This paper will examine three recent instances involving competition concerns on the Internet. The Internet at its … the emergence of major Internet corporations, and on the other the recognition of the Internet as an important trading … applications for its devices (i.e. the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch); and the circumstances surrounding the merger between popular …

NHN Corp. is a top Internet portal operator in Korea. The Internet giant was created by merging Naver, the search … engine company, with, Hangame, the game portal company, in early 2000s. The merger was evaluated as one of the most …. Then the portal site secured the market leader position not long after the merger and has held a market share of over 70 …

Department of Justice have acknowledged the rigors of monitoring dynamic industries, such as those involving the Internet, but … considerations discussed publicly by the antitrust agencies in the most recent mergers involving Internet-based products and services …. We structure our discussion around the fundamentals of merger analysis: market definition, competitive effects, entry …

We study the incentives for a diagonal merger between two Internet Service Providers, one a wireless retail only ISP in … the other. The merger's effects depend on differentiation in access modalities; only with high differentiation does the … merger have positive welfare effects. We focus on post-merger foreclosure, which, when it happens, only takes place in the …

Network hierarchies in the Internet are often not fixed: two providers can be simultaneously input supplier and … these aspects of the Internet to study the impact of differentiation introduced by wireless access on prices and profits. We … then study the incentives for, and welfare impact of, a merger between the wireless provider and a local bottleneck fixed …

would identify significant offsetting harms to “free” Internet services like that offered by Facebook and Google. The paper … agencies and courts calibrate empirical measures of prospective costs and benefits to consumers from a proposed merger by …