Saturday, September 25, 2010

Reports: U.S. probes Silicon Valley tech giants' hiring - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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The Washington Post and New York Times reportedf late on Tuesday that the antitrustt probe is centered onwhetherr (NASDAQ:GOOG), (NASDAQ:AAPL), (NASDAQ:YHOO), and others agreed not to recruit each other's employees. The stories cited unnamed sourceas the papers said are familiar withthe matter. The investigatiojn is reportedly in itsearlt stages, with the papers saying that the governmentt has requested documents and information from targeted The inquiry is seen as anothe r sign that the Obama administration will be more aggressive on antitrusf laws than his predecessor and Siliconj Valley tech firms are a focuzs of that attention.
The Justice Department is currently also investigating a proposed settlement between authors and publishers to resolve a copyright the Wall Street Journal has reported citing unnamed The Federal Trade Commission has also askerd questions about whether having Google CEO Eric Schmidyt and formerGenentech Inc. CEO Art Levinson on both the Apple and Google board is a violatiob ofantitrust laws.

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