____/ The Gobbling Goblin on Friday 21 December 2007 04:35 : \____
> From : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7154149.stm
>
> US regulators have approved Google's $3.1bn (£1.56bn) takeover of
> online advertising firm Doubleclick.
> The Federal Trade Commission ruled that the deal would not lead to a
> substantial fall-off in competition for internet adverts.
>
> However, the EU Commission is still probing the deal and Google has
> said it would not complete the takeover until it was cleared by
> Brussels.
>
> Google and Doubleclick have different roles in online advertising.
>
> Doubleclick helps to link up advertising agencies, marketers and web
> site publishers hoping to put ads online and track them.
>
> Google allows firms to target advertising at people using particular
> search terms and also stores information about users' internet surfing
> habits.
>
> Microsoft and AT&T have lobbied heavily against the deal going ahead.
>
The FTC has never done /anything/ against monopolies. Not Intel, not Microsoft,
not Google. It's a pointless office and in this case you have the FTC's
chair's husband somehow making a case of conflicting interest. Those politics
there are crazy. The FCC, SEC and DoJ are equally bizarre. It's just a
question of who funds who (campaign money raising, favours, or bribery).
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