The Obama Administration’s intention to expand antitrust enforcement appears to be continuing apace, as a number of reports are describing the opening of a new investigation, one that targets a variety of high-tech companies in California’s Bay Area. This time around, however, the target isn’t anticompetitive behavior in the consumer market. Instead, the Department of Justice has apparently opened an investigation of whether the companies are colluding in the process of hiring, distorting the market for their employees by forging agreements not to recruit from other, similar ventures. (via High-tech hiring under investigation by the DOJ - Ars Technica)

The Obama Administration’s intention to expand antitrust enforcement appears to be continuing apace, as a number of reports are describing the opening of a new investigation, one that targets a variety of high-tech companies in California’s Bay Area. This time around, however, the target isn’t anticompetitive behavior in the consumer market. Instead, the Department of Justice has apparently opened an investigation of whether the companies are colluding in the process of hiring, distorting the market for their employees by forging agreements not to recruit from other, similar ventures. (via High-tech hiring under investigation by the DOJ - Ars Technica)