barron’s is smoking crack

Posted by Todd Sawicki on May 8, 2007 Leave a commentView Comments Go to comments

Barron’s writer Eric Savitz is smoking crack if he thinks a Google-Yahoo merger would ever get past the anti-trust regulators.  No way, no how.   That would represent 80-90% of the online ad market measure by dollars.  No way, no how.  Does he think the feds would let one company own 80-90% of the TV broadcast ad market?  No way, no how.

Let’s be honest the Google-DoubleClick is going to have some high hurdles with the feds let alone something on the scale of Yahoo as I’ve discussed here.

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  • http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily Eric Savitz

    I’m not smoking crack…I was just passing along the theory from an analyst at J.P. Morgan. I think you can make a case for such a deal from a business perspective, but I agree that it would have regulatory problems.

    Here’s a quote from my post: “You might think a Google/Yahoo combination would raise anti-trust issues. I would think that, certainly. But Khan thinks otherwise.”

    See, no crack smoking.

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