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Microsoft Earnings Deflated By AOL Settlement
News Despite beating sales targets, Microsoft reported lower fourth-quarter earnings than expected on Thursday, hit by the costs of a legal settlement with AOL Time Warner. The settlement charge relates to Microsoft's May announcement that it would pay...
[July 18, 2003, 14:31]
AOL-Microsoft Deal Bodes Ill For Netscape
News That's one upshot of Thursday's settlement between Microsoft and AOL Time Warner, according to industry analysts who predict that the Netscape browser -- currently at version 7.02 -- will now move from a neglected orphan of AOL Time Warner to a...
[May 30, 2003, 7:41]
Microsoft And AOL Time Warner Settle Antitrust Suit
News Microsoft is paying $750m (£450m) to AOL Time Warner as part of a wide-ranging settlement that also calls for the companies to jointly cooperate on software distribution and digital media. As for the two headline-grabbing elements of the settlement...
[May 30, 2003, 7:34]
AOL Giving Away Spammer's Ill-gotten Gains
News AOL obtained the goods as part of a settlement earlier this year in the first lawsuit it filed under the Can-Spam Act, in a case involving a then-20-year-old New Hampshire resident. In a similar move last spring, AOL offered a Porsche seized from a...
[August 11, 2005, 9:45]
Microsoft Antitrust Debate Heats Up
News In 130 pages of comments submitted Monday, Microsoft competitor AOL Time Warner charged that the proposed settlement has "many loopholes" and that restrictions on the software giant "are inevitably swallowed up by broad exceptions and grants of...
[January 29, 2002, 8:57]
AOL Enters Browser Wars
News The licence was one of many concessions that Microsoft offered AOL as part of a $750m settlement in an antitrust lawsuit filed by Netscape in January 2002. However, one source familiar with the new software said the Microsoft settlement and IE...
[October 11, 2004, 10:40]
Netscape Seeks More Than Money
News Emmett Stanton, an antitrust lawyer with Fenwick & West in Palo Alto, California, isn't surprised AOL Time Warner wanted to make its concerns known before Kollar-Kotelly approves a settlement on one track of the case or a remedy on the other track.
[January 24, 2002, 9:10]
Microsoft Foes Can Testify At Hearing
News In the case of ProComp, she noted that the trade group and members AOL and Sun had all filed comments with the Justice Department about the settlement proposal. A federal judge will let outsiders, including Microsoft competitors, make presentations...
[March 1, 2002, 8:53]
Netscape Hits Microsoft With Lawsuit
News AOL Time Warner is using the Netscape suit "as an attempt to undermine the settlement between Microsoft, the DOJ and the bi-partisan group of attorneys general", Desler said. Desler also accused AOL Time Warner of using the Netscape lawsuit to...
[January 23, 2002, 8:44]
Microsoft Fires Back At AOL
News Later on Thursday, the American Antitrust Institute (AAI) is expected to file papers alleging that the Justice Department and Microsoft failed to properly disclose all communications during settlement negotiations as required by the Tunney Act.
[January 25, 2002, 6:31]
Windows XP To Reflect Antitrust Changes
News However, nine other states and the District of Columbia, which rejected the settlement, have argued that the change is not up to the task of ensuring competition or consumer choice. The settlement specifically identifies Internet Explorer...
[April 7, 2002, 7:01]
Stealth Pop-ups Barred
News The Federal Trade Commission said it had reached a settlement with San Diego-based D Squared Solutions that bars the company from sending pop-up ads via Windows Messenger service. The settlement contains no financial penalties against D Squared...
[August 10, 2004, 9:50]
Microsoft Under Pressure On Windows XP
News But Schumer, whose state is home to Microsoft competitors including AOL Time Warner, IBM and Eastman Kodak, called on Assistant Attorney General Charles James to "not settle with Microsoft unless they agree to a global settlement providing open...
[July 25, 2001, 8:56]
Microsoft Not Quitting Antitrust Fight
News A Microsoft spokesperson said the company "is not discussing anything to do with settlement talks. The one-day settlement talks among Microsoft, the U.S. Microsoft served Sun with a subpoena, requesting Sun name an officer or manager "most...
[March 31, 1999, 12:05]
Tech Industry Quiet Over Netscape Lawsuit
News A month later, nine other states that didn't join the settlement filed a remedy proposal asking that, among other items, Microsoft be compelled to give away the Internet Explorer source code to restore competition in the browser market.
[January 23, 2002, 13:41]
Microsoft Livens Up Instant Messaging
News That is part of a settlement with RealNetworks," he said. In October, Microsoft and RealNetworks reached a settlement to an antitrust claim. Windows Live Messenger competes with AOL's AIM, Yahoo Instant Messenger and Google Talk, which also offer...
[June 20, 2006, 10:05]
US Report: AOL Slips Despite Strong Q4
News The fourth quarter results do not include a series of charges AOL expects to absorb for the settlement of a shareholder suit, as well as write-offs for in-process research and development in connection with its acquisitions of Mirabilis Ltd.and...
[August 6, 1998, 7:39]
AOL: Microsoft Is 'confusing And Deceiving People'
News ZDNN: Are you interested in talking with them about a settlement? As president of America Online's Interactive Services Group, Schuler oversees the AOL service as well as Instant Messenger. You know we started out with IM as a proprietary...
[July 29, 1999, 10:36]
Rivals Come Up Short In Decision
News Judge Kollar-Kotelly made a weak settlement stronger, and created some additional protections for consumer choice and competition," said AOL Time Warner general counsel Paul T. The weak steps that Microsoft has taken to comply with the requirements...
[November 4, 2002, 7:51]
Netscape, AOL Sites Greet Mac Users
News Meanwhile, Apple has stepped up as a major opponent of the company's recent class-action settlement, which threatens to displace Mac technology in schools with Microsoft software and services. At the same time, tension has increased between Apple...
[December 20, 2001, 6:31]
