News Corp. Adds to Google Antitrust Woes on Android, Search
- Media companies file new complaint over Google search and news
- EU is said to speed up separate antitrust probe into Android
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Google’s antitrust woes in the European Union are growing, as News Corp. filed a new complaint against the legality of the U.S. tech giant’s search and news services at the same time as EU regulators are preparing a formal complaint on its Android mobile-phone operating system.
The complaint by the owner of the Times of London and the Sun papers argues that Google keeps users within its own services by displaying enough news content to deter people clicking through to the publishers’ sites that produced it -- meaning they lose potential ad revenue. Separately, the EU may be gearing up to send Google a statement of objections, laying out its antitrust concerns, in the Android probe.