ALERT: UNILATERAL PRACTICE - ABUSE OF DOMINANT POSITION - EXPLOITATION ABUSE - PRICE TRANSPARENCY

Internet : The French Competition Authority suspects the leading search engine operator of exploitation abuse in suspending accounts used to display advertisments (Google/Gibmedia)

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*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Competition Authority, 9 September 2015, Decision No. 15-D-13 (Google/Gibmedia) By Decision No. 15-D-13 of 9 September 2015The Competition Authority, having received a complaint and a request for interim measures from a publisher of paid weather, business data and directory enquiries websites challenging the way in which Google suspended its Adwords account in January 2015, is continuing to investigate the merits of the case without taking urgent measures against Google. At first glance, the

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