{"id":34174,"date":"2011-09-19T10:04:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T08:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=34174"},"modified":"2011-09-19T10:06:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T08:06:54","slug":"google-prepares-for-senate-grilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/34174-google-prepares-for-senate-grilling.html","title":{"rendered":"Google prepares for Senate grilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> has hired at least 13 lobbying and communications firms since May 2011 in the hopes that they can avoid antitrust action from the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p>Firms include those led by former House Democratic leader Richard Gephardt and the son of Indiana Republican Sen. Richard Lugar.<\/p>\n<p>Company CEO <a title=\"Eric Schmidt\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360166-Eric-Schmidt\">Eric Schmidt<\/a> is preparing to face a U.S. Senate hearing on Wednesday (21 September) where Google\u2019s Internet Search and information gathering dominance will be discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping a close eye on the hearings will be internet rival <a title=\"Microsoft Corp\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft Corp<\/a>, whose former CEO <a title=\"Bill Gates\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360678-Bill-Gates\">Bill Gates<\/a> faced a similar congressional hearing on March 3, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"All things D news site\" href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20110918\/google-girds-for-a-grilling\/?refcat=news\" target=\"_blank\">All things D<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is leaving little to chance as they prepare to face the U.S. Senate over Internet search dominance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":26271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[4870,1627,167,4872],"class_list":["post-34174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-bill-gates","tag-eric-schmidt","tag-google","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34176,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34174\/revisions\/34176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}