European Commission Moving Toward Google Antitrust Complaint

Europe’s competition regulator is preparing to move against Google Inc. in the next few weeks, a person familiar with the matter said, setting the stage for charges against the U.S. Internet-search giant in a five-year-old investigation that has stalled three times and sparked a political firestorm. The European Commission, the European Union’s top antitrust authority, has been asking companies that filed complaints against Google for permission to publish some information they previously submitted confidentially, according to several people familiar with the requests.