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Intel has had its share of legal troubles, but one of the more outstanding lawsuits against it has been dropped, following a ruling passed in December 2011.
Back in November 2009, the New York Attorney General filed an antitrust claim against the Santa Clara, California-based chip giant.
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10 February 2012
03:02 GMT |
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If anyone thought Samsung's global clashes with Apple were bad, they were probably right, but they might be nothing compared to what the company just got slammed with.
Long story short, the European Commission has launched an antitrust investigation against Samsung.
The goal is to see if the company tried to s... |
31 January 2012
11:00 GMT |
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Google is bracing itself for a fight, or more likely, a heated round of negotiations with EU regulators, as they're getting close to completing an anti-trust investigation that started more than a year ago.According to the Financial Times, regulators have a 400 page statement of objections readied for Google. In... |
2 December 2011
11:53 GMT |
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Google's offices in Seoul, South Korea have been raided by local officials search for proof of anti-trust behavior at the company. This time around, it was the inclusion of Google Search in Android phones by default, that got the authorities' attention.
Officials visited the Google headquarters in the co... |
7 September 2011
10:23 GMT |
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Last month, the US Federal Trade Commission started a broad investigation of Google's business, looking into whether the company abuses its power to overtake competitors. Now, there's more data on the areas that the investigation focuses on and they're mostly things that should have been anticipated.Th... |
11 August 2011
09:44 GMT |
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Google is being targeted once again in Europe by companies complaining about the search giant's alleged anti-competitive practices. The latest is a French daily deals site which claims that Google has "illegally" removed the site from its search index and that it blocked it from using its AdSense program.The com... |
8 August 2011
11:11 GMT |
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Microsoft has a reason to celebrate today, with the United States Department of Justice announcing that its oversight of the company has expired as of May 12, 2011, as it was expected to do.DOJ notes that it considers its antitrust lawsuit against the Redmond company started in 1998, as well as the anti-monopoly dec... |
12 May 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has taken its anti-Google stand in Europe to the next level by filing a formal complaint with the European Commission, accusing the search giant of foul play on the search market across the pond. Now, before the “pot calling the kettle black” criticism ensues, it must be underlined that Microso... |
31 March 2011
12:40 GMT |
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Google is under a lot of scrutiny from a variety of government bodies, in the US and abroad. In early fall last year, it was revealed that the Texas Attorney General is investigating the Mountain View giant over anti-trust issues, but the meat of the problem was not known, until now. The full extent of the AG's ... |
17 February 2011
01:30 GMT |
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An antitrust investigation concerning Google ended in Italy after the company made several pledges calming the fears of newspaper publishers. The complaint was that Google was making money from the publishers' content by listing it in Google News. What's more, they also claimed that Google was conditioning ... |
18 January 2011
05:47 GMT |
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In Spring 2010, the Commission launched two parallel preliminary investigations into Apple's business practices relating to the iPhone, both of which may soon be lifted, thanks to Apple’s recent change in policy.One of the investigations in question was focused on the "country of purchase" rule, whereby re... |
28 September 2010
06:09 GMT |
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The IT industry has long been the site of a great many legal disputes, and while some of the ongoing ones appear to be nearing their conclusion, others sprout up to take their place, and the latest among them has just appeared, between ECS and Shuttle, over alleged information leaks.Over the years, certain company e... |
23 August 2010
10:09 GMT |
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Those that have been keeping track of the more recent events in terms of IT lawsuits will know that a number of LCD makers have been suffering the wrath of the US Department of Justice for having participated in a price fixing cartel some years back. A number of former executives even pleaded guilty already. Now, how... |
9 August 2010
04:20 GMT |
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The Federal Trade Commission has been on Intel's heels for quite some time, after charges arose that the latter had been using anticompetitive practices meant to stifle the marketing performance of rivals such as Advanced Micro Devices, NVIDIA and VIA, among others. The lawsuit had been going on since December 2... |
5 August 2010
08:52 GMT |
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The European Commission is handling a fair number of antitrust litigations and it seems as though it just got two more to deal with. Apparently, IBM has now become the subject of scrutiny and it seems it now has to deal with its own share of antitrust charges. The EC claims that some of its rules were broken when it ... |
27 July 2010
11:47 GMT |
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As some end-users may know, NVIDIA and Rambus have been locked in a patent infringement lawsuit for quite a few months now. This legal battle is centered around Rambus' claim that certain products that the GPU maker has on sale, such as graphics, media and applications processors, infringe several of its patent... |
27 July 2010
05:21 GMT |
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The ongoing legal battle between the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) and CPU giant Intel Corp. may finally come to a conclusion if the reports circulating on the Internet are anything to go by. The FTC accused the company, back in December, of engaging in illegal means of stifling competition on the CPU and GPU market... |
22 July 2010
05:59 GMT |
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The ongoing month, if one were to count out Computex, may have come out as either somewhat dull or packed, mostly because IT news has consisted of nothing much besides consecutive product launches and related rumors. Unfortunately, the development that has now come to freshen up the industry, in a manner of speaking... |
29 June 2010
08:25 GMT |
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Nero has debuted legal action against MPEG-LA, alleging that the organization is abusing its monopoly position. As many other companies dealing with multimedia content, Nero has licensed the use of technology from MPEG-LA for its products. In fact, according to Sullivan & Cromwell's Garrard Beeney, the lawyer re... |
25 May 2010
05:50 GMT |
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There have been multiple investigations and charges of price fixing over the years, and while most of them were either dropped or are still not over, some are moving swiftly towards conclusion. Such is the case with the EU's actions against the memory chip cartel made up of Samsung Electronics, Hynix Semiconduct... |
18 May 2010
06:48 GMT |
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A United States judge from a District Court has ruled that Datel, a company making videogame console accessories, can go ahead with an antitrust case it brought against Microsoft, in which the creator of the Xbox 360 home gaming console is accused of using its dominating position to block access to the accessory mark... |
28 April 2010
03:54 GMT |
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While Intel and NVIDIA may have, at one time, been on more or less good terms with each other, this is obviously no longer the case, now that the former has started a litigation over NVIDIA's rights to manufacture chipsets. Now, the Santa Clara GPU maker is openly supporting all court actions against the CPU dev... |
15 March 2010
10:25 GMT |
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It seems that there is never a dull moment in the IT industry, as there is also someone, somewhere with enough of a reason to give the Court some work to do. While Intel and NVIDIA keep fighting over chipsets and AMD accuses the latter of bribing game developers, there seem to be even more shadiness going on in other... |
15 March 2010
09:32 GMT |
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Microsoft indicated that its involvement in getting antitrust regulators on both sides of the Atlantic ocean to take a closer look at Google doesn’t contribute in the least to dismissing anti-monopoly concerns. Obviously, the Redmond company is no stranger to antitrust problems, having already faced severe pena... |
1 March 2010
06:39 GMT |
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The heated battle between the FTC and Intel is still going strong, with both parties making their respective moves, motions and complaints. A more recent development had Intel filing a motion through which it tried to exclude Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch from the case, on the grounds that the latter had served as Int... |
30 January 2010
05:57 GMT |
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Not too long ago, the Federal Trade Commission filed an antitrust lawsuit against Intel Corp. on the grounds that the latter had been using anticompetitive tactics in order to ensure and/or strengthen in monopoly. The FTC claimed that it was seeking a ruling aimed to prevent Intel from similar tactics in the future. ... |
19 December 2009
04:15 GMT |
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Just yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission filed its own antitrust lawsuit against Intel, claiming that the chip maker engaged in anticompetitive tactics in order to keep and/or strengthen its monopoly on the CPU market. The FTC also alludes to Intel possibly feeling threatened by the advent of GPUs, which, the Com... |
17 December 2009
03:48 GMT |
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Those who follow the news must know that, yesterday, Intel was hit by yet another antitrust case. The plaintiff is none other than the Federal Trade Commission. The accusations include alleged threats and incentives directed by Intel towards large manufacturers, such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM, in order to lea... |
17 December 2009
02:56 GMT |
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Everyone already knows that with great power comes great responsibility. However, what some people may not have yet realized is that with great power also comes a rather large heap of problems. Intel has been learning this lesson for the past several years and, again, it is faced with this grim reality now that it ha... |
16 December 2009
11:29 GMT |
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Only a month ago, end-users worldwide likely could not believe it when Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices announced settlement of all cross-patent and antitrust disputes. Still, the deal was made and now, just four weeks after it was decided, Intel is already delivering on the agreement: it has paid AMD the $1.25... |
14 December 2009
11:11 GMT |
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In the wake of the joint investigation carried out by the Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s San Francisco Field Office and the FBI in San Francisco, six companies have pleaded guilty so far or agreed to plead guilty when charged with participating in the LCD price-fixing conspiracy, which ran between S... |
10 December 2009
05:25 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices finally has the means to stabilize its foothold in the IT industry by reducing its debts and making certain investments meant to improve its overall budget. It seems that the CPU maker is in quite a rush to settle its most dire financial difficulties, seeing how it won't be wasting any tim... |
20 November 2009
05:27 GMT |
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Douglas Melamed, well-known antitrust and corporate government relations specialist, was hired by the Intel Corporation yesterday. He was appointed nothing less than the position of senior vice president and general counsel. This move by the IT enterprise seems to suggest that it is nowhere near the end of its lo... |
14 November 2009
04:29 GMT |
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An antitrust case against Microsoft over the discontinued availability of Windows XP was extremely short lived. At the start of June 2009, it appeared that the Redmond-based company’s decision to stop selling XP in favor of Windows Vista had come back with a boomerang effect, as the software giant found itself ... |
8 September 2009
08:23 GMT |
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With the increasing pressure from competitors and various organizations it was bound to happen eventually so now Google is getting investigated by competition authorities. But, while most of the attention has been focused on the US, it’s the Italians that made the first move after several newspapers complained ... |
28 August 2009
02:52 GMT |
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The US Department of Justice has launched a formal investigation among antitrust concerns about the settlement Google made with a number of authors and book publishing companies. The $125 million deal would allow the search giant to scan any book and become the exclusive provider of digital copies of the out-of-print... |
3 July 2009
05:00 GMT |
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With a new edition of Windows 7 tailored especially for Europe, Microsoft revealed that with this release of its Windows client, it was doing things differentially. The company is attempting to fall in line with the antimonopoly regulations imposed by the European Antitrust Commission, which found the Windows-Interne... |
25 June 2009
12:16 GMT |
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The European Antitrust Commission has responded officially to Microsoft's plans to cut Internet Explorer from the Windows 7 editions that will be sold in Europe, pointing the finger at the company and accusing it of providing less choice for consumers. On June 11th, 2009, the Redmond company indicated that in or... |
12 June 2009
10:50 GMT |
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The now discontinued Windows XP is staging a comeback to haunt its maker. Microsoft managed to generate an antitrust probe against itself when it went ahead with plans to discontinue the availability of Windows XP through retail and OEM channels. The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service has announced that it has star... |
5 June 2009
06:57 GMT |
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Santa Clara, California-based Intel, the world's leading vendor of computer processors, has been found guilty of illegal practices by the European Commission, which has imposed a record US$1.45 billion fine on the chipmaker. The commission also ordered Intel to cease any illegal rebates and other practices that ... |
13 May 2009
07:06 GMT |
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Microsoft's increasing focus on opening up its proprietary software solutions and technology to third parties has not gone unnoticed by the antitrust regulators of the European Union. On March 4, 2009, the European Commission indicated that, because of the Redmond company's “good behavior” inter... |
5 March 2009
07:21 GMT |
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Google is pointing the finger at Microsoft, accusing its proprietary browser, Internet Explorer, of the fact that it is keeping its own breed of open source browser dubbed Chrome uncompetitive and that it is killing innovation. The Mountain View search giant is blaming the bundling of Internet Explorer with the Windo... |
25 February 2009
07:48 GMT |
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The face off between Firefox and Internet Explorer has evolved to the next level with Mozilla jumping at Microsoft's jugular. In January 2009 the European Antitrust Commission served Microsoft with a Statement of Objections in which it concluded that the bundling of Internet Explorer 8 into Windows was a monopol... |
10 February 2009
10:14 GMT |
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Back in November 2008, Santa Clara, California-based Intel filed an appeal with the European Union's Court of First Instance, claiming that Directorate General for Competition had denied the company access to certain AMD documents that, if made available, would ultimately exonerate Intel. It now appears that the... |
29 January 2009
04:30 GMT |
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On January 15, 2009, the European Antitrust Commission sent a Statement of Objections to Microsoft, informing the company of its preliminary view generated by a 2008 complaint from browser maker Opera that the bundling of Internet Explorer into Windows violated EU anti-monopoly law. The Redmond company confirmed the ... |
27 January 2009
11:00 GMT |
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The seeds of divorce have been planted in the marriage of Internet Explorer and Windows by the European Union's antitrust regulators. Sparked by a complaint filed by Opera in 2008, the European Commission debuted investigations into whether Microsoft illegally bundled IE into Windows, in a move designed to give ... |
19 January 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Florida's now-famous Mac cloner, Psystar, has dropped some of its anti-competitive claims against Apple, but only to make several new assertions, sources are reporting.Psystar's most recent filing, which must first be granted hearing by a Northern District of California court judge, specifically omits the C... |
10 December 2008
05:37 GMT |
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Microsoft's fight against companies allegedly selling illegal software has gone sour. Back in May 2008, the Redmond company announced a lawsuit against HW Trading BV and its principal, Samir Abdalla, as an integral part of its strategy to tackle illegal software products sales. Nevertheless, Samir Abdalla is now... |
1 December 2008
07:32 GMT |
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In mid July, the European Commission filed additional antitrust charges against the Santa Clara, California-based global leading chip maker, Intel. Back then, the company was accused of anti-competitive behavior, a charge with which the chip maker was already familiar, as this wasn't the first time that the Eur... |
27 November 2008
05:07 GMT |
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Apple's motion to dismiss a lawsuit seeking $1.2 billion in damages because the iPhone was locked to AT&T’s wireless network has been dismissed by Judge James Ware of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.The judge ruled that Apple and AT&T violated the Sherman Antitrust ... |
8 October 2008
02:56 GMT |
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