From PC World: The European Commission is still investigating whether Google’s Android operating system and Amazon’s contracts with ebook publishers have broken antitrust rules, its Competition Commissioner said Monday in Amsterdam.
Margrethe Vestager’s remarks come amid reports that the European Commission could formally press charges in the form of a “statement of objections “against Google as early as this week. Her speech suggests that formal charges into both Google’s Android operating system and Amazon could still take some time.
“Of course, our investigations into Google and Amazon are still going on,” Vestager said in the text of a speech set to be delivered Monday at a conference held by the Dutch competition authority. “So I can’t yet say if either of them has broken the rules.”
The European Commission is looking closely at Google’s contracts with phone makers and operators which use the mobile Android operating system. The Commission began its investigation into Android in April last year on the same day it announced formal charges against Google in an investigation that its Internet search in Europe favored its own comparison shopping product.
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