But all these deals would prompt antitrust scrutiny, and no final resolution is expected anytime soon.
Intel has been under antitrust scrutiny by the government numerous times over past years.
Concerns about antitrust scrutiny also heightened the risk of finding new ways to profit from Google's exclusive data.
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This is an extraordinary insight into Microsoft's refusal to restrain itself even under the most intense antitrust scrutiny.
It's not just securities houses that are coming under antitrust scrutiny these days.
He said he doubted that Apple, currently, has a sufficiently dominant position in that market to warrant antitrust scrutiny.
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Earlier in the week, the House voted to subject OPEC to antitrust scrutiny.
It no doubt would invite antitrust scrutiny if it suddenly began making it harder for Wildfire to participate in Facebook marketing.
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First, Facebook is big, and as the FTC-Google investigation illustrates, big increasingly triggers antitrust scrutiny even without any evidence of bad conduct.
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Although the merger is subject to antitrust scrutiny, few disposals are expected.
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Although mergers might generate effects that are not recognized as antitrust harms, there is little chance that a merger would escape antitrust scrutiny.
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Some such agreements might survive antitrust scrutiny, but the prospect of litigation would inhibit league-wide agreements with respect to most, if not all, of these subjects.
So even though a group-granted exclusive license to a single manufacturer may be subject to antitrust scrutiny, such a license is not necessarily a violation of the Sherman Act.
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This is now antitrust relevant because six years ago Google was not dominant or under antitrust scrutiny, but now Google is clearly dominant and under antitrust investigation on five continents.
In sum, Google made a big mistake in allowing the Google-Mozilla agreement to expire and putting the business relationship out for competitive bidding, because it now begs for public and antitrust scrutiny.
Because the NCAA is a trade association governed by its members, its threat to ban a given member is generally subject to antitrust scrutiny under Section 1 of the Sherman Act.
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The merger, which analysts expect to survive antitrust scrutiny, will give Dow a greater presence in Asia, the Middle East and parts of Europe in its basic commodities business, as well as slightly increase, to 62% , revenues from noncyclical products.
If there were three cell phone providers and two of them wanted to merge, that would still be something for antitrust authorities to give careful scrutiny.
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The FTC's scrutiny follows a series of antitrust investigations of Intel's chip business around the world.
The FTC's scrutiny follows a series of antitrust investigations of Intel's (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) chip business around the world.
At that time, it was already under scrutiny by the EU over antitrust violations over how it bundled its browser with its operating system, and in the midst of that, it turned out that it was distributing Windows 7 without giving users an obvious way of opting out of selecting its own Internet Explorer as an option, with the glitch affecting some 15 million users, the EC says.
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The deal would have to pass regulatory scrutiny, though, because of antitrust concerns.
What should be striking to anyone interested in moving our economy forward is that every one of these companies has been subject to antitrust investigation by the government, with the last group all currently reported under scrutiny.
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