barron’s is smoking crack
May 8, 2007 – 11:21 amBarron’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.
One Response to “barron’s is smoking crack”
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.
By Eric Savitz on May 8, 2007