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15/04/2015

EU to set out Google antitrust case

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The EU prepares to set out its case against Google following a lengthy competition probe.

The EU prepares to outline the action it will take against Google, which it has accused of anti-competitive behaviour. Plus, a row over net neutrality breaks out in India.

The EU prepares to outline the action it plans to take against Google over alleged anti-competitive behaviour. The announcement, expected on Wednesday, follows a five-year investigation into claims Google favours its own products in search engine results. We hear from the chief executive of Hot Maps, one of the complainants in the case, and an industry expert from New York about the options open to European regulators. 

India's biggest online retailer, Flipkart, bows to social media pressure and pulls out of a deal with phone network Airtel, which would have let customers browse its site for free, with Flipkart picking up their internet data costs. Critics said this went against net neutrality.

Catherine Yeung, of Fidelity Worldwide Investments, looks ahead to the latest Chinese economic growth figures, and our other guest on the programme - Mark Miller, from Marketplace radio in Los Angeles - talks us through the annual tax return deadline in the US, and why so many are prepared to overpay. 

Plus, the insatiable need for sleep in China - any time, any place.

Image: Google's sign at their Brussels office. Credit: Getty

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