WSJ: US Hires Attorney to Look at Google-Yahoo Deal

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According to a report in the Wall Street Journal , the Department of Justice “has quietly hired one of the nation’s best-known litigators, former Walt Disney Co. vice chairman Sanford Litvack, for a possible antitrust challenge to Google Inc.’s growing power in advertising.””

The Journal states that the hiring of Mr. Litvack’s “is the strongest signal yet that the U.S. is preparing to take court action against Google and its search-advertising deal with Yahoo.”

The Journal specultes that the U.S. may challenge the Google-Yahoo deal alone or look at Google’s conduct in the online advertising business.

Google was down 5.5%,  or $24.30, today in trading.

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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