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Critics of Google's book-searching agreement with publishers and authors were cheered last week when antitrust regulators in the Justice Department set their sights on the search giant's publishing deal, demanding more information...
...been this much hoopla over an entertainment deal since the Sirius XM Satellite Radio merger in 2007 during the Bush Administration, Schildkraut said. Although the Sirius-XM deal ultimately got approved (and the combined company has muddled along), President Barack Obama vowed to put some spine back in antitrust enforcement. He named Christine Varney, a strong antitrust advocate, to head the Justice Department's antitrust investigations. "Obama was very vocal during the campaign about reinvigorating the antitrust laws," concurred Olivier Antoine, an attorney in Crowell & Moring's antitrust group, who represented Sirius in the Sirius XM merger...
...antitrust concerns are twofold. First, there's the so-called horizontal impact, which refers to when a company buys out a rival to eliminate competition. In this case, the merger will stop Live Nation's recently launched ticketing company from cutting in on Ticketmaster's turf. Live Nation dumped its ticketing contract with Ticketmaster in January after signing a 10-year contract to license ticketing software from Europe's CTS Eventim to run its own ticketing business. The move took a toll on Ticketmaster, which saw its profits dive 78% in the first quarter, partly due to the lost Live...
...staggering 80.5% market share in microprocessors. But it represents vindication for Intel's semiconductor rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which filed the original complaint in 2000. And it also underlines the power and authority of the Commission, which has now established itself as the world's most feared antitrust regulator...
...designed to muscle out AMD, whose current market share is a relatively meager 12%. "Intel has harmed millions of European consumers by deliberately acting to keep competitors out of the market for computer chips for many years," she said. "Such a serious and sustained violation of the E.U.'s antitrust rules cannot be tolerated." (See pictures of Obama's trip to Europe...