Google Targeted as German Attack on Silicon Valley Gathers Pace
- Cartel office has opened multiple probes in recent weeks
- Regulator is wielding new powers to take on U.S. tech giants
A man using a mobile phone walks past Google offices in New York.
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Google’s news service became the latest target of an almost weekly assault on U.S. tech giants by Germany’s antitrust chief Andreas Mundt.
The Google News Showcase will be examined by the Federal Cartel Office to check if Google’s terms offer “unreasonable conditions” to publishers involved and whether they hamper them using extra copyright introduced under a law passed last month, the German authority said in a statement on Friday.