Antitrust Experts Debate Google/Yahoo Ad Deal
The Washington Legal Foundation on Friday will wade into a topic that has already sparked a heated congressional debate over antitrust and policy issues, which arise from competitor collaborations such as the recently announced search advertising deal inked between Internet rivals Google and Yahoo.
The Web briefing's speakers are former U.S. assistant attorney general Rick Rule and the former chief of a key merger and collaboration review unit of the Justice Department's antitrust division, Mark Botti. Rule, a partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, has represented Microsoft in antitrust matters and that company has argued against the Google-Yahoo deal. Botti is an attorney at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.
Executives for Google, Microsoft and Yahoo testified at a Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee hearing last month. Subcommittee Chairman Herb Kohl, D-Wis., said lawmakers must scrutinize the arrangement, which will give Yahoo access to certain Google advertising tools, to ensure that it does not "reduce Yahoo to nothing more than the latest satellite in the Google orbit." House Energy and Commerce leaders have also expressed concerns with the deal.
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