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February 26, 2007 |

Liberty Media and Time Warner hit a homer

THE TIME WARNER-America Online merger is widely viewed as one of the worst mergers in U.S. corporate history, at least for individual investors.It didn't hurt Liberty Media Corp. The Colorado-based media conglomerate acquired about 170 million shares of Time Warner in 1995, through multiple transactions, for about $300 million, according to company reports and a Wall Street analyst's estimate.
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May 01, 2013 |

Big Wins

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September 03, 2012 |

Pragmatist

Profile of Josh King, general counsel of Seattle-based lawyer-rating company Avvo Inc.
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April 11, 2011 |

Google's $700M Purchase of Flight Data Provider ITA Approved

The DOJ approved Google's $700 million purchase of flight data provider ITA Software, but imposed conditions including a requirement that the company develop and license travel software so competitors can power their websites. However, the concessions do not specifically address competitor complaints that Google abuses its general dominance in internet searches.
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December 28, 2006 |

Diller, Semel's approaches to pay say a bundle

INTERNET BARONS Barry Diller and Terry Semel run companies with stocks that are headed in opposite directions. Small wonder they take such different approaches to paying themselves. Diller, the chief executive officer of IACI/InterActive Corp., is increasing the risk in his pay package. Semel, his counterpart at Yahoo Inc., is running from risk.
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June 16, 2005 |

New Deals

Vivendi Universal Entertainment will buy IAC/InterActive Corp.'s 5.4 percent stake in NBC Universal for $3.4 billion in stock and cash. Also, ING Clarion Partners plans to acquire the Gables Residential Trust in a deal worth $2.8 billion including assumption of $1.2 billion of Gables' outstanding debt.
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August 01, 2005 |

City's Tax Suit Against Travel DotComs Isn't a First, But Close to It

In filing a lawsuit alleging that 17 online travel brokers have consistently failed to remit proper amounts of taxes when booking local hotel rooms for users, the city of Philadelphia isn't going where no municipality has gone before, but it's not exactly heading into well-charted waters, either. That millions of dollars are at stake in the matter is clear. Whether the city's complaint implicates well-established case precedent and statutes or the still-emerging laws of e-commerce remains to be seen.
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April 16, 2001 |

E-Legal: Are Business Method Patents Here to Stay?

Over the past several years, a number of companies have been awarded patents for how they do business on the Internet. Last year, the Patent and Trademark Office received approximately 7,800 applications for "business method" patents and roughly half of these lead to patent approval. The incredible scope of the monopoly power created by these patents has launched a firestorm of controversy.
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January 17, 2013 |

FTC Drops Bias Charges Against Google

In his Antitrust column, Cahill Gordon & Reindel partner Elai Katz discusses the closing of an eagerly followed investigation into allegations of anticompetitive "search bias" by Google, the dismissal of claims that rock salt suppliers allocated markets and rigged bids to sell road salt to the state of Ohio, a move to block the proposed merger of computer switch suppliers, and more.
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