Google-Doubleclick deal likely to win OK - experts
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| Mark Kovner, an antitrust lawyer with Kirkland & Ellis, said the Federal
| Trade Commission was not inclined to block vertical mergers, which are
| usually the combination of two companies producing different goods or
| services for the same product.
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http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=media&storyID=nN09237242
TV giants lock horns with Microsoft and Google over white space wireless play
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| A coalition of big-name tech companies - including Dell, HP, Intel, and
| Philips as well as Google and Microsoft - is urging the Federal
| Communications Commission (FCC) to allow the use of personal computing
| devices that transmit data over the country's television "white spaces" -
| portions of the TV spectrum that aren't used for broadcasting.
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http://www.theregister.com/2007/10/13/big_four_tv_networks_attack_google_microsoft_wireless_proposal/
Related:
Microsoft trying to derail Google/DoubleClick deal by lobbying congress
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| Microsoft has hired lobbying firm Patton Boggs LLC to do work on "competitive
| issues surrounding Google/DoubleClick [sic] merger."
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070816-microsoft-spends-40000-to-lobby-congress-about-googledoubleclick-merger.html
Tech Companies Paid Lobbyist $200,000
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| Over 60 companies and trade associations, including Microsoft Corp. and Apple
| Inc., have formed the Coalition for Patent Fairness, which paid Patton Boggs
| to lobby Congress in support of patent reform legislation, according to the
| form posted online Aug. 9 by the Senate's public records office.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070830/tech_companies_lobbying.html?.v=1
Politics and tech companies: follow the money
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061110-8194.html
Changing the Report, After the Vote
http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/09/01/commission
Microsoft's 'Men in Black' kill Florida open standards legislation
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| It was just a bit of text advocating open data formats that was slipped into
| a Florida State Senate bill at the last minute with no fanfare, but within
| 24 hours three Microsoft-paid lobbyists, all wearing black suits, were
| pressuring members of the Senate Committee on Governmental Operations
| (COGO) to remove the words they didn't like from Senate bill 1974.
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http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/16/2019244&from=rss
Politicians in Microsoft's Pocket
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| Continuing on the theme of which politicians are receiving money from
| who. Here is a list of candidates who took money from MSFT.
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http://www.fonz.net/blog/archives/2007/06/04/politicians-in-microsofts-pocket/
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