Antitrust Probe Threatens Microsoft/Yahoo Deal

The Associated Press has an article about the Microsoft/Yahoo search partnership that was announced at the end of July and how antitrust investigations threaten to derail the deal. Both US and EU regulators have begun investigations and no answer is expected soon.

The Microsoft-Yahoo alliance may stand a better chance of winning antitrust approval than the Google-Yahoo pact because it would combine the second and third players in the search market instead of the top two, said Melissa Maxman, head of the antitrust practice group at Baker & Hostetler LLP. In fact, a combination of Microsoft and Yahoo would still lag far behind Google.

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