FTC to Investigate Google/DoubleClick Deal
Several privacy and consumer advocacy groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Digital Democracy and the United States Public Interest Research Group, filed a request for the FTC to investigate after the deal was announced in April. Microsoft, which failed to win the bidding war for DoubleClick, and AT&T both filed requests for an antitrust review. |
The Federal Trade Commission has opened a preliminary investigation into Google's proposed $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick, 
