{"id":16097,"date":"2010-11-30T13:03:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T18:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=16097"},"modified":"2010-11-30T13:03:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T18:03:43","slug":"google-under-eu-investigation-poised-to-buy-groupon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2010\/11\/30\/google-under-eu-investigation-poised-to-buy-groupon\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Under EU Investigation; Poised to Buy Groupon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Market News Video &#8211; Googles (GOOG) advertising business practices being investigated by the  European Commission, the European Unions antitrust regulators announced  today. The Commission will probe whether Google imposes exclusivity  obligations on its advertising partners, including whether Google  prohibited them from placing competitor ads on their sites, as well as  whether its practices blocked computer and software vendors from  competing search tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Market News Video &#8211; Googles (GOOG) advertising business practices being investigated by the European Commission, the European Unions antitrust regulators announced today. The Commission will probe whether Google imposes exclusivity obligations on its advertising partners, including whether Google prohibited them from placing competitor ads on their sites, as well as whether its practices blocked computer &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2010\/11\/30\/google-under-eu-investigation-poised-to-buy-groupon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Under EU Investigation; Poised to Buy Groupon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}