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The Federal Trade Commission plans to keep an ear open for complaints now that they have given Google and DoubleClick their blessing…
European Commission regulators reviewing the Google-DoubleClick deal have heard concerns from a consumer group about data privacy worries.
Business makes strange bedfellows. Just in time for the FTC to approve Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, and with it an SEO firm called Performics, the company has changed its tune a bit about how to deal with SEO companies.For the longest time, Google advised webmasters to be wary of SEO companies, and put up this warning at the Webmaster Help Center:
UPDATE: No sooner had I hit “publish,” I get an email from Google confirming the deal has been approved by the FTC. The announcement reads in part…
With every new development in social media, communications departments are faced with new challenges. If the end goal is to control the message – and that is the boiled-down purpose of communications departments – then the expansion and adoption of social media is a direct obstacle to that goal.
A 4-1 vote by the Federal Trade Commission wraps up its eight-month investigation of antitrust concerns over Google's purchase of DoubleClick and approves the acquisition.
