November 21, 2007 4:00 AM PST
Google-DoubleClick: Tough sell in EU
Last modified: November 21, 2007 6:33 AM PST
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news analysis "It's quite possible that the FTC will decide whether to challenge the deal before (the Commission's deadline of) April 2," Vinje said. But "the Commission will do what it believes European antitrust law to require, whether the FTC challenges the deal or not."
The FTC and the European Commission declined to comment. DoubleClick declined to comment on whether it has complied with the FTC's request for more information. Meanwhile, Australian and Brazilian regulators have approved the deal.
In a previous statement, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the company will continue to work with the Commission to demonstrate how its DoubleClick acquisition could benefit publishers, advertisers, and consumers. The company also noted it remains "confident" the FTC will determine the merger will also benefit a similar set of users.
U.S. senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), however, sent a letter (PDF) on Monday to the FTC, citing concerns that the deal would harm competition. The senators cited the dominance Google and DoubleClick have in their respective areas of the advertising market.
The European Commission, as it proceeds in evaluating the Google-DoubleClick deal, may have concerns with whether challenging the merger will ultimately be overturned by the European Court of First Instance, which serves as an appeals court.
The court has overturned the Commission before on its merger decisions. Previously, the Commission gave the green light to the Sony and BMG merger, only to have third parties appeal the deal to the Court of First Instance and have it overturned, said David Anderson, a partner in the Brussels office of law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner.
"The Commission is seeking to make its (merger) clearances, as well as its prohibitions, as appeal-proof as possible," Anderson said.
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From: gurfrip@msn.com
To: cern.reception@cern.ch; euro-ombudsman@europarl.eu.int
Subject: Google, Inc. / DoubleClick EU
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:06:58 -0500
Dear European Union Members:
I am a United States and Belgian Citizen and separated spouse of a United Nations Employee who is the daughter of now deceased Nuclear Safety and Control Scientist Gerno Linden past Director of the IRSN in Paris, France.
Google, Inc. a United States Corporation has used it's Natural Monopoly, its banking and security relationships to severely inflict hostile damage to my family with *great and merciless force* that should never be used on an ('individual').
*Showing patent disregard for our privacy and safety.*
The European Union should be aware that there are suits, including a suit against Google's Core System in the United States that present the possibility that Google, Inc. is *founded on Pirated Property.* Further that Google, Inc. is slow to settle legitimate and proven infringements that were the product of [http://Google, Inc.'s Intellectual Property Thefts|http://Google, Inc.'s Intellectual Property Thefts]. That *Google, Inc. uses it's relations and data to violate individuals privacy* and to *provide faulted and misleading information on individuals competing with Google, Inc. to US security services* in order to damage individuals who may make *legitimate legal claim.*
The management of Google, Inc. is wholly irresponsible in the settlement of the above matters and this *irresponsibility toward individual rights is endemic* of the United States Internet Industry as clearly displayed by Google's chief rival, Yahoo, Inc.
*These companies have not endured any scrutiny* by the United States Federal Trade Commission or the United States Justice Department, which Governmental Agencies have become ('The Great Enablers') of unsound, unsavory and unprincipled business practices of major non-microsoft search companies, recalling Microsoft's hostile business tactics were only changed by the EU. These new companies simply lack all reasonable guidance from an information hungry United States apparatus that is unwilling to punish any crimes or violations of Google, Inc.
The EU should therefore seek to *restrict all growth of Google, Inc. in the European Union* until they settle all present and legitimate claims, establish standards of Ethical Conduct and adherence to Privacy Laws.
*Google, Inc. is cavalier about the rights and property of others.*
*Google, Inc. is by no means a good corporate citizen* and its managing principals have sought to
*use their present market position to bring harm and suffering to my Belgian Family.*
We ask that the approval for merger with double-click be summarily declined in the EU.
We have received no Justice in the United States, they must learn from the EU.
Google, Inc.'s EU expansion will only harm and hinder EU Citizens.
*Powered by Google - used to be - Powered by GURFRIP*
The EU should restrict EU operations of Google, Inc.
Sincerely,
James Reginald Harris, Jr.
Inventor of;
You Tube ('unsettled dispute')
Gurfrip Patent ('now infringed on by iGoogle and Yahoo Widget')
Technical Gravity - Theory unifying quantum mechanics with relativity.
GURFRIP is
Global Utility Restructure for Relative Intelligent Process