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Google, Yahoo!, Apple Targeted In DoJ Antitrust Probe

Posted by Soulskill on from the hand-in-the-cookie-jar dept.

suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from the Washington Post: "The Justice Department has launched an investigation into whether some of the nation's largest technology companies violated antitrust laws by negotiating the recruiting and hiring of one another's employees, according to two sources with knowledge of the review. The review, which is said to be in its preliminary stages, is focused on Google; its competitor Yahoo; Apple; and the biotech firm Genentech, among others, according to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. The sources said the review includes other tech companies and is 'industry-wide.' By agreeing not to hire away top talent, the companies could be stifling competition and trying to maintain their market power unfairly, antitrust experts said. ... Obama's antitrust chief at the Justice Department, Christine Varney, has said she plans to look at the network effects of high-tech companies and how their grasp on markets has cut out competitors and hurt consumers."

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  1. After the probe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Their anuses look like this.

  2. Apparently the Obama administration doesn't by EraserMouseMan · · Score: -1, Troll

    Would you have voted for BHO if you knew he was going to make a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court who is pro-RIAA and that under BHO's administration we'd see Google, Apple come under major Antitrust scrutiny (but not Microsoft)? What are your thoughts?

    1. Re:Apparently the Obama administration doesn't by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Nice red herring, but it doesn't have anything to do with the fact that teh whole uproar over Sotomayor was based on a single ruling out of all of her years in the federal judiciary. One ruling hardly justifies being called "pro-RIAA".

      Don't buy this "latina" bullshit, she's a spic, or a wetback, and a fairly racist one too.

      Except I never voted for Obama and have disagreed with almost everything he's done. Doesn't mean I won't still correct people who are spreading nonsense.

      Speaking of niggers, at least this one acts white.

  3. Re:Seriously? by je+ne+sais+quoi · · Score: -1, Troll

    Doesn't it make much more sense to go after MS rather then companies which are definitely not monopolies and not abusive ones at that?

    I agree. The browser war is pretty much old news, but I'm really sick to death of how video games for PCs are usually only available for Windows. If it weren't for that, I could close down my windows partition on my home PC permanently. Obviously I have no proof of infringing behavior, but I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that MS is engaging in some anti-competitive practices in this area to shut out competing platforms from the PC gaming market. If it were me looking at this, I'd look for deals between MS and the video card manufacturers.

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  4. Wheres Microsoft in antitrust investigations? by miffo.swe · · Score: -1, Troll

    I dont understand how they can go after small things like this while Microsoft continues abusing OEM's.

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  5. Re:They have money by azior · · Score: 0, Troll

    Even though I own multiple Apple products I would rather see DOJ bust Apple's balls than MS. At MS doesn't dictate whose machine I can run their OS on

    ...as long as it's Intel x86 or x86-64... Microsoft and Intel are like a evil couple