Nicholas D. Allen

It looks like the Obama Justice Department will be scrutinizing mergers more closely than their predecessors. The first high-profile case looks to be the proposed Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger.

The Journal presents the merger to be primarily about vertical integration, which it is, however as far as I can tell Live Nation also a ticket retailer. That would make the merger also have horizontal implications.

Of course I am much more concerned about the telecomm sector, where I would like to see data delivery services separated from content delivery.