European periodical and online publishers have urged the European Commission to reject Google’s latest proposal to settle an antitrust case.The commitments proposed by Google would not stop the company’s “abusive promotion of its own services,” the publishers said in their response, sent to the Commission and published online Thursday.“On the contrary, accepting these commitments would inflict additional harm to competition, innovation and consumer choice as they are based on an ineffective and harmful concept. They will secure Google dominance in any market it wishes to enter and legalize its anti-competitive conduct,” the publishers said in their statement. Attached to the statement is a list of more than 30 European associations of newspaper, magazine and online publishers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Continue reading at 'PC World'
[ PC World | 2014-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]