Google’s $400 Million Admeld Deal to Get Justice Probe as FTC Reviews

Apparently, Google's planned purchase of Admeld, an Internet advertising company, will be subject to a probe by the Justice Department for its potential to hurt competition.

The review of the deal by the Justice Department comes at the same time the Federal Trade Commission is preparing a separate investigation of Google’s dominance of the Internet search industry. Simultaneous antitrust investigations of one company by the two agencies is “unusual,” said Rebecca Arbogast, a Washington-based analyst with Stifel Nicolaus & Co., adding that probes by regulators are fast becoming the “new normal” for Google.