Topic: Doj Antitrust Division

Lobbying World

Bryan Buchanan will start working for Earth Day Network on Jan. 9 as communications director. . . . . . . Bryan Buchanan will start working for ...
William Baer, whose law firm championed AT&T Inc. (T)'s failed bid to acquire T-Mobile USA Inc. (DTE), is the top candidate to head the U.S ...

Acting antitrust chief stepping down

Sharis Pozen, the acting head of the Justice Department's antitrust division during when the department went to court to challenge the merger of ...

Justice's antitrust chief to leave

The chief of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division will leave her post this year, reports the Wall Street Journal.. . Sharis Pozen has served...
Over the past two quarters Sirius XM (SIRI) has had to deal with the uncertainty of its antitrust lawsuit known as Blessing vs. Sirius XM. On...

VeriFone, Hypercom gets antitrust nod

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department on Thursday cleared VeriFone Systems Inc's purchase of Hypercom Corp, after the companies agreed to divest the point-of-sale terminals business to a private equity-backed group.The Justice Department's antitrust division had sued to block the ...
The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit Monday to prevent H&R Block Inc from acquiring 2SS Holdings Inc, developer of the TaxACT digital tax...

DoJ Settles Hiring Probe with Tech Firms

TG Daily reports that six high tech companies - Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit and Pixar - have reached a settlement with the Department of Justice that prevents them from entering into no-solicitation agreements for employees. IT Business Edge blogger Rob Enderle puts it ...
Justice Dept. probes voting machine merger as midterm elections loom and questions multiply The largest voting machine company in the country bought its biggest competitor six months ago without advance fanfare.The Justice Department's antitrust division is doing a post-merger review ...

Dairy Industry Under Scrutiny

ST. ALBANS, Vt.-Testifying before a Senate Judiciary Committee, Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney, who head the Justice Department's antitrust division, stated the government needs to take a closer look at the dairy industry's anticompetitive practices..