Justice Dept To Investigate Google-Yahoo Deal 105
Anonymous Oddity writes "The Washington Post is reporting that the Justice Department's investigating the Yahoo-Google advertising deal. Obviously the deal controls a massive portion of the internet advertising market. US Antitrust law isn't entirely intuitive, but it does tend to frown on large deals between companies that operate on the same level if those deals can be interpreted as restrictive of trade."
Re:Taxdollars wasted... (Score:2, Informative)
Compaq never was a monopoly, and Microsoft still is. Look it up in a dictionary sometime:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=monopoly&x=0&y=0/ [reference.com]
Re:Hmmmm..... (Score:2, Informative)
If they want material evidence, they just need to look at every other market Microsoft has been in and see how they've managed to leverage their OS and office suite monopoly to dominate it.