[kictanet] [isoc_ke] EU hits Google with Anti-Trust complaint

[WANGARI KABIRU]

Happy Furahi Day!

Thank you for sharing the piece!

"One big difference in U.S. antitrust law is that the ultimate barometer of whether something is illegal is whether it negatively affects the consumer—for example, by raising the price of a product or service. That would make it difficult to prosecute Google for antitrust behavior, since the vast majority of its products are free. The European Union, however, doesn’t need to make that argument—it’s free to find Google’s behavior illegal regardless of what it costs."

ISOC KE during the next Internet Governance Forum, the Competition Authority would be a great guest to "demystify this Anti-Trust, Dominance terms and practical application. 

Today's local tech start-up may be less concerned, however, it is the next global tech giant soon.

Blessed day.

Regards/Wangari

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On Fri, 22/4/16, Ali Hussein via isoc <isoc at lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

 Subject: [isoc_ke] EU hits Google with Anti-Trust complaint
 To: kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke, ISOC at lists.my.co.ke
 Date: Friday, 22 April, 2016, 3:31
 
 Listers
 This should be interesting. 
 EU hits Google
 EU officials
  say Google forces phone makers and carriers to
 install its services.
 For many Android
 users, one of the appealing things about Google’s mobile
 operating system is that it is an open ecosystem—anyone
 can install or modify it, since it is open source, and users
 can run any apps they want, something they can’t do on
 Apple’s iOS devices. But the European Union doesn’t see
 it that way. To the EU, Android is a just tool that Google
 uses to expand its mobile and search
 monopolies.Read on:-
 http://fortune.com/2016/04/21/eu-google-antitrust/Ali HusseinPrincipalHussein & Associates+254 0713
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