FTC Prepares Litigation Team for Possible Blocking of the Google-AdMob Deal

The Wall Street Journal hears from people familiar with the matter that the Federal Trade Commission has already assembled a litigation team to investigate Google's recent (and very pricey, at $750 million) attempt to acquire mobile ad leader AdMob. The concern is that with Google's entrenched dominance of search ads on both desktop and mobile platforms, the incorporation of AdMob would create an impossibly powerful entity in which no competitors could survive.

So far, the FTC has taken...