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• @vestager Margrethe Vestager on x

  .@Google collects data, sells ad space & intermediates at almost all levels of the online display advertising supply chain. We are concerned that @Google has made it harder for rivals to compete in the #AdTech market. Today, we open an investigation More: https://ec.europa.eu/...

• @jimcramer Jim Cramer on x

  check please! https://twitter.com/...

• @squawkstreet @squawkstreet on x

  The European Union has opened a formal antitrust probe of Google's digital ad practices, looking into allegations the Alphabet unit violated EU rules. @jimcramer: People don't regard them as the enemy. @CNBC $GOOGL https://twitter.com/...

• @parmy Parmy Olson on x

  Google has been settling some other similar cases with regulators in the U.K. and France, which looked specifically at Google's ad tech tools. The EU is also looking at whether Google's ad exchange and ad buying tools give an unfair advantage to each other.

• @karlbode Karl Bode on x

  now comes the parade of thinly-veiled lobbying groups with names like “American Sunshine And Innovation Alliance,” interwoven with enough semi-credible voices to give them the faint air of legitimacy https://gizmodo.com/...

• @arianna_podesta Arianna Podest on x

  🇪🇺@EU_Commission opened #EUAntitrust investigation on whether Google distorts competition by restricting access by 3rd parties to user data for advertising purposes on websites & apps, reserving this for own online display advertising technology services https://ec.europa.eu/...

• @danjsalt Dan Salt on x

  GDPR actually enhanced Googles position with ADtech as one of the few companies that both collects and uses data Slow handclap https://twitter.com/...

• @matthewstoller Matt Stoller on x

  The EU antitrust enforcers have been at it for a decade, with zero impact on big tech. Everything @vestager does fails because she accepts these are innovative tech firms and need a light touch. She won't govern. https://twitter.com/...

• @peitz_martin Martin Peitz on x

  EC investigating Google in the ad tech market. This happens shortly after a fine being imposed on Google by the French competition authority @Adlc_. A lot of action on the Old Continent. 1/3 https://twitter.com/...

• @eu_commission European Commission on x

  We have opened an investigation into possible anticompetitive conduct by Google in the online advertising technology sector. It will examine whether Google is restricting access by third parties to user data for advertising purposes on websites and apps: https://europa.eu/!qJt7Hx…

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  they're going to need a bigger boat. Here comes the European Commission, too. https://ec.europa.eu/... https://twitter.com/...

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  Bam. And there it is. “Competition law and data protection laws must work hand in hand to ensure that display advertising markets operate on a level playing field in which all market participants protect user privacy in the same manner.” https://ec.europa.eu/...

• @sarafischer Sara Fischer on x

  NEW: EU launches antitrust investigation into Google's ad tech practices, the latest in a long list of probes into Google's biz — 2017 Google fined $2.7 billion for shopping — 2018 Google fined $5 billion for Android — 2019 Google fine $1.7 billion for ads https://www.axios.com/.…

• @parmy Parmy Olson on x

  Google's big new antitrust case in Europe is its first in three years. The EU previously issued three antitrust decisions against Google, backed by $9 billion in fines, between 2015 and 2018. https://www.wsj.com/...?

• @parmy Parmy Olson on x

  This case is all about Google's role in the sprawling ad-tech business. “We are concerned that Google has made it harder for rival online advertising services to compete in the so-called ad tech stack,” according to EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager.

• @markscott82 Mark Scott on x

  @Google @EU_Commission Interestingly, Brussels is looking at Google's recent push to stop third-party advertisers from accessing ppl's data while still collecting that data for itself. More on that here https://www.politico.eu/...

• @satariano Adam Satariano on x

  Just released: Google is facing an antitrust investigation from the European Commission over digital advertising practices. Apple, Amazon and Facebook are also under investigation for violating competition laws. https://ec.europa.eu/...