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Google’s Schmidt at Senate Antitrust Hearing: Eric “Gets It!”

Kara Swisher in News on September 21, 2011 at 11:03 am PT

Google faces the antitrust music in Washington, D.C.

Weekend Update: Franken Also Against AT&T/T-Mobile Deal

Ina Fried in Mobile on July 26, 2011 at 4:08 pm PT

Following on the heels of objections from Wisconsin Sen. Herb Kohl, fellow Democratic Sen. Al Franken said that he, too, opposes the planned $39 billion acquisition.

Odd, the Parental Controls on Sen. Kohl's Copy of IE Have Been Set to Block YahooGoogleFacts.com

John Paczkowski in News on October 3, 2008 at 8:55 am PT

With a Department of Justice ruling on Google’s advertising partnership with Yahoo expected by late next week, a key legislator is urging further scrutiny of the deal. In a letter to the DOJ, Sen. Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, encouraged it to monitor the Google-Yahoo deal, even if the agency signs off on it.

Odd, the Parental Controls on Sen. Kohl’s Copy of IE Have Been Set to Block YahooGoogleFacts.com

John Paczkowski in News on October 3, 2008 at 8:55 am PT

With a Department of Justice ruling on Google’s advertising partnership with Yahoo expected by late next week, a key legislator is urging further scrutiny of the deal. In a letter to the DOJ, Sen. Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, encouraged it to monitor the Google-Yahoo deal, even if the agency signs off on it.

Schmidt: Google Might Worry About What Regulators Think, if Google Cared About What Regulators Think

John Paczkowski in News on September 18, 2008 at 8:00 am PT

When Google and Yahoo announced their advertising partnership back in June, the companies said they’d give the Justice Department three and one half months to review it. Which is more than enough time according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who said the companies will proceed with the deal in October, even if federal regulators haven’t yet approved it.

Yahooglesoft Lawyers Speak!

Kara Swisher in News on July 16, 2008 at 5:59 am PT

Yesterday, BoomTown went to Washington, D.C. to see lawyers from Microsoft, Yahoo and Google face off in Senate hearings about the controversial search advertising outsourcing deal recently struck between Yahoo and Google. Here’s a video of BoomTown chatting up Google’s Chief Legal Officer David Drummond, Microsoft’s General Counsel Brad Smith and Michael Callahan, general counsel for Yahoo, right after the Senate hearings were over.

Kara Visits the Senate Hearings on the Yahoo-Google Ad Search Deal

Kara Swisher in News on July 15, 2008 at 9:21 am PT

Sitting at the Senate hearings about the Yahoo-Google ad search deal this morning in Washington, D.C., let it first be said that BoomTown is deeply dubious of whether that it is a good thing for consumers and advertisers, as both Internet companies have asserted. But this was my most certain conclusion: The worst case scenario is actually for politicians to meddle in the Internet space with their largely Web-ignorant mitts. But that’s just me!

DOJ Token Joins Hat, Dog, Shoe in Googolopoly

John Paczkowski in News on July 2, 2008 at 10:29 am PT

“Good for competition.” That’s how Omid Kordestani, Google’s senior VP of Global Sales and Business Development, described the company’s partnership with Yahoo yesterday. But the U.S. Justice Department isn’t quite buying his professions of altruism.