{"id":318,"date":"2009-05-08T10:07:15","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T14:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=318"},"modified":"2009-05-15T09:02:03","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T13:02:03","slug":"ftc-eyes-google-apple-board-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/05\/08\/ftc-eyes-google-apple-board-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC eyes Google-Apple board ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google acknowledges the FTC is asking about antitrust implications of the ties between the boards of Google and Apple.\u00a0 Though they share two directors and\u00a0compete on cell-phone operating systems, browser software, and online video distribution, Google says there&#8217;s no antitrust there.\u00a0 School of Management Professor <a title=\"Michael Salinger\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/SalingerMichael.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Salinger<\/a>, a former FTC official, and Law Professor <a title=\"Keith Hylton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/hylton_k.html\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Hylton<\/a>, an antitrust expert, can offer some perspective on the tricky situation.<\/p>\n<p>Says Salinger: <em>&#8220;I think it is unlikely that such an inquiry would have been made by a Republican chairman.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Michael Salinger, 617-353-4408, <a href=\"mailto:salinger@bu.edu\">salinger@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact Keith Hylton, 617-353-8959,\u00a0 <a href=\"mailto:knhylton@bu.edu\">knhylton@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google acknowledges the FTC is asking about antitrust implications of the ties between the boards of Google and Apple.\u00a0 Though they share two directors and\u00a0compete on cell-phone operating systems, browser software, and online video distribution, Google says there&#8217;s no antitrust there.\u00a0 School of Management Professor Michael Salinger, a former FTC official, and Law Professor Keith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[637,816,418],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}