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Why Google-ITA is like Microsoft-Intuit 1995

by Guest Post on January 21, 2011

This post was written by Scott Cleland, who authors the “widely-read” PrecursorBlog.com and publishes GoogleMonitor.com. This story concerns the current antitrust investigation of Google’s proposed purchase of ITA Software that is considered the Google of the travel vertical on the Internet.

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DOJ, EU both say go slow to DOT on airline alliances

by Charlie Leocha on April 22, 2009

The recent DOT tentative approval of the Continental linkup with United, Lufthansa and the other airlines in the Star Alliance is facing bureaucratic opposition. The Department of Justice and the European Union, in bureaucratic speak, are saying, “Go slow.”

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