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Taiwan: Fair Trade Agency closes investigations into Google

By  |  August 6, 2015

The Taiwan Fair Trade Commission has closed two investigations into Google Inc. and found no violations, a positive step for the search provider as it faces regulatory pressure elsewhere in the world.

The agency had been probing the company since November 2012 over its maps feature and since the end of last year for its Google Play service, FTC Vice-Chairperson Chiu Yung-ho said in an interview.

“We will continue to monitor the situation in this industry,” Chiu said. “Our main objective was to see if their practices affected our market and competition locally. Every market is different.”

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