The acquisition of Motorola Mobility by Google may take longer than expected thanks to the anti-trust body of the European Union, which is asking for "more information" about the transaction to the web giant to decide whether to approve the purchase of the company.
The information is the news network "Bloomberg", which states that an EU representative asked for "certain documents which are essential information for evaluating the transaction," without going into details about the questions in the air. A spokesman for the European arm of Google said that the data requested by the committee are "routine". Initially it was hoped that the aquicição arm of Motorola mobile devices were implemented on the mainland on January 10.
In last August Google announced the purchase of Motorola Mobility for $ 12.5 billion, an operation that given their proportion of reach must pass the scrutiny of authorities from the mainland to become official in Europe.
One of the reasons given by Google to purchase the company is adding a large number of patents to its portfolio in an attempt to shield the Android operating system driven by legal battles against Microsoft, Apple and other courts in the world.
However, since the end of 2010 the alleged anti-competitive practices Google make the giant web is targeted EU. A list of competitors, led by Yahoo and Microsoft came to protest against certain practices of the company Sergey Brin and Larry Page in the search market and advertising network, reaching the company states that "chokes" innovation.
The information is the news network "Bloomberg", which states that an EU representative asked for "certain documents which are essential information for evaluating the transaction," without going into details about the questions in the air. A spokesman for the European arm of Google said that the data requested by the committee are "routine". Initially it was hoped that the aquicição arm of Motorola mobile devices were implemented on the mainland on January 10.
In last August Google announced the purchase of Motorola Mobility for $ 12.5 billion, an operation that given their proportion of reach must pass the scrutiny of authorities from the mainland to become official in Europe.
One of the reasons given by Google to purchase the company is adding a large number of patents to its portfolio in an attempt to shield the Android operating system driven by legal battles against Microsoft, Apple and other courts in the world.
However, since the end of 2010 the alleged anti-competitive practices Google make the giant web is targeted EU. A list of competitors, led by Yahoo and Microsoft came to protest against certain practices of the company Sergey Brin and Larry Page in the search market and advertising network, reaching the company states that "chokes" innovation.
