IBM gets US antitrust nod to buy MRO Software
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| Antitrust authorities have closed their review of the cash
| transaction without taking action to block it, the Federal Trade
| Commission said in a notice.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/060830/mrosoftware_antitrust.html?.v=1
It makes one wonder if US antitrust is truly a toothless tiger that just
cannot be bothered. This promotes giants and monopolies (including Google in
the information space and even Walmart, which has stretched overseas).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_acquired_by_Microsoft_Corporation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Acquisitions_by_Google
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