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Antitrust & Trade Reg.

Jun. 9, 2015

Ebay may escape big payout in no-poach litigation

A federal judge may soon approve the company paying $3.75 million for a single, bilateral 'no poach' agreement the company is accused of having with Intuit Inc.


By Matthew Blake


Daily Journal Staff Writer


In September 2005, then eBay Inc. CEO Meg Whitman called Google Inc. executive chairman
Eric Schmidt and complained Google was hurting eBay's profits by recruiting their
engineers.


Schmidt immediately responded to Whitman's concern, emailing Google's executive management
committee, writing he had a "r...

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