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Tweet The Cupertino-based tech giant is coming under increasing scrutiny as four more U.S. lawmakers have now sent letters to the company seeking more information on its admitting to slowing older phones. Read more… Neowin

Tweet European competition chief Joaquin Almunia has reiterated his wish that his department examine Telefonica’s proposed takeover of KPN’s E-Plus, which would create Germany’s largest network by subscriber count. Almunia said a week ago that he doesn’t want to leave the case in the hands of the German national regulator due to Telefonica and KPN’s size and importance at the EU level. On Friday, he added that the Commission would…

Tweet Authorities in the U.S. have already been looking into Hewlett-Packard’s allegations that Autonomy – the 2011 purchase of which led to $ 5 billion worth of write-down for HP last year – had misrepresented its financial metrics ahead of the sale. Now the UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is doing the same. The FRC announced its investigation in a statement on Monday, in which it said it was examining…

Tweet Less than two months after it approved Google’s purchase of Motorola Mobility, the European Commission has announced that it will be investigating the handset maker over claims that it is breaking competition rules. Regulators in Europe said on Tuesday that they were launching not one but two formal investigations looking into whether Motorola has abused its patent portfolio in a series of cases it has brought over recent months….

Tweet Less than a month after Groupon’s controversial IPO, British regulators are carefully examining the company’s advertising and trading methods. The Office of Fair Trading — the U.K.’s equivalent of the Federal Trade Commission — looks set to step up its ongoing investigation of the company’s business practices after another watchdog joined the fray. The Guardian reports that Groupon UK was referred to the OFT by another regulator, the Advertising…