Google CEO Sundar Pichai Heading to Brussels For Antitrust Talks: Source
AFP, SAN FRANCISCO: Google chief executive Sundar Pichai will meet next week in Brussels with the European Union's competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, a source familiar with the matter said Saturday.
European competition officials have been investigating the US tech giant for years over alleged monopolistic practices involving its search engines, but any resolution has been elusive.
Three successive proposals by Google for an amicable settlement have been rejected.
Vestager last year sent a "statement of objections," saying Google had diverted traffic from rival price-comparison services like Kelkoo, which operates in several European countries, to favor its own comparison shopping service.
Google responded in late August that Brussels's findings were "wrong," and bas...