Sunday, July 15, 2012

Google downplays antitrust concerns - San Francisco Business Times:

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"There is no reason to be upsegt or surprised withthe scrutiny," Google's competitionn counsel Dana Wagner told a group of reportersx in San Francisco. "It comes with the There are three potential antitrust areas the governmentfis exploring: a settlement with authors and publishersx on electronic rights to out-of-print books, collusion with othefr Silicon Valley tech giants on an alleged recruiting blacklisyt and common members of its boarsd and 's (NASDAQ:AAPL). Wagner told reporterzs that Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) prefers a non-confrontationalk approach to the investigations. "I'm a lover not a he said.
"One of the reasons we haven'gt had a huge fight is that we generalluy try to findcommon ground." On the book Google confirmed that it and others have received formakl demands from the Justice department for details about the settlement of a clasds action suit that some say will give it an unfairf advantage in providing out-of-print It declined to go into detail on what was being sought, however.
Google, Apple, (NASDAQ:YHOO) and have also been serves with formal demands for information in the inquiry into whethefr they have agreed on liste of employees thatthey wouldn't try to recruit away from each The Federal Trade Commission is looking into the overlappin g boards issue. Google CEO Eric Schmidtf and Arthur Levinson, Genentech's forme r CEO, serve on the boards of both Googleand

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