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Europe assisting US with IBM antitrust probe
News The European Commission has confirmed that it has provided information to a US antitrust probe into claims IBM abused its dominance of the mainframe market. IBM said in a statement on Thursday that the DOJ had launched its inquiry by asking for...
[October 9, 2009, 17:51]
Antitrust probe targets tech giants over recruitment
News Apple, Google and Yahoo are among the tech giants being investigated by the US Justice Department for possible antitrust violations related to negotiations over the recruiting and hiring of one another's employees, according to a Washington Post...
[June 3, 2009, 9:01]
Antitrust ruling doesn't faze Microsoft
News While Microsoft's stock price may have taken a beating as a result of the harsh antitrust ruling levied by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson against the company, Microsoft Corp.didn't let the decision cause any hesitation in its marketing efforts.
[April 5, 2000, 9:43]
Antitrust talks all above board, says Microsoft
News Microsoft on Monday filed the first of two legal briefs expected this week to address the pair of simultaneous tracks in its landmark antitrust case. The Tunney Act makes sure there aren't any backroom, smoke-filled deals like there were with the...
[December 11, 2001, 12:29]
Antitrust ally returns to haunt Oracle
News One of Oracle's old antitrust allies has become the company's top antitrust adversary. Silicon Valley attorney Gary Reback, who marshalled industry opposition to Microsoft's efforts to squeeze Netscape from the browser business and who compiled...
[June 27, 2003, 9:30]
AMD: Antitrust ruling will unseat Intel
News AMD has responded to Intel's record €1.06bn antitrust fine from the European Commission, which followed complaints by AMD that Intel was abusing its market dominance to shut out the smaller chipmaker.
[May 13, 2009, 17:06]
Antitrust regulators want a less 'grudging' Microsoft
News Microsoft has made some progress developing a set of documents required as part of its antitrust consent decree, but the work could be accomplished much more quickly if the company took on a less grudging attitude, state and federal antitrust...
[September 26, 2008, 9:54]
Antitrust scrutiny holds up Yahoo-Google deal
News Yahoo and Google are delaying implementation of their search-ad deal to give US Justice Department antitrust investigators more time to look into the deal, according to published reports. The companies gave themselves three-and-a-half months to...
[October 6, 2008, 9:18]
Antitrust: Microsoft makes case for delay
News Microsoft on Tuesday attacked the government's request to push its antitrust case forward while the Supreme Court considers the company's request for appeal. The Supreme Court might take the appeal, but that's a separate question of whether they...
[August 15, 2001, 9:34]
Antitrust: Is Google the next Microsoft?
News Microsoft, of course, began writing fat cheques to lobbyists — including Rick Rule, a former top Justice Department antitrust official — only after its antitrust headaches began in 1997. What got the software company into trouble in the 1990s "wasn...
[July 23, 2007, 17:36]
US Report: Antitrust suit against MS likely
News Settlement talks between Microsoft and government regulators broke down Saturday, setting the stage for the filing of a major antitrust suit against the software maker today. The Justice Department and 20 states had been poised to file antitrust...
[May 18, 1998, 10:09]
Feds and Microsoft file for extension of antitrust deal
News The US Department of Justice and Microsoft on Wednesday filed a formal application for a two-year extension of portions of their landmark antitrust settlement, with the possibility of stretching it until 2012.
[September 1, 2006, 9:40]
Microsoft antitrust judgement: Winners and losers
News Contemplating a market where the old rules may not apply, rivals and partners of Microsoft are no doubt assessing their prospects in a future defined by last Friday's milestone federal antitrust ruling.
[November 9, 1999, 8:07]
RealNetworks cries foul over Microsoft antitrust case
News Last week the EC rejected Microsoft's proposed server interoperability licence - another consequence of the antitrust case - saying that it contained a number of serious flaws including unjustifiably high royalty fees and the exclusion of open...
[March 23, 2005, 16:40]
Oracle faces formal antitrust scrutiny
News Oracle received a second request for more information from the US Department of Justice on Monday, as federal regulators formally investigate its hostile bid for PeopleSoft for possible antitrust issues.
[July 1, 2003, 7:34]
FSF berates apathy over Microsoft antitrust case
News Georg Greve, president of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), criticised the IT industry on Wednesday for not doing enough to support the European Commission in its antitrust case against Microsoft.
[February 23, 2006, 16:45]
Intel granted antitrust extension
News Facing allegations of antitrust violations in Japan, chip giant Intel requested and received on Thursday a two-week extension to respond to recommendations by the Japan Federal Trade Commission. Although the Japan FTC shares information and...
[March 18, 2005, 14:05]
Oracle approaches antitrust deadline
News Oracle expects to receive word by Monday on whether federal antitrust regulators will let its hostile bid for PeopleSoft jump over regulatory hurdles. For Oracle, antitrust opposition, as well as PeopleSoft's "poison pill" anti-takeover measures...
[June 30, 2003, 7:53]
South Korea hits Qualcomm with antitrust fine
News Chipset manufacturer Qualcomm has been fined a record amount by South Korea's Fair Trade Commission for antitrust violations. Qualcomm has had several other run-ins with antitrust regulators around the world.
[July 24, 2009, 16:06]
Intel appeals against antitrust fine
News Intel has lodged an appeal against an antitrust fine levied against it by the European Commission in May. The Commission is confident its antitrust decision is legally watertight," competition spokesman Jonathon Todd told ZDNet UK.
[July 23, 2009, 13:05]
