Why Google May Walk Away From Yahoo Deal

The planned advertising partnership between Google (GOOG) and Yahoo (YHOO), which was devised during Microsoft’s (MSFT) unsolicited bid for Yahoo, is headed for a federal antitrust challenge. And that could mean, according to one analyst, that Google could wind up walking away from the deal. Two days after the Association of National Advertisers sent a letter to the Justice Department opposing the Google-Yahoo ad pact, antitrust regulators hired high-powered attorney Sanford Litvack to lead its legal challenge to block the deal, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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