Google let the market GUIDE
U.S. authorities after eight months of deliberation still allowed to Internet giant Google to buy ITA Software, one of the leading players in the market of systems for online searching tickets and tour packages.
Currently, Google does not provide services for selection of flights and tours on the market in web work KAYAK, Expedia, Travelport and other companies. Most of these data about flights, prices, availability and so on ITA Software delivers it through its system.
Once approved by the U.S. Justice Department on Friday, the transaction volume of $ 700 million will be held, Google actually become the main online source of such information. That the company could not use his position for squeezing competitors from the market, the authorities have put a number of conditions.
Google is required to continue the licensing of products ITA Software companies, competitors, even after the search engine will offer customers its own search flights and tours. Thus, the Internet giant will continue to share information, such as the Microsoft-owned search engine, Bing, to implement a “tourist” search for a long time. True, not the fact that Microsoft wants to buy access to air bases of data from a competitor.
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