The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases (MindTap Course List)
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Chapter 27, Problem 5CT
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Case summary: Website G has become so dominant that country EU has charged website G with an antitrust violation. Website G alleged that it promotes its own comparison-shopping service in general search results. Country EU wanted G to change the display of search results. So, that the relevant services to a query could come first and other comparison-shopping service is not affected.
To find: The companies in country EU which pressured EU to lodge an antitrust complaint against website G.
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