Antitrust Investigation

Source: bymnews.com --- 10 days ago
Stolt-Nielsen S.A. (Oslo Stock Exchange: SNI) has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group Ltd. has reached an agreement to resolve a Canadian Competition Bureau's enquiry into alleged anticompetitive activity by the Company in the supply of ... ...

Source: www.idahostatesman.com --- 22 days ago
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether some Idaho physicians violated federal laws intended to protect the public from unfair business practices. ...

Source: www.bignewsnetwork.com --- 11 days ago
LONDON--(Marketwire - September 30, 2008) - Stolt-Nielsen S.A. (Oslo Stock Exchange: SNI) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group Ltd. has reached an agr... ...

Source: www.m-travel.com --- 40 days ago
The European Commission has opened an Antitrust Investigation into a revenue-sharing deal between British Airways, American Airlines and Iberia. It is not a merger Investigation and has no specific deadline. ...

Source: www.ebayyer.co.uk --- 15 days ago
eBay has asked the European Union’s Antitrust chief to investigate a number of distribution agreements across the bloc, calling them an illegal barrier to competition. “We have requested the EU to carry out investigations into distributors of sports goods in Spain, schoolbags in Germany and pushchairs in Britain,” eBay Vice President Tod Cohen told Reuters. “We think [...] ...

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 9 days ago
AP - A key senator is urging the Justice Department to keep up its Investigation into the Antitrust implications of the Internet advertising partnership that Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. plan to launch this month. ...

Source: www.iht.com --- 9 days ago
A key senator is urging the Justice Department to keep up its Investigation into the Antitrust implications of the Internet advertising partnership that Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. plan to launch this month. ...

Source: dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com --- 5 days ago
The Justice Department’s Antitrust Investigation of the advertising partnership between Google and Yahoo has revealed the growing resentment and fear of Google’s power among some of the biggest players in the advertising industry — the very customers that Google needs to keep expanding its business. Some of the leading industry associations and advertising agencies that have [...] ...

Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com --- 8 days ago
A key senator has urged the US Justice Department to keep up its Investigation into the Antitrust implications of the Google, Yahoo ad deal. G1 phone I Google's Chrome ...

Source: www.pcworld.com --- 7 days ago
Google said that it will delay its search advertising deal with Yahoo while the DOJ continues its Antitrust Investigation into... ...

Source: seattlepi.nwsource.com --- 9 days ago
WASHINGTON -- A key senator is urging the Justice Department to keep up its Investigation into the Antitrust implications of the Internet advertising partnership that Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. plan to launch this month. ...

Source: blog.searchenginewatch.com --- 8 days ago
Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) is okay with the Google-Yahoo deal, but he wants the DOJ to keep a close eye on the implementation. In a letter to Assistant Attorney General Thomas Barnett , Kohl, Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust urges: Recognizing the nascent and fast-changing nature of this marketplace, we encourage the Department to continue to monitor the state of competition in this industry, whatever the outcome of its current Investigation. If, over time, you determine that Google is gaining a dominant market position as a result of the Google-Yahoo agreement, then we would encourage the Justice Department to intervene to protect competition. Even should you conclude at present that this deal is not contrary to Antitrust law, the Department must be sure that this deal never in the future crosses the line into an unacceptable, anti-competitive collaboration among competitors which will harm consumers and advertisers. Kohl also acknowledged both the fears of advertisers and the assurances of Yahoo and Google . I think it's prudent to let the deal go through, but to watch as the program unfolds to see if anti-competitiveness occurs. What do you think? h/t Reuters ...

Source: www.nzherald.co.nz --- 8 days ago
WASHINGTON - A key senator is urging the Justice Department to keep up its Investigation into the Antitrust implications of the internet advertising partnership that Google and Yahoo plan to launch this month. Wisconsin Democrat... ...

Source: techblog.dallasnews.com --- 8 days ago
Shortly after Sen. Herb Kohl asked wireless carriers to justify rising SMS prices , lawyers began filing Antitrust suits, RCR Wireless News reports. I can't find the story online, but the wireless industry trade magazine uncovered five suits in just the first few days after Kohl began asking carriers why they've doubled the price of text messages over the past few years. (Text messages, when paid for individually, generally cost about 20 cents apiece these days -- even though many analysts think they cost carriers well under a penny to deliver. High profit margins aren't illegal, of course, but when all the companies in an industry hike the price of a service that's only getting cheaper to provide, people start thinking about collusion and Antitrust suits.*) RCR thinks the lawyers smell blood and expects them to pool their resources into a massive class action. As the lawyers start proceedings in court, Sen. Kohl appears intent on moving forward with some sort of Investigation. Americans currently send about 75 billion text messages a month, so SMS is clearly a big revenue and profit generator for the wireless industry. (Carriers generate about $28 billion a year in data revenue, which includes SMS.) It will be interesting to see how this plays out. *As I was writing that sentence, it occurred to me that airlines often float a price increase, see if competitors match and then back off if others don't raise rates. Why, I wondered, ...

Source: venturebeat.com --- 5 days ago
Here’s the latest action: Google and Yahoo delay ad deal — The delay gives the Justice Department more time for its Antitrust Investigation. This news, as well as calls by Sen. Herb Kohl (chair of the Senate Antitrust Committee) for more scrutiny, probably doesn’t bode well for the deal, though it may buy the tech companies [...] ...

Source: search.sys-con.com --- 6 days ago
Yahoo’s life-saving revenue-enhancing alliance with Google, supposedly set to kick off in a week and substitute for a Microsoft buy-out, has been put on hold while Antitrust regulators at the Department of Justice continue their Investigation. The companies issued separate statements late Friday saying they had agreed to a "brief delay in implementing the agreement." read more ...

Source: www.katu.com --- 9 days ago
A key senator is urging the Justice Department to keep up its Investigation into the Antitrust implications of the Internet advertising partnership that Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. plan to launch this month. ...