When there are fireworks at a Capitol Hill hearing, the lawyers sit next to their clients and, at each pause, whisper something that we can only guess is a variant of “shut up.” But the witnesses at a recent Senate hearing were the lawyers: the top in-house attorneys for Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., and Yahoo Inc. And they put on a show they might have advised their clients to shun.
Microsoft’s Brad Smith, Google’s David Drummond, and Yahoo’s Michael Callahan appeared before the Senate antitrust subcommittee on July 15. The senators were examining Yahoo’s recent agreement to outsource some of its search advertising business to Google and share the profits — a deal that had been designed to help thwart a bid by Microsoft to acquire Yahoo.
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