When the deal was announced, Google and Yahoo said they had agreed to delay it for three months to allow the Department of Justice time to review the arrangement. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a formal investigation into the online advertising deal between Google and Yahoo, The Washington Post reported Wednesday The Department of Justice didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Citing information provided by anonymous sources, the Post said that Department of Justice anti-trust investigations plan to seek documents not only from Google and Yahoo, but other large Internet and media companies. Presumably, one such company is Microsoft, which until recently had been trying to acquire Yahoo. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, Microsoft is...
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