Registan.net (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
For some reason, people continue to solicit, enjoy, and buy into the opinions of Thomas Barnett. I find this curious because in almost every situation in which his theories can be tested, they fail—most recently, in Georgia, where Barnett’s advocacy of replicating the Balkans everywhere there is conflict doesn’t bode well for a sustainable security [...]
Search Engine Watch (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Oct 3, 2008Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) is okay with the Google-Yahoo deal, but he wants the DOJ to keep a close eye on the implementation. In a letter to Assistant Attorney General Thomas Barnett, Kohl, Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust urges: Recognizing the nascent and fast-changing nature of this marketplace, we ...
MarketingVOX (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Chairman Herbert Kohl (D-WI) of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee wrote a letter to assistant attorney general Thomas Barnett, urging that the Department of Justice keep a critical eye on the...
Search Engine Watch Blog (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) is okay with the Google-Yahoo deal, but he wants the DOJ to keep a close eye on the implementation. In a letter to Assistant Attorney General Thomas Barnett , Kohl, Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust urges: Recognizing the nascent and fast-changing nature of this marketplace, we encourage the Department to continue to monitor the state of competition...
Mashable (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
... Herb Kohl , chairman of the Antitrust Subcommittee, and addressed to Assistant Attorney General Thomas Barnett, hints very plainly at the company’s non-success at forward motion. In Kohl’s words: While we have conducted a careful review of this transaction, we do not have the benefit of the confidential business information supplied by the companies to the Department nor the economic...
BetaNews (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
... for a significant increase in its revenue," reads Sen. Kohl's letter to Assistant Attorney General Thomas Barnett. "Therefore, critics contend that an advertiser will have an incentive to bypass Yahoo entirely and only bid for Google advertisements since an advertisement purchased with Google could be placed on both Yahoo and Google's search result pages."Furthermore, Kohl goes on,...
ClickZ (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
... wrote Kohl in the missive, sent to the Antitrust Division's Assistant Attorney General Thomas Barnett Thursday. "If, over time, you determine that Google is gaining a dominant market position as a result of the Google-Yahoo agreement, then we would encourage the Justice Department to intervene to protect competition," continued Kohl. Since it held a to weigh the deal's potential impact...
Webmaster World (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
"At the Justice Department, Thomas Barnett, the assistant attorney general for antitrust, declined to discuss the government's assessment of the deal. "We are obviously looking at the issues and trying to work through them," he told reporters."
Publish.com (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
... the AAI.The AAI is a nonprofit think tank that studies antitrust issues.At the Justice Department, Thomas Barnett, the assistant attorney general for antitrust, declined to discuss the government's assessment of the deal. "We are obviously looking at the issues and trying to work through them," he told reporters.In June, Google and Yahoo announced a deal that would allow Yahoo to...
DealBook (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
... fellow at the AAI, a nonprofit think tank that studies antitrust issues.At the Justice Department, Thomas Barnett, the assistant attorney general for antitrust, declined to discuss the government’s assessment of the deal. “We are obviously looking at the issues and trying to work through them,” he told reporters.In June, Google and Yahoo that would allow Yahoo to place some Google...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
... the AAI.The AAI is a nonprofit think tank that studies antitrust issues.At the Justice Department, Thomas Barnett, the assistant attorney general for antitrust, declined to discuss the government's assessment of the deal. "We are obviously looking at the issues and trying to work through them," he told reporters.In June, Google and Yahoo announced a deal that would allow Yahoo to...
Chicago Boyz (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
... Chet Richards , Daniel Abbott , Shane Deichman , Frank Hoffman , Adam Elkus , Lexington Green , Thomas Wade and Dr. Frans Osinga , who contributed several essays. Dr. Thomas Barnett sets the intellectual tone in the foreword after which the authors brought a wide range of professional perspectives to bear - cognitive psychology, military history, physics, strategy, journalism...
BoomTown - All Things Digital (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
... unit might be more political coverage than anything else. Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Thomas Barnett (pictured here), who will likely be leaving that post after the November election, has not been much of a trustbuster, to say the least, with a mostly hands-off attitude toward business regulation. Thus, he might be making the move to placate intense lobbying by Microsoft...
Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
... Weapons and Are Very Interdependent, A Violent Clash is Unlikely and Self-Defeating." As blogger Thomas Barnett sees it, "Without journalists like Kaplan, Americans might fear the world less, and if Americans feared the world less, who would read Bob Kaplan?" The first sentence cites my "Kaplan's Strategic Lap Dance for the U.S. Navy and Pacific Command," Newsletter from Thomas...
Search Engine Watch Blog (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) have written a letter to U.S. Assistant Attorney General Thomas Barnett expressing their opposition to an advertising deal between Yahoo and Google. The deal, which has come under much scrutiny from the US Department of Justice and a U.S. Senate committee , has Yahoo using Google ads in their search results. Google has said they will proceed...
