They are seen as a preliminary step in an investigation into suspected anti-competitive practices.
Google has been under some pressure in Washington recently over charges of anti-competitive practices.
It encourages competition and investigates anti-competitive practices in industry, while remedying trading practices which are against consumer interests.
The Commission is investigating three suspected anti-competitive practices in Central and Eastern Europe.
The question for antitrust authorities will be whether Google engaged in anti-competitive practices to extend its monopolization into mobile.
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It does not mean that the search giant is out of the woods on the issue of anti-competitive practices.
"We are looking into certain, possibly anti-competitive practices in the distribution of motion pictures, " said Justice Department spokeswoman Jennifer Rose, declining to comment further.
Local oversight committees will be set up to ward off anti-competitive practices, to the frustration of those who welcomed a drive to cut NHS bureaucracy.
The re-write has focussed on two key areas - under what circumstances contracts can be handed out without competition and to what extent anti-competitive practices are allowed.
Both Visa and MasterCard are under investigation by antitrust authorities on both sides of the Atlantic for alleged anti-competitive practices, such as jointly banning members from issuing American Express cards.
But to do it right you have to first tackle the problems with the supply side, whether those are medical cartels, regional insurance monopolies, anti-competitive practices, or gross protectionism of pharmaceuticals.
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"For almost 10 years, the cartelists carried out the most harmful anti-competitive practices, including price fixing, market sharing, customer allocation, capacity and output coordination and exchanges of commercial sensitive information", the commission said.
Justice Department lawyers and 19 states brought the antitrust case in May 1998, charging that Microsoft used illegal, anti-competitive practices in bundling its Internet Explorer browser with Windows--pushing Netscape from the browser market.
Debate continued on competition in health services and the future role of Monitor, a body which currently regulates foundation trusts, which will be given wider powers under the bill and a duty to prevent anti-competitive practices.
The National Investment Company, known by its French initials, SNI, is said to control Morocco's biggest bank, insurance company, dairy and cooking-oil firms, as well as a large acreage of real estate and is now often castigated for its anti-competitive practices.
But what seems incontestable, and a point on which Mr Schmalensee chooses not to dwell, is that even if Microsoft is acquitted of the charge of anti-competitive behaviour, its practices have already been tamed not just by conditions in its markets but also, directly and indirectly, by the antitrust regulators.
The Commission said some of the firm's "inter-bank fees and related practices may be anti-competitive".
American Airlines, owned by parent AMR Corporation, has picked up an antitrust battle against Sabre Holdings, a global distribution system that provides flight data to third-party ticket agents and websites, saying its business practices are anti-competitive and not in the interest of the consumer.
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On the surface, that reasoning seems to fall within the intended purpose of antitrust laws in the U.S., which is to discourage anti-competitive behavior and unfair business practices.
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Today, the cable provider filed a federal antitrust suit against Viacom over the content distributor's programming bundling practices, which are alleged as anti-competitive.
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