BusinessWeek technology reporters Spencer Ante, Heather Green, Arik Hesseldahl and Catherine Holahan talk about new iPods and the health of Steve Jobs, the latest BlackBerry Pearl, and the Google-Yahoo antitrust investigation.
Also, today Joe Nocera from the New York Times devoted his column to questioning the Google-Yahoo search deal by focusing on the tale of Internet entrepreneur Dan Savage. Nocera was right in zeroing in on Google’s ability to set a price floor for search engine keywords. Determining whether or not this price-setting ability can have anti-competitive effects is likely to be a central question of the DoJ’s analysis, as BW’s Catherine Holahan points out in our Dish segment.