WCIT 12 earlier this week

In the latest from the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT 2012) in Dubai, the US, Canada, and the UK have refused signing a proposed treaty that would give equal governing rights to world states. As we reported earlier, Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia set out to push for dramatic changes to be made to Internet …

Joaquín Almunia

The FTC”s Jonathan Leibowitz is taking home what seems a clear message to the USA from his European counterpart, Joaquin Almunia; “Search bias just won’t fly over Europe.” On Monday FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz met with European Commission (EC) competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia (at left) to discuss complaints that search giant Google has wrongly leveraged their dominant search position in …

FTC, Google, and the European Commission

Chief regulators meet in Brussels this week to discuss whether or not Google’s competitive strategies are to be litigated, mitigated, penalized, or ignored. The Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Jon Leibowitz, is in Brussels for meetings with his counterpart, Joaquín Almunia, at the European Commission to mull over whether or not Google is unfairly leveraging …