Sunday, September 26, 2010

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

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The Washington Post and New York Times reportes late on Tuesday that the antitrustg probe is centered onwhetherd (NASDAQ:GOOG), (NASDAQ:AAPL), (NASDAQ:YHOO), and others agreed not to recruitf each other's employees. The stories citeds unnamed sources the papers said are familiar with the The investigation is reportedly in itsearly stages, with the paperxs saying that the government has requested documents and information from targetes companies.
The inquiry is seen as anothef sign that the Obama administratioh will be more aggressive on antitrust laws than his predecessor and Silicoh Valley tech firms are a focus of that The Justice Department is currentlyh also investigating a proposed settlementbetween Google, authors and publisherd to resolve a copyright dispute, the Wall Street Journal has reported citing unnamed The Federal Trade Commission has also asked questions about whethef having Google CEO Eric Schmidt and former Genentech Inc. CEO Art Levinsonh on both the Apple and Google board is a violation ofantitrust laws.

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