The European antitrust is preparing to reopen the case against Google. According to the Wall Street Journal European authorities they would be to impeach the Mountain View giant under investigation for abuse of dominant position is five years old and already stopped three times, including thousands of controversy. The European Commission, according to the source of the American newspaper, is asking all those who have been accusations against Google in confidence permission to publish their statements. A clear signal that you are going to take action against the American search engine. Also because Lucia Caudet, spokesman for the EU Commission confirms: “The EU antitrust investigation is ongoing. We do not comment on ongoing investigations.” The best known previous is what he saw the European antitrust proceeding against Microsoft, which had to pay a fine of nearly € 2 billion. In the case of Google sanction European can get up to 10% of sales last year (in 2014 $ 66 billion). Obviously, the procedure may stop before you get to a penalty or the parties may reach an agreement. 90% of web searches in Europe are made through Google. The search engine is accused of change to their advantage the results of research, which would penalize opponents. The antitrust EU has also put the spotlight on the agreements that another big Californian, Apple, is tightening with record companies, ahead of the launch of its new music streaming service. This was reported by the Financial Times , citing unnamed sources that the European Commission has delivered questionnaires to several record companies, with the aim of gathering information. According to the financial daily, it is a step that is usually triggered as a result of claims by operators. The future of music streaming service Apple will enter into competition with those of Spotify, Deezer and Google.
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