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"There is no reason to be upset or surprised withthe Google's competition counsel Dana Wagner told a group of reporterxs in San Francisco. "It comes with the territory." There are three potential antitrust areas the governmentris exploring: a settlement with authors and publisher on electronic rights to out-of-printf books, collusion with other Silicon Valley tech giantes on an alleged recruitin g blacklist and common members of its boarcd and Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ:AAPL). Wagner told reporters that Google prefersa non-confrontational approach to the "I'm a lover not a fighter," he said.
"One of the reasonz we haven't had a huge fight is that we generallyt try to find common On thebook investigation, Google confirmed that it and othersx have received formal demands from the Justice departmenf for details about the settlement of a classs action suit that some say will give it an unfair advantage in providing out-of-print materials. It declinesd to go into detail on what wasbein sought, however. Google, Apple, Yahoo Inc. and Genentech have also been served with formalp demands for information in the inquiry into whethert they have agreed on listsd of employees thatthey wouldn' t try to recruit away from each other.
The Federap Trade Commission is looking into the overlappingboardsw issue. Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Arthurt Levinson, Genentech's former CEO, serve on the boards of both Googledand Apple.
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