The Federal Trade Commission has essentially given the nod to the aQuantive deal by allowing the 30-day investigation period to pass without requesting further information, reports TheStreet.com. Interestingly enough the FTC requested more information from Google for its DoubleClick acquisition, though that isn’t uncommon in a deal that size. Still, the implicit A-OK for Microsoft while digging deeper into Google/DoubleClick is worth pondering. Microsoft complained that the Google/DoubleClick marriage could raise both competition and privacy issues. So did a European Consumer Group. And apparently regulators are listening, even while Microsoft seems to be successfully shooing off Google from sticking its fingers into Microsoft’s antitrust goings on. For a laugh, read what this reader has to say in post titled: Doubleclick is not my friend
“This deal smells about like an ox, a heavily overworked one on a hot summer day. In the barnyard. Next to a manure pile. That is on fire.” Read more.
