Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Google set to settle with FTC on patent and antitrust complaints, Bloomberg reports

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Google will soon agree to a settlement over patents and a voluntary change to its search practices, potentially bringing a long-running antitrust probe towards resolution, Bloomberg reports. Unnamed sources say that the FTC will soon close its investigation into Google's potentially skewed search results, and that Google will change some of its business practices in accordance with the deal we saw here, which means Google would make it easier to migrate ad campaigns to rival services and reduce the use of reviews from other sites. It will also apparently be settling accusations that it misused its Motorola patent portfolio in an anti-competitive way, though we don't know the details of that settlement.


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