Google Likely to Face Charges in Europe for Antitrust Violations
Google Inc. has been told it will face charges by the European Union that it violated antitrust rules, people with knowledge of the matter said.
A decision will probably be announced this week, said the people, who asked not to be identified since the matter isn’t public.
Google and rivals are preparing for a decision after more than four years of regulatory scrutiny, raising the prospects of fines and constraints on how it delivers internet search. Under the new leadership of Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, the EU stepped up the probe into Google in December, when regulators sought additional information from rivals involved in internet maps, travel and other services. Google gets about one-third of its revenue from the region.
