Press Release
FTC May Put Kibosh On Google’s AdMob Deal
Despite the fact that the mobile advertising market is still young and fragmented, U.S. regulators apparently are concerned that Google’s proposed acquisition of AdMob could give it an unfair competitive advantage. Google got an inkling that the FTC might want to give the deal a second look shortly after it was announced. At the end of December, the company received a "second request" for
additional information from the agency, Paul Feng, group product
manager, wrote in Google’s Public Policy blog. Shortly thereafter, two consumer groups — Consumer Watchdog and the
Center for Digital Democracy — asked the Federal Trade Commission to block the deal, arguing that it would lessen competition and harm consumers, advertisers and application developers, among others.
Press Release
Consumer Groups Sound Alarm Over Google’s AdMob Buy
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Google’s plan to acquire mobile ad network AdMob in a US$750 million deal announced last month is under fire from two consumer groups, Consumer Watchdog and the Center for Digital Democracy. The two have asked the Federal Trade Commission
to block the deal, arguing that it would substantially lessen
competition in the mobile advertising market, harming consumers,
advertisers and application developers, among others.
Google Lobbyist Unfit for Deputy CTO Job, Say Critics
Thursday, June 4, 2009
President Obama reportedly is poised to name Andrew McLaughlin,
a former Google executive, as U.S. deputy CTO. The choice rankles the
heads of two advocacy groups, who maintain that McLaughlin’s work as a
lobbyist on behalf of Google makes him unsuitable for the government
policy development role.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
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