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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]
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 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 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 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]
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]
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: 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]
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]
Mozilla to join EC's Microsoft antitrust case
News Mozilla has been granted permission to participate in the European Commission's antitrust case against Microsoft, a Commission source said on Tuesday. Mozilla's request for "third-party status" has been granted, entitling the organisation behind...
[February 11, 2009, 12:44]
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]
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]
Microsoft's antitrust concessions are 'pointless'
News But a German open source consultancy that has been involved in the EC's market test of Microsoft's final antitrust offering claims that these royalty-free concessions are pointless as the information is already available on the Internet, is...
[July 13, 2005, 17:55]
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]
Vista marketing sparks antitrust complaints
News Government antitrust attorneys said on Wednesday that they continue to receive complaints from hardware makers and other companies about Microsoft's business practices, even as the software giant has stepped up its efforts to co-operate with the...
[January 29, 2009, 8:12]
EC may extend MS antitrust probe
Blog The EC is to extend its antitrust investigation into Microsoft's behaviour during "a struggle last year to ratify its Office software file format as an international standard," the Wall Street Journal reports.
[February 8, 2008, 15:59]
Microsoft slow to comply with antitrust deal
News Microsoft is falling behind in meeting certain obligations under its antitrust agreement with the U.S.government, the Bush administration said. The criticism, leveled by federal and state prosecutors in a document filed on Monday with U.S.
[January 25, 2006, 7:55]
