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FTC says regrets release of documents on Google probe

March 25, 2015 creative chairwoman, commissioners, edith-ramirez, federal-trade, julie-brill, picture, street, the-inadvertent

Three U.S. Federal Trade Commission members said on Wednesday they regretted the inadvertent release of part of an agency report about its probe of Google Inc as the company continues to face antitrust scrutiny from European authorities

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Confidential FTC report found Google anticompetitive tactics: WSJ

March 19, 2015 creative agency-settled, antitrust-rules, brussels, bureau-argued, federal-trade, illegally-took, internet, local-bourses, make-it-easier, patriot, reserve, search-engine, search-page, shares-on-local, street

Key staff members at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission were in favor of suing Google Inc for violating antitrust rules before the agency settled its investigation in 2013, according a confidential report cited by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. The report by the staff of the FTC's competition bureau argued that the owner of the world's No