Google has 4 months to change privacy policy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/24037\/google-vs-apple-a-defining-fight\/\"><strong>Google vs Apple a \u201cdefining fight\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/23722\/googles-motorola-beats-microsoft-in-patent-case\/\">Google\u2019s Motorola beats Microsoft in patent case<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/23650\/google-warns-of-further-restructuring-at-motorola-mobility\/\"><strong>Google warns of further restructuring at Motorola Mobility<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/23601\/google-denied-summary-judgement-in-patent-dispute\/\"><strong>Google denied summary judgement in patent dispute<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Inc is considering a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over potential claims it broke antitrust law in its handling of patents for mobile devices, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,793,2979,53,217],"class_list":["post-24684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-antitrust","tag-ftc","tag-google","tag-settlement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24688,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24684\/revisions\/24688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}