Google: Microsoft-Viacom deal helps our DoubleClick defense
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Search giant argues Viacom's agreement to shift its ads from DoubleClick to Redmond's ad platform shows online ad competition concerns are unfounded. Microsoft, naturally, disagrees.
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In a post on its Web site, Google said the deal could pose threats to âinnovation and opennessâ on the Internet.
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But not without dissent The FTC has voted to approve Google's of web advertising powerhouse DoubleClick, after an eight month investigation - but not without a dissenting voice.â¦
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The Federal Trade Commission said on  Thursday it approved Google's  proposed $3.1 billion  purchase of advertising rival DoubleClick.
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Can homegrown software help Google and YouTube defuse a $1 billion lawsuit from Viacom? That&#39;s the question underlying the announcement that Google is about to test a new system to ferret out unauthorized film and video clips on YouTube.
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SEATTLE -- Microsoft has fended off Google antitrust complaints by agreeing to make it easier for computer users to choose competitors' programs, an increasingly common response from a company long accused of trying to stifle competition.
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In the same week that Microsoft made a half-billion-dollar deal with Viacom, AOL has announced it's closed a merger deal in the advertising space. Could greater intrusiveness into consumer behavior, and higher ad prices, ultimately follow?
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A top executive for Web marketing company DoubleClick (DCLK.O) on Tuesday said Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) MSN Web portal will use its rich media ads online, paving the way for wider use of a key DoubleClick  product.
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InfoWorld - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will not try to block Google's acquisition of online ad-serving vendor DoubleClick, the agency said Thursday.
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Early this morning, The New York Times reported that the US Federal Trade Commission would be expanding its otherwise normal investigation into the prospective merger deal between contextual advertising giant Google and display advertising giant DoubleClick, by issuing Google a "second request" for more information late last week.  Analysts are saying the FTC may be acting on the behest of none other than Microsoft.
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The F.T.C. has opened an antitrust investigation into Googleâs planned $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick.
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The Federal Trade Commission has asked Google for more details about its proposed $3.1 billion purchase of online advertising company DoubleClick as part of an investigation into whether the deal raises antitrust concerns, a Google executive said yesterday.
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BRUSSELS - Google Inc. is confident that its $3.1 billion bid for online ad tracker DoubleClick will win over European and US regulators, a company executive said yesterday - even as advertisers expressed concerns the deal will shrink competition.
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Privacy advocate Marc Rotenberg contends that Google's purchase of DoubleClick will give it broad amounts of data about individual Internet users, with few legal limits on what it could do with that data.
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Google-DoubleClick probe just the beginning Two weeks after the Federal Trade Commission opened an anti-trust investigation into Googleâs proposed acquisition of online ad company DoubleClick, The Wall Street Journal reports that the FTC plans to examine deals by Microsoft and Yahoo! as well.â¦
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SUN VALLEY, Idaho  - Google Inc.  on  Friday took a swipe at media conglomerate Viacom Inc.   which is suing for $1 billion over "massive copyright  infringement" by its video sharing Web site YouTube.
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WASHINGTON -- Google Inc. has hired a former Justice Department official to lobby the federal government on its proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick Inc., which is being reviewed by antitrust regulators.