{"id":62702,"date":"2012-10-20T09:22:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T07:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=62702"},"modified":"2012-10-20T09:26:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T07:26:28","slug":"google-considers-antitrust-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/62702-google-considers-antitrust-settlement.html","title":{"rendered":"Google considers antitrust settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Inc is considering a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over potential claims it broke antitrust law in its handling of patents for mobile devices, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute has to do with whether Google&#8217;s Motorola Mobility unit lived up to licensing commitments made after its patents were adopted as industry standards.<\/p>\n<p>At issue is whether Google improperly refused to license patents to some mobile rivals and attempted to gain court injunctions to stop sales of its competitors&#8217; products.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Apple special event fuels iPad Mini rumour\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/62392-apple-special-event-fuels-ipad-mini-rumour.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Apple special event fuels iPad Mini rumour<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Google requested to amend privacy policy\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/62410-google-requested-to-amend-privacy-policy.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google requested to amend privacy policy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Internet freedom in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/61062-internet-freedom-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Internet freedom in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Android 4.2 announced late October?\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/61720-android-4-2-announced-late-october.html\">Android 4.2 announced late October?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Inc is considering a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over potential claims it broke antitrust law in its handling of patents for mobile devices, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340871,"featured_media":54469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,12911,9938,167,16320],"class_list":["post-62702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-antitrust","tag-ftc","tag-google","tag-settlement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62702"}],"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\/340871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}