{"id":27938,"date":"2012-12-05T15:59:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T13:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=27938"},"modified":"2012-12-05T16:00:12","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T14:00:12","slug":"no-google-antitrust-decision-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/27938\/no-google-antitrust-decision-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"No Google antitrust decision yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EU antitrust regulators have not yet made a decision in their case against Google and talks are proceeding with the Internet search firm to resolve complaints that it used its clout to block rivals, the EU&#8217;s competition chief said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are in the process of conversation with Google to try to reach a settlement, but we are not there yet,&#8221; EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia told a news conference on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Almunia also said a market test of concessions proposed by U.S.-based UPS to allay regulatory worries over its proposed takeover of Dutch peer TNT showed competitors and third parties were not satisfied with the offer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have come back to the parties, informing them of some of our concerns, given the result of the market test. They are in conversation with the case team, I am following very, very closely this conversation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\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>EU antitrust regulators have not yet made a decision in their case against Google and talks are proceeding with the Internet search firm to resolve complaints that it used its clout to block rivals, the EU&#8217;s competition chief said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":24491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,793,4781,53],"class_list":["post-27938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-antitrust","tag-eu-regulators","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27938","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=27938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27940,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27938\/revisions\/27940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}