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The inevitable happened.  Regulators killed the Yahoo-Google agreement before it started        1) There is not enough distribution for interactive ads and Google did not see this as meaningful incremental traffic to waste the time and energy fighting...

The block placed on the Phonak/ReSound merger in the hearing aids market by the German competition authorities although significant should not be seen as the rule but as an exceptional event. The nature of the market and the existence of a vociferous complainant competitor that is headquartered...

• Google needs sales force to reach over 25 million US hyper-local businesses because self-provisioning has failed for the 1 millionth year in a row • Collecting data in this new program is not a sales force and will be a trail of tears • This program will have no success in developing...

Whilst the upcoming decision of the European Court of First Instance promises to be a blockbuster in its own right, there is more at stake than the interests of the parties directly involved and the industrial sector that they represent. An entire zone of European antitrust enforcement, namely...

Whilst moving to a more economics-based approach makes good theoretical sense, it is going to make antitrust compliance a great deal harder to achieve. The EU is unlikely to match the US with regard to the legality of enforcing minimum retail prices any time soon. That being said resale price maintenance...

1. Search is attempting to bring order from disorder 2. Humans do not live life in serial 3. Until more human interaction can be brought to the process, the machines will continue to be unable to process and index intuitively

Charging me a fee to sell me things is a bad model and always has been Success of this model is dependant on the systems powering the 30% of businesses that sell things – and will limit choice to those with huge IT budgets and sophisticated inventory management systems. The remaining 70% of business...

The only reason this is interesting is that we are all deal junkies. I simply do not see this making much sense because:1) Regardless of the protestation, interactive media is not Microsofts' core business strategy2) The weakness at Yahoo is systemic and will not be cured with a mismatch at another,...

1) Muni WiFi is another political football that creates a new private-verses-public battle2) Large companies are seeking Muni WiFi as a last mile solution for other technologies including WiMax3) Free, for the 1 millionth year in a row, is not a business model

The DoJ probe highlights the facts that antitrust issues can arise when competing (or potentially competing) bidders coordinate their behaviour.As the practice of joint bids is common, a large number of private equity funds - and ultimately investors - could be affected.However, it appears that there...