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Microsoft is doubling down on its misleading Scroogled campaign and is taking shots at Google any time it can. Google doesn't fight back, at least not in the same way. It's unclear how much damage Microsoft is doing, apart from the one to its marketing budget, but we know for sure how much damage Google&#... |
7 March 2013
08:11 GMT |
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Google got away without a scratch from the two-year FTC investigation in the US over monopoly allegations. But it's going to have a harder time doing that in the EU, the European Commission is not known for leniency in these cases and has punished several big American companies to date.
Google may or may not be... |
1 February 2013
08:33 GMT |
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The European Union takes a very firm stance against pollution and energy waste, but it might have reached the point where people could start crying “enough is enough.”
The specification for the so-called Eco design Lot 3 with the EC, found here, includes a certain stipulation that isn't being very ... |
15 October 2012
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Google is trying to appease regulators and antitrust organizations on both sides of the Atlantic. The European Commission has been building a case against Google for years, sparked by protests from obscure search engines about the fact that they weren't placed better in the Google results.
The latest report ind... |
10 October 2012
11:21 GMT |
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The LCD price-fixing lawsuit isn't even over, but a new one has been started by the European Commission, one that suspects 13 companies of having conspired to illegally adjust prices of optical disk drives.
The first company to give a statement in response to the investigation is Lite-On IT, based in Taiwan. T... |
27 July 2012
09:56 GMT |
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We live in sad times indeed if a lawsuit can be considered a breath of fresh air, but the one started by the European Commission gets that label from us by virtue of not being a massive war waged over trivial reasons.
What we have here is an investigation by the European Commission into the activities of 13 makers ... |
24 July 2012
09:06 GMT |
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Right after the good news about ACTA, i.e. it's dead, comes some more encouraging signs from Europe, this time from the European Commission rather than the Parliament. The EC has proposed a simplified and unified music licensing scheme to cover all member states.
In essence, what the EC wants is for companies t... |
11 July 2012
10:23 GMT |
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ACTA, the global trade agreement that threatened to create serious problems for the open internet, is dead in the EU. The European Parliament voted on the matter today though there were some concerns that the vote would be postponed.
The majority of votes were against the agreement, 478 parliamentarians. Only 39 v... |
4 July 2012
08:50 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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If you all remember when we said that Panasonic had been slapped on the wrist with a €7,668,000 fine by the European Commissions, this is the moment when it is enforced. The sum is about equal to $10.25 million and is what the company got for violating EU competition laws in its sales of refrigeration compress... |
22 December 2011
11:03 GMT |
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Panasonic has been making the news for a lot of things, and now it has antitrust lawsuit fine as an extra reason, though the cause for it might not be easy to guess.
Panasonic hasn't been good, so instead of present from Santa Claus, it got greeted by a different sort of gift this winter.
The company has been ... |
8 December 2011
20:21 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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The European Commission has finally given its stamp of approval for Western Digital's acquisition of Hitachi, but there is a catch, one that involves a production plant. It was quite a while ago that Western Digital decided to buy Hitachi, all of it. Hitachi agreed, but that didn't mean everything would ... |
24 November 2011
02:58 GMT |
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It was months ago that Seagate said it would be buying Samsung's hard disk drive product division and, at long last, the European Commission has gone over the deal and given it its approval. Whenever a company says it wants to acquire another, or even just part of its assets, the deal needs to be approved by t... |
20 October 2011
10:59 GMT |
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It appears that a certain, major acquisition is not proceeding as smoothly as some may like, now that the European Commission has become involved in a less than favorable fashion.Some time ago, Western Digital announced that it had reached an agreement with Hitachi Global Storage Technologies that enabled the former... |
30 August 2011
08:35 GMT |
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It appears that not all companies found to have been involved in the LCD price fixing cartel intend to appeal the decision, as Chimei InnoLux supposedly means to pay the monetary penalty and be done with it.As end-users may or may not have heard, six LCD makers were found by the European Commission to have been invo... |
10 December 2010
03:17 GMT |
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It seems that the European Commission will still have to go through a few court meeting in its investigations into the LCD price fixing cartel now that one of its members intends to appeal at the Luxembourg general court.As it seems to be customary around the holidays, lawsuits are either sprouting up anew or contin... |
9 December 2010
08:28 GMT |
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It seems that the European Commission will be getting a quite solid monetary gift for Christmas, though technically is is a fine issued to six LCD makers found to have participated in a price fixing cartel.It seems that the holiday season is a favorite of lawsuits because yet another one has become the subject of th... |
8 December 2010
11:09 GMT |
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We're used to seeing this kind of conversations between Eminem and Mariah Carey, but it seems that the Oracle-Sun deal has stirred up some opposite opinions between Oracle's management and MySQL's founder, Finnish developer Ulf Michael “Monty” Widenius. After launching a stern and stingy ca... |
23 December 2009
02:39 GMT |
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The Internet has become an integral part of everyday life for a large percentage of the population, especially in the more developed regions, and Europe is no exception. Nearly half of European citizens use the Internet on a daily basis now but one third of them still have never gone online. The findings are part of ... |
5 August 2009
06:43 GMT |
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