News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:EU hits Google with second antitrust charge by JoshTriplett on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @11:06AM (#11534925)
That also raises additional questions: there's a process and a set of rules for enforcing such a ruling against a company that a government actually has jurisdiction over (and thus must follow all the operational rules of a "native" company), and a different process and different rules for deciding that an entirely foreign company (with no nexus in the jurisdiction to enforce against) has acted so egregiously that their product should be blocked from importing.

Antitrust concerns commonly get enforced against companies within the country raising those concerns, but I don't know of any example of antitrust concerns raised by a country against an entirely foreign company and used to block imports of the company's products.

Re:EU hits Google with second antitrust charge by scholia on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @02:37PM (#11536672)
I don't think the EU is too worried about that. It has already imposed very large fines on both Intel and Microsoft, for example.

Like them, Google has lots of staff and offices throughout the EU.... although (not uniquely) it uses various methods to avoid paying taxes ;-)