Happy Furahi Day! Thank you for sharing the piece! "One big difference in U.S. antitrust law is that the ultimate barometer of whether something is illegal is whether it negatively affects the consumer—for example, by raising the price of a product or service. That would make it difficult to prosecute Google for antitrust behavior, since the vast majority of its products are free. The European Union, however, doesn’t need to make that argument—it’s free to find Google’s behavior illegal regardless of what it costs." ISOC KE during the next Internet Governance Forum, the Competition Authority would be a great guest to "demystify this Anti-Trust, Dominance terms and practical application. Today's local tech start-up may be less concerned, however, it is the next global tech giant soon. Blessed day. Regards/Wangari --- Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - "Being of the Light, We are Restored Through Faith in Mind, Body and Spirit; We Manifest The Kingdom of God on Earth". -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 22/4/16, Ali Hussein via isoc <isoc@lists.my.co.ke> wrote: Subject: [isoc_ke] EU hits Google with Anti-Trust complaint To: kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke, ISOC@lists.my.co.ke Date: Friday, 22 April, 2016, 3:31 Listers This should be interesting. EU hits Google EU officials say Google forces phone makers and carriers to install its services. For many Android users, one of the appealing things about Google’s mobile operating system is that it is an open ecosystem—anyone can install or modify it, since it is open source, and users can run any apps they want, something they can’t do on Apple’s iOS devices. But the European Union doesn’t see it that way. To the EU, Android is a just tool that Google uses to expand its mobile and search monopolies.Read on:- http://fortune.com/2016/04/21/eu-google-antitrust/Ali HusseinPrincipalHussein & Associates+254 0713 601113 / 0770906375 Twitter: @AliHKassimSkype: abu-jomoLinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi Sent from my iPad -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ isoc mailing list isoc@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/isoc