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Originally Posted by Shaggy
Note, this is just an inquiry so they can determine IF there are any antitrust implications. This is pretty much standard procedure for the justice department when there are any large corporations that start getting into new business areas, or when two large companies merge, etc. Nothing to really get excited about yet. If they come back and say "yes, this is an antitrust violation", then that's news. Most of the time they don't do that though.
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Exactly, inquiries always happen when deals are over a certain threshold, just like the other financial dealings.
And even IF they come back with a "yes", that still will not mean it's in fact a violation. Given the way the Fed here has allowed other "agreements", mergers, acquisitions by any number of companies have been allowed to fly through, I doubt any violation will be found. You can suspect more than the publishing lobbyist money is behind thing, count in Live.com (MS) as well as the ebay/yahoo connection and Amazon is sure to be in the mix also. Heck, Apple probably would love for Google to go away also.