By Ishbel Macleod

The European Commission is set to reopen its four-year antitrust investigation into Google’s search and advertising business following “very, very negative” responses.

Announcing the move to Bloomberg, Joaquin Almunia, the EC’s antitrust chief, said that he is “trying to extract” solutions from Google to arguments that have been put forward.

He said: “In this investigation, we received a lot of complaints. We have been trying to obtain from Google proposals to overcome the difficulties and the concerns. Now with the last version of proposals we came back to the complainants. The complainants sent us replies during the summer. Some of these replies Read full story ›

Source: The Drum