“Microsoft said yesterday that Google’s proposed purchase of Internet advertising company DoubleClick raises antitrust and privacy concerns that deserve careful review by authorities,” Sam Diaz reports for The Washington Post.
“Executives at the software giant said they talked over the weekend with AT&T, AOL and Yahoo about similar concerns. Microsoft had bid for DoubleClick but lost to Google,” Diaz reports.
Diaz reports, “The $3.1 billion acquisition, announced late Friday, would combine the largest providers of online advertising and create a dominant force, Microsoft said. ‘By putting together a single company that will control virtually the entire market… Google will control the economic fuel of the Internet,’ said Brad Smith, general counsel for Microsoft.”
“A Google spokesman defended the deal, saying in an e-mailed statement that ‘we do not believe this acquisition is anti-competitive, as it promotes a vibrant, healthy market for online advertising,'” Diaz reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Laughing… too… hard… to… type!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “elija” for the heads up.]
Talk about calling the kettle black!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pot, Kettle.
Tag: “hahahaha”, “look who’s whining”, “a taste of your own medicine”
I was wondering if MDN was going to cover this story.
But anyway, isn’t Microsoft the pot calling the kettle black? (Or kettle calling the pot black? or whatever?)
The hilarity of MS claiming antitrust. This is a new low for them. It’s showing more and more that they are unable to compete with really good companies.
This is a joke right?!
au-dac-i-ty
noun: rude or disrespectful behavior
example: Microsoft has the audacity to ask the Justice Department for help in curbing the appetite of Google.
You know how it is. Things just don’t work like they used to anymore!!
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Well … I demand that MicroCrap close up shop and give that Twenty bucks (or so) a share back to the investors !
MW: also
Microsoft also complained about Google buying out YouTube and becoming “all dominant”.
Clip covering Microsoft’s reaction of the buyout, with some funny clips of Ballmer, including his infamous MonkeyBoy Dance:
Good thing the Justice department didn’t apply this same logic to Microsoft over the years…. They would have been slapped for real antitrust concerns long ago.
Next time, bid more and win the deal rather than lose it!!
Microsoft must REALLY be concerned about their business going under these days.
Is anyone surprised?
sour grapes
Aren’t Double Standards great? Apparently, monopolies and unfair business practices are only okay if MS does them. Physician heal thyself.
waaaaa its anti competitive waaaaaa were going to have to come up with ideas waaaaaaaaaaa….
MW: fiscal…how appropriate
I’m sorry I seemed to have fallen thru a wormhole into a parallel universe. Microsoft is accusing someone else of monopoly practices? BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Well if anyone knows about antitrust activities & illegal monopolies, it’s Microsoft!
Oh gawd, this is pure art!
This is like the luxury baths of the Greek Caracalla. What a party this is.
Gee… I see such beautiful art in Microsoft’s dismay.
Is that a Vermeer I see? A Rembrandt, Rubens, Carravagio, Vagough, Microsoft is flames?
Gorgeous isn’t it!
“Microsoft had bid for DoubleClick but lost to Google”
And now they have anti-trust concerns? Funny that…
“By putting together a single company that will control virtually the entire market” – meaning a single company that is not themselves…
Microsoft have always focused their energy on building monopolies. This is, after all, the company that controls 90% of the market for desktop operating systems.
Well Microsoft certainly has Chutzpah…
I always wondered what the legal definition of anti-trust was. Now I know:
“If Microsoft tries to buy out a company and gets outbid, then it is an anti-trust situation; if Microsoft tries to buy out a company and succeeds, then everybody who complains about the deal is just a poor sport.”
You know your in trouble when you start whining about other companies aquisitions. They don’t play fair, waaaaaaaaaaa.
It’s all the better when Google beats MS in a bidding war.
R.olling
O.n
T.he
F.loor
L.aughing
M.y
A.ss
O.ff
Yes, that’s it Ballmer. Run to daddy…
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA……HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
BOO FRICKETY HOO!
Cry me a river Ballmer.
If it hurts Microsoft, it is good for competition.