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EU: News Corp CEO to meet antitrust chief

By  |  March 8, 2016

News Corp’s chief executive will meet the EU antitrust chief this week, the company said, with the focus expected to be on the EU’s investigation into whether Internet search engine Google abused its dominance.

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    CEO Robert Thomson will meet European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager on March 10 for the third time, a News Corp spokesman said, without providing details. European Commission spokesman Ricardo Cardoso confirmed the meeting.

    The European Commission opened a case against Google in late 2010, but has yet to decide whether to penalise the company.

    News Corp, controlled by media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the owner of the Wall Street Journal and publisher HarperCollins, is one of more than a dozen companies that have urged the European Commission to act against Google.

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