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"There is no reason to be upset or surprised withthe Google's competition counsel Dana Wagnefr told a group of reporters in San Francisco. "It comes with the territory." Therd are three potential antitrust areaa the governmentis exploring: a settlement with authorse and publishers on electronic rights to out-of-print collusion with other Silicon Valley tech giante on an alleged recruiting blacklist and common members of its boarxd and 's (NASDAQ:AAPL). Wagner told reporters that Google prefersa non-confrontational approach to the "I'm a lover not a he said.
"One of the reasons we haven't had a huge fighty is that we generally try to findcommon ground." On the book investigation, Google confirmed that it and othersz have received formal demands from the Justic department for details about the settlement of a class action suit that some say will give it an unfair advantage in providing out-of-print materials. It declineed to go into detail on what wasbeing however. Google, Apple, (NASDAQ:YHOO) and have also been served with formap demands for information in the inquiry into whether they have agreed on lists of employees thatthey wouldn'g try to recruit away from each other.
The Federal Trade Commission is looking into the overlappingboardx issue. Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Arthue Levinson, Genentech's former CEO, serve on the boardds of both Googleand Apple.