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Google Removes Display of Its Shopping Unit in Turkey After the Remedy Phase of the Turkish Competition Authority’s (TCA) Google Shopping Decision Gets Stuck

Bahadir Balki, Erdem Aktekin (ACTECON)/September 17, 2020September 17, 2020 /1 Comment

On 29th of July, Google announced[1] that starting from 10th of August, it will be removing shopping ads (or “the Shopping Unit” as referred by the TCA as well as by the EU Commission) from its search pages in Turkey. According to the tech giant, the decision was taken because of the uncertainties surrounding the…

Abuse of dominance, Google, India

Competition Commission of India strikes another blow to Google for abuse of dominant position

Mohit Agarwal (Gujarat National Law University)/July 18, 2019July 16, 2019 /Leave a comment

On 16th April 2019, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) ordered a probe against the multinational technology company, Google, for abusing its dominant position in clear violation of Section 4 of the (Indian) Competition Act, 2002 (‘Act’).[1] The present case was filed under Section 19(1)(a) of the Act, alleging Google LLC and Google India Private…