You may have noticed that Thomson Financial would like
to acquire Reuters. Regulators might consider this agreement to bring up anti-trust issues.
That is, unless they consider the online environment to be "competition. Per the
Telegraph (via
PaidContent.org):The team will concede that there could have been antitrust questions if the deal had taken place a decade ago, but that the subsequent rise of the internet has changed matters, with companies such as Google and Yahoo becoming full-scale competitors.
Sound like a familiar strategy?
It is.