F.T.C. Head Wonât Recuse From Google Deal
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Deborah Platt Majoras said she wonât remove herself from an antitrust review of Googleâs purchase of DoubleClick, rebuffing requests from privacy groups opposed to the transaction.
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Ex-Thailand prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's bid to buy Man City is still on, despite him being ordered to back to Bangkok to face corruption charges.
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The company&#39;s chief financial officer said yesterday he will not return until he learns whether the government is planning charges against him.
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Malcolm Glazer&#39;s bid for Manchester United isn&#39;t over, despite being turned away by the British soccer club&#39;s board of directors over concerns that his proposed buyout requires too much debt.
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British fire-fighting equipment manufacturer Kidde Plc said Friday it had rebuffed an unsolicited cash approach from US rival United Technologies Corp.
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The U.S. International Trade  Commission (ITC) has denied Qualcomm Inc.'s  request to  stay an order banning imports of new phones with Qualcomm chips  that the agency said infringe a Broadcom Corp.  patent.
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Last week, as we reported, Qualcomm's request for a stay of injunction against the sale of certain of its chips in the US was denied, and that denial was upheld by the International Trade Commission. This after the company was found to have infringed upon three Broadcom patents. At that time, Broadcom said it was open to seeking a negotiated settlement with Broadcom.
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The Web site of a law firm employing the husband of U.S. Federal Trade Commission chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras contradicts an FTC explanation that Majoras has no conflict of interest in reviewing DoubleClick&#39;s $3.1 billion acquisition by Google, two privacy groups said Thursday.On Wednesday, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD)&#160;asked Majoras to recuse herself from the merger review, saying her husband, John Majoras, is a partner with Jones Day, the law firm that is advising DoubleClick on antitrust issues relating to the acquisition.DoubleClick and the FTC have denied that Jones Day has represented the company before the FTC.But on Thursday, EPIC and CDD filed a second complaint with the FTC, showing a cached Web page claiming that Jones Day is advising DoubleClick &quot;on the international and U.S. antitrust and competition law aspects of its planned $3.1 billion acquisition by Google Inc.&quot; The Jones Day Web page was later changed, the groups said.EPIC and CDD said Thursday they were filing a Freedom of Information Act request seeking all records on the relationship between Jones Day and DoubleClick.One conclusion to draw is that &quot;Jones Day has sought to conceal the nature, scope, and duration of the relationship with its client DoubleClick by altering web pages,&quot; said a letter signed by executive directors of both organizations. FTC spokespeople who denied the relationship were &quot;either misinformed or willfully misled the public,&quot; the letter says.An FTC spokeswoman declined to comment on the new complaint. Representatives of Jones Day and DoubleClick weren&#39;t immediately available for comment.The FTC and DoubleClick downplayed the connection Wednesday, saying Jones Day has not advised DoubleClick on matters before the FTC. Instead, Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett has been DoubleClick&#39;s outside counsel since July of 2005 and has advised it in matters before the FTC, DoubleClick said in a statement.&quot;Jones Day was not engaged to represent, and has not represented DoubleClick before the Federal Trade Commission or appeared before the commission on DoubleClick&#8217;s behalf,&quot; the company said.In April, EPIC, CDD, and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG)&#160;asked the FTC to block Google&#39;s acquisition of DoubleClick&#160;unless the combined company made changes to its privacy practices. The combined company would hold a vast amount of private information on Web users, the groups said.
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The company&#39;s chief financial officer said he won&#39;t return until he learns whether the government is planning charges against him.
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An Australian consumer agency says it won't block Google's proposed acquisition of DoubleClick because it does not consider the two companies to be competitors.
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The Guardian says representatives of Glazer, who owns a 28% stake in the club, are believed to have met Manchester United&#39;s chief executive, David Gill, last week to say the American tycoon is considering submitting a fresh Â£800m offer.
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Google Inc. GOOG.O is refusing to   post a copy of a Belgian legal ruling against it on its local   Web site, and is asking the court to annul that provision of   the case and the daily fines associated with it.
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A federal judge declined to accept a guilty plea yesterday from a former software engineer at America Online Inc. who had been accused of stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail
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Competition boss who filed charges rejected a settlement offer so EU could maintain oversight.
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A federal judge declined to accept a guilty plea yesterday from a former software engineer at America Online Inc. who had been accused of stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses of subscribers for use in an Internet marketing scheme.
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The Dutch market regulator said Friday it would not block a possible takeover of computer services company PinkRoccade NV by peer Getronics NV.
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Sanjay Kumar, former CEO of New York-based software giant Computer Associates, has pleaded not guilty to charges of defrauding investors by fudging records.