FTC: Google to license patents in antitrust case

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Google is agreeing to license certain patents to mobile phone rivals and stop a practice of including snippets from other websites in its search results as part of a settlement to end a 19-month investigation into the search leader’s business practices, the Federal Trade Commission said Thursday.

U.S. antitrust regulators added that they have found no evidence to claims that Google unfairly favors its own services in search results.

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