The company has been repeatedly sued by smaller competitors for anticompetitive practices and, in one case, for hacking.
Google has denied any anticompetitive practices and has repeatedly said it creates its services to benefit users, rather than other websites.
David Balto, a former policy director for the Federal Trade Commission, now in private practice, says that the legal definition of anticompetitive practices has changed since 1998.
The tool the Chinese government used to discipline Unilever on Friday was the country's Price Law, a regulation that limits public commentary about future prices to avoid anticompetitive practices, including price fixing.
The expert also compared prices in Philadelphia to other markets to show they were excessive, but his calculations included the effects of the three other allegedly anticompetitive practices the court refused to consider.
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European regulators have begun an inquiry into possible antitrust and anticompetitive practices by the Blu-ray Disc Association as it relates to agreements and restrictions on producing content for Blu-ray and its competing high-definition format, HD DVD.
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It took the position that the marketplace, not government regulators or courts, provides the ideal check on anticompetitive business practices.
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"New York State's decision, based on its findings to date, to open a formal investigation of Intel's anticompetitive business practices is good news for computer buyers in New York and throughout the United States, " said Tom McCoy, AMD's top lawyer.
In March it agreed to a ruling by Japan's fair trade commission to settle a dispute over anticompetitive sales practices. (Intel denies any unlawful conduct.) The European Union and the Korean Fair Trade Commission are now investigating Intel on similar charges.
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