FTC Investigates Google/DoubleClick Merger
The Federal Trade Commission has opened a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google's planned $3.1 billion purchase of the online advertising company DoubleClick, an industry executive briefed on the agency's plans said Monday. The inquiry began at the end of last week. In the days after the planned merger was announced, EPIC and two other advocacy groups, the Center for Digital Democracy and the United States Public Interest Research Group, filed a request (pdf) for the FTC to investigate the privacy implications.
Google deal said to bring U.S. scrutiny, New York Times, May 29, 2007.
