FTC Gives DoubleClick, Google Holiday Gift
By: Lisa Picarille
Tagged: Acquisition, DoubleClick, FTC and Google
Early Thursday morning The Federal Trade Commission, by a 4-1 vote, said it will not seek to block DoubleClick’s 3.1 billion acquisition of search giant Google.
Several competitors including Microsoft have made claims that the deal raised too many concerns about privacy since the proposed deal was announced more than eight months ago.
The FTC concluded that Google and DoubleClick “are not direct competitors in any relevant antitrust market eliminating the need for further analysis.”
The FTC statement went on to say, ... More
