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What Dangers Lurk in Tech Company Emails?
Investors need to be wary when government investigators come sniffing around.
Government probes are unpredictable because no one knows what they will find.
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It hasn’t even been two weeks since news outlets started to report that U.S. antitrust authorities were carving up their turf to pursue possible monopoly investigations into Google, Facebook Inc. and other U.S. technology titans.
Investors panicked for a day, but the regulatory risk has settled into background noise. It’s this nagging but probably-not-immediately-terrible danger.