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Breaking News: Facebook is planning to go toe-to-toe with Google, challenging its supremacy in Internet search. Or maybe not. Facebook is certainly hinting at a major foray into search, which is enough to keep the media wheels spinning. But the company may have nothing more in mind than some needed tweaks … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Facebook, Google, IBM, Joseph Schumpeter, Microsoft | Category: Antitrust |
 Leave a commentWho says innovation and entrepreneurship are lagging in America? Not in the legal profession. Case in point: two national law firms are recruiting AT&T wireless customers to demand their rights to arbitration. But not just any arbitration… Like everybody else who isn’t a member of the trial bar, we think … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: arbitration, AT&T, Clayton Antitrust Act, legal entrepreneurship, Mergers, T-Mobile | Category: Antitrust |
Leave a commentIt’s old news that Google is being investigated for abusing its dominant (as in, 90 percent-plus) market share in Internet searches. Seems a whole bunch of companies that compete with Google are complaining that Big G is discriminating by demoting them to lesser positions on search results. And the European … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Anti-trust, Attorney General, European Union, Google, Microsoft | Category: Antitrust, Internet regulation |
Leave a commentWe’ve long thought that the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) between the major tobacco companies and the attorneys general of 46 states was a bad deal for the rest of us because it gave Big Tobacco the market power to pass on the $200-billion-plus cost to current … Writing in Legal Pulse, the conservative Washington Legal Foundation’s new blog, former deputy assistant attorney general Steven Bradbury points out that the National Football League shot itself in the foot by encouraging the Supreme Court to hear its antitrust licensing case, America Needle v. NFL [READ MORE...] By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: American Needle, NFL, rule of reason, Steven Bradbury, Supreme Court, Washington Legal Foundation | Category: Antitrust, Quick Takes |
Leave a commentIs the National Football League really a group of independent business entities (teams) that can be guilty of acting collectively to restrain trade? Or is the NFL, for all practical purposes, a single business competing against other sports leagues and other forms of entertainment – and thus exempt from antitrust … As if Google didn’t have enough trouble in Europe, the Federal Trade Commission has opened a second front against the company. The FTC’s concern – that Google’s proposed merger with AdMob would allow it to dominate in mobile phone advertising – has little to … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: AdMob, dynamic competition, European Union, Federal Trade Commission, Google, Microsoft | Category: Antitrust, Quick Takes |
Leave a commentIt’s no surprise that Google is now under the competition authority’s microscope in Brussels. This, after all, is the company with a 90 percent share of the explosively growing Internet ad market in Europe. Indeed, back home, where it has “only” an 80 percent market share, the Justice … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: European Commission, Google, Microsoft, U.S. Department of Justice, Yahoo! | Category: Antitrust, Competition Policy |
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Professor Dieter Helm (Oxford) is a very fine fly fisherman, and an even better economist. If you haven’t done so, take a look at his new book “The Carbon Crunch: How We Are Getting Climate Change Wrong — and How to Fix It” for a bit of unconventional wisdom. He argues that politicians and the general public have not shown any real interest in addressing climate change. Helm argues that places like Europe should focus on setting a price for carbon that would cover consumption (and not just production), and that fracking could be a good “bridge” technology for reducing consumption of coal. The book is readable and insightful for those interested in the inside track on climate policy. 
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