Germany's Federal Cartel Initiates Antitrust Probe Against Google

May 25, 2021 9:34 AM | 1 min read |

Germany’s Federal Cartel launched an investigation to gauge possible unfair market dominance by Google Germany, Google Ireland, and its parent company Alphabet Inc GOOG GOOGL, Reuters reports.
The cartel will also investigate whether the users had enough choice regarding how the company used their data.
Google’s multiple digital services, including Google search engine, YouTube, Google Maps, the Android operating system, or the Chrome browser, broke its peers’ competitive backbone, Bloomberg reports.
The cartel is also investigating the activities of Facebook Inc FB and Amazon.com Inc AMZN in multiple digital sectors.
Hamburg’s (Germany) privacy authority head recently barred Facebook from WhatsApp user data collection for three months.
Price action: GOOG shares are up by 0.82% at $2,406.30 on the last check Tuesday.

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