Antitrust regulators would fight a Yahoo-Google combination

Posted Friday, 18 April 2008, 01:13 HST @384

According to this Reuters article, a Yahoo-Google combination would face more antitrust scrutiny than a Yahoo-Microsoft merger:

Google held a 59.2 percent share of the U.S. Web search market in February, compared with Yahoo’s 21.6 percent and Microsoft’s 9.6 percent, according to research firm comScore.

Those numbers would give a Yahoo-Google combination an 80.8 percent market share.

Combine Yahoo and Microsoft and their market share is only 31.2 percent, which is less than Google’s numbers.

Tags: Google, government, merger, Microsoft, search, USA, Yahoo

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1 billso // Wednesday, 7 May 2008, 16:36 HST @025

This post was mentioned by Stephen Grocer on the Wall Street Journal’s web site earlier today. Grocer interviewed Edward A. Deibert and Celia P. Van Gorder of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin regarding a possible Google-Yahoo deal, possibly based upon “exclusive licensing of intellectual property” - the two companies’ search and advertising technologies.
2 billso // Thursday, 8 May 2008, 10:41 HST @778

I’ve got a long discussion of the Clearwire joint venture in this post. Google is a participant in this WiMAX business.