The European Commissioner in charge of antitrust matters is to meet up with the companies that complained about Google’s behaviour in Europe.
According to a report in Reuters, the new commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, wants to gather more information on the case.
To that end she is to meet companies with a beef – those include Microsoft, Hotmaps, Expedia, TripAdvisor and a gaggle of publishers. They all believe that Google is abusing its dominance in the European sphere.
Late last month the European Parliament voted to break up Google – that vote however lacks teeth.
Vestager has teeth and has the ability to impose swingeing fines on Google if it’s shown it has antitrust tendencies.
Meanwhile, Reuters also reports that a German company is suing Google and Youtube for allegedly infrong a patent for video compression it own.
