Jon Leibowitz announced his plans to step down from his position as Chairman of the federal Trade Commission (FTC). He announced his resignation after supervising both the investigation and settlement of Google’s antitrust probe. As per the announcement, Leibowitz is planning to leave his position in mid-February, according to the New York Times. “I felt like this was a good time to leave because we got through a number of things that I wanted...
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For Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), enthusiastically embracing the Democratic party may now not be such a great thing, thanks to the Federal Trade Commission. After committing time to President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign, by executive chairman, Eric Schmidt and Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) employees donating heavily to the Democratic National Committee, this could temper a bit, thanks to Barack Obama’s nominee that runs the agency, Jon Leibowitz, a Democrat and former Democratic senator aide. In September, Leibowitz...
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