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Monday October 12, 2009

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AAPL, PWRM, GOOG, CSRH, C, CVAT, INTC, AQNM, IBM

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AAPL, Apple Inc. and GOOG, Google Inc.

AAPL and its wholly owned subsidiaries design, manufacture, and market personal computers, portable digital music players, and mobile communication devices, and sell various related software, services, peripherals, and networking solutions.

GOOG, a technology company, maintains index of Websites and other online content for users, advertisers, Google network members, and other content providers.

Arthur Levinson has resigned from GOOG’s board, averting a potential showdown with government regulators over his overlapping job as a director for computer and gadget maker

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Highlights include Apple, Inc. (AAPL), Google, Inc. (GOOG), Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), IBM Corp. (IBM) and E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (DD).The press has reported that Apple, Inc. (AAPL) and Google, Inc. (GOOG) are under investigation on anti-trust grounds (violation of the Clayton Act) due to interlocking boards of directors. There is a very simple solution -- the directors in question (Eric Schmidt and Arthur Levinson) should resign from their questionable boards.However, Google is under fire on a number of counts, much as Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is, IBM Corp. (IBM) was years ago and Du Pont (DD) before that, merely because it has such a large market share in the eyes of the bureaucracy. It should be remembered that market dominance is not grounds for an anti-trust ruling. It is only when the company in ...

Against the backdrop of a possible launch of Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) new smartphone, federal regulators are now investigating if an overlap of directors on the boards of Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google Inc. (GOOG) breach antitrust laws.

The Silicon Valley giants share two directors on their boards, Eric Schmidt, chief executive of Google, and Arthur Levinson, former chief executive of Genentech Inc. (DNA). The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is examining if such connections thwart market competition in software and services.

Under federal antitrust law, "interlocking directorates" is not allowed if it decreases competition between two companies in the same sector. This law, or the Clayton act, is seldom used and difficult to enforce. The typical outcome of violation under the act would be resignation of the concerned directors from one of the boards.

While Schmidt has been on Google's

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