{"id":20259,"date":"2019-11-15T08:29:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T16:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20259"},"modified":"2019-11-15T08:29:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T16:29:23","slug":"state-antitrust-investigation-into-google-expands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20259","title":{"rendered":"State antitrust investigation into Google expands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The group of 50 attorneys general investigating Google&#8217;s market dominance will also probe the company&#8217;s search and Android businesses, expanding their investigation,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qfshyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprpghhsg_sjkbmmvrvtbmsvssmkcs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qfshyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprpghhsg_sjkbmmvrvtbmsvssmkcs.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1573920816729000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFypRrhxsEkBrKt229Ugf1ZqboXLw\">according to CNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) first announced the investigation &#8212; launched alongside nearly every state attorney general in the country &#8212; he said the focus was Google&#8217;s online advertising business. But as it has progressed, according to CNBC, the attorneys general have decided some states will also look into Google search and Android, the company&#8217;s mobile operating system.<\/p>\n<p>The states will soon issue civil investigative demands (CIDs) &#8212; a kind of subpoena &#8212; to obtain documents for the expanded probe, sources familiar with the matter told CNBC. They have already requested documents about Google&#8217;s ad business.<\/p>\n<p>After the investigation was first announced earlier this year, Paxton said in a statement, &#8220;At this point, the multistate investigation is focused solely on online advertising; however, as always, the facts we discover as the investigation progresses will determine where the investigation ultimately leads.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The group of 50 attorneys general&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20260,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20259\/revisions\/20260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}