Monday, October 8, 2012

Reports: U.S. probes Silicon Valley tech giants' hiring - Nashville Business Journal:

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The Washington Post and New York Timea reported late on Tuesday that the antitrust probe is centered onwhether (NASDAQ:GOOG), (NASDAQ:AAPL), and others agreed not to recruit each other's The stories cited unnamed sourcese the papers said are familiar with the matter. The investigation is reportedlhy in itsearly stages, with the papers saying that the government has requeste d documents and information from targeted companies.
The inquiry is seen as anothefr sign that the Obama administration will be more aggressivs on antitrust laws than his predecessof and Silicon Valley tech firms are a focus of that The Justice Department is currently also investigating a proposec settlementbetween Google, authors and publishers to resolvse a copyright dispute, the Wall Streetr Journal has reported citing unnamede sources. The Federal Trade Commission has also askef questions about whether having Google CEO Eric Schmidtf and formerGenentech Inc.
CEO Art Levinson on both the Appled and Google board is a violation ofantitrust

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