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Senator Kohl Leery Of Google Gobbling Up AdMob

				
Posted  04/12/10
								

				 
								 				Google’s informal motto is “Don’t be evil.”  Whether or not it has breached that principle, the internet search and advertising giant may be about to run afoul of antitrust law, according to the Senate’s head antitrust watchdog.

On Tuesday, Senator Herb Kohl, chair of the antitrust subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked the Federal Trade Commission to take a closer look at Google’s...				 
				 					 

						
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DOT Tentatively Approves American Airlines and British Airways Joint Venture

				
Posted  02/24/10
								

				 
								 				The U.S. Department of Transportation (“DOT”) has issued a show-cause order that tentatively approves the antitrust immunity application for the joint venture between members of the oneworld airline alliance, including American Airlines, British Airways, and Iberia.  The tentative approval applies to transatlantic traffic, which American Airlines and British Airways dominate for routes between the U.S. and the...				 
				 					 

						
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Should Manhattan Hospitals Prepare For Outbreak Of Monopolization?

				
Posted  02/10/10
								

				 
								 				St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan may have survived its recent brush with possible monopolization, but its financial health leaves it susceptible to relapse.  That’s the diagnosis of some antitrust practitioners, who are bracing for another outbreak.

The weak financial health of St. Vincent's Hospital has been in the news lately.  News reports indicate that St. Vincent's, located on Manhattan’s West 12th...				 
				 					 

						
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Obama DOJ Makes Ticketmaster Work For Its Ticket To Ride With Live Nation

				
Posted  01/28/10
								

				 
								 				Although Ticketmaster’s got a ticket to ride with its merger target, Live Nation, the ticket vendor is finding that the price of a ticket for a merger has gone up in the Obama Administration.

The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice forced Ticketmaster this week to take actions to achieve antitrust clearance of its merger with Live Nation.  Among other things, Ticketmaster was compelled to...				 
				 					 

						
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Will The DOJ’s Holiday Greeting To The EC Bring Holiday Cheer?

				
Posted  12/29/09
								

				 
								 				The DOJ’s Antitrust Division has sent the European Commission a holiday greeting that appears designed to mollify the EC after a DOJ statement last month that the EC viewed as a lump of coal in its Christmas stocking.

“The Department of Justice's Antitrust Division commends the efforts of the European Commission …”  These were the opening words of a surprising statement issued by Assistant Attorney General...				 
				 					 

						
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Antitrust Issues Keeping Coffee Executives Awake

				
Posted  12/28/09
								

				 
								 				If coffee executives can’t sleep at night, it isn’t the coffee, it’s the antitrust issues.

Coffee companies around the world are working through the holiday season, contending with merger issues in the U.S. and price fixing in Europe.

In the U.S., Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. has voluntarily withdrawn its filing with the FTC regarding its purchase of Diedrich Coffee Inc. after consultation with the...				 
				 					 

						
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Connecticut AG Eyes UnitedHealthcare-Health Net Merger

				
Posted  12/21/09
								

				 
								 				While consideration of health care may be dominating the halls of Congress, state officials are reminding health insurers that the Feds don’t have a monopoly in regulation.

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has announced that his office is investigating the merger of UnitedHealthcare and Health Net Inc.

UnitedHealthcare agreed in July to pay approximately $510 million to buy Health Net’s...				 
				 					 

						
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Sirius XM Radio Subscriber Attacks Merger, Claiming Prices Now Go To 11

				
Posted  12/17/09
								

				 
								 				A subscriber in Florida is suing Sirius XM Radio, challenging the 2008 merger of the two satellite radio services with allegations of deceptive and excessive pricing.

The private suit claims that despite the commitments Sirius and XM made to the Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission as a condition of merger approval, the combined firm has raised prices above competitive levels.

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When Exclusivity Is Pro-Competitive...

				
Posted  12/14/09
								

				 
								 				Microsoft and News Corporation (“News Corp.”) are reportedly in discussions for a deal where News Corp. would sell its online content to Microsoft for inclusion in its Bing Internet search engine.  As part of the deal, News Corp. would delist its articles from Google’s search engine and list them exclusively with Bing.

In a curious twist of fate, Microsoft’s exclusive with News Corp is likely...				 
				 					 

						
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Another Competition Law Class Action Milestone In Canada

				
Posted  12/14/09
								

				 
								 				Last month, the British Columbia Court of Appeal, in Pro-Sys Consultants Ltd. v Infineon Technologies AG, granted an appeal and certified a class of combined direct and indirect purchasers of "DRAMs" (semiconductor memory chips also known as "dynamic random access memory") in class proceedings against DRAM manufacturers.  This appellate court decision is the second significant antitrust class certification decision...				 
				 					 

						
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