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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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As expected, Intel is now being slapped with another Statement of Objections coming from the European Commission, in which the Santa Clara-based chip maker is accused of anti-competitive behavior. However, even if this is not the first time that Intel is facing this type of charges from the European Commission, the c... |
18 July 2008
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Even if Intel's Q2 revenues have been fairly within initial expectations, this doesn't necessarily mean that the Santa-Clara based chips manufacturer is doing all that well. Or, there is also the possibility that perhaps everything is well with the company, and that it just isn't genuinely concerned fo... |
16 July 2008
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Make no mistake about it, Windows 7 development milestones are cooking over at Microsoft. One thing should be extremely clear at this point in time. Microsoft's silence on Windows 7 should not be taken for inaction. Windows 7 M1 Build 6519 along with the public demonstrations of the next iteration of the Windows... |
24 June 2008
04:19 GMT |
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Starting back in 2004 with a 462 million Euro fine imposed against Microsoft by the European Union Antitrust Commission, the Redmond giant has consistently found itself losing battle after battle in the Eu anti-monopoly arena. In early 2008, the relationship between the company and the EU culminated with a $1.35 bill... |
30 May 2008
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Intel has been ordered to hand in more documents to its arch-rival AMD, as part of the antitrust lawsuit initiated in 2007. According to the judges, the new documents will play a key role in finding whether Intel is guilty or not of antitrust behavior in Europe and China.Intel began collecting critical data about its... |
17 May 2008
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Microsoft made a new move at the end of the past week designed to take the European Union financial penalties saga one step further. The Redmond company has had a rough ride in the European arena cumulating a total of $2.5 billion worth of fines, but it has not hesitated to raise the stakes in its apparently continuo... |
12 May 2008
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The legal action filed by AMD against Intel in 2006 got new evidence to support AMD's allegations claiming that it had been sabotaged by its arch-rival on the processor market. According to the latest information emerging from the trial, AMD gathered 200 million pages of documents that say Intel paid its partner... |
7 May 2008
06:59 GMT |
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For Microsoft, no "good" open source deed goes unpunished. The Redmond company is bound to find this out the hard way, via an antitrust lawsuit filed in 2004 by current partner Novell. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to put an end to the multibillion-dollar lawsuit filed by Novell over its WordPerfect application, by ... |
17 March 2008
14:08 GMT |
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While Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista are in the clear, word is still out on Windows 7, when it comes down to antitrust issues. With the exception of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 which has hit RTM on February 4, 2008, Microsoft is still cooking Windows XP Service Pack 3, and it is in the early stages of baking of Wi... |
13 March 2008
11:04 GMT |
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Chip manufacturer Intel was represented by its CEO, Paul Otellini, during the hearings with the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium. The company had to fight the allegations brought by its arch-rival regarding antitrust practices on the European market. The hearings took place behind closed doors, as previously ... |
13 March 2008
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Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows 7 are by all means not on the market yet, with some closer than others to becoming available to the general public. And yet the three operating systems are already in the same boat together. The same cannot be said about Vista gold and XP SP3 that ar... |
11 March 2008
10:12 GMT |
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Chip manufacturer Intel is preparing its defense against the EU antitrust charges that have been issued last month. The lawsuit, grounded on regulators' allegations that the chip manufacturer had abused its dominant market position will result in severe financial damages if Intel is found guilty.The US-based com... |
11 March 2008
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Microsoft's next iteration of the Windows operating system, and the successor of Windows Vista, is in the very early stages of cooking, but still, the platform is out and about. First off, the Redmond company offered Windows 7 Milestone 1 to its close partners in the beginning of January. At that time, even thou... |
10 March 2008
14:53 GMT |
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On February 7, 2008, the European Union Antitrust Commission fined Microsoft no less than 899 million, or approximately $1.3 billion, for failing to comply with the March 2007 ruling until 22 October 2007. The Commission underlined the fact that the penalty payment of 899 million was connected exclusively with th... |
27 February 2008
13:59 GMT |
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Microsoft is getting jabs from all directions in the European Union arena. The software giant has found it hard to avoid the consequences of its "monopolistic" ways, and failed to dodge a couple of financial penalties imposed so far by the EU Antitrust Commission, following the landmark March 2004 ruling. Four years ... |
27 February 2008
06:54 GMT |
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In the never-ending saga of Microsoft antitrust "slaps on the hand," the Redmond company might receive the healthiest financial penalty yet from the European Union Antitrust Commission. A reported fine of $2.2 billion is currently cooking by the EU Antitrust regulators, and could be served as early as February 26, 20... |
26 February 2008
07:23 GMT |
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Intel's offices in Munich, Germany, have been raided yesterday by European Commission representatives that are involved in antitrust investigations. Intel spokespersons acknowledged the fact that the company's offices have been ransacked during the search, but claimed that the departments gave their full co... |
13 February 2008
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Microsoft will continue to be held on a short monopoly leash for almost two more years, until 2009. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has finally issued a ruling on January 29, essentially expanding the court oversight of Microsoft. The oversight, which began in 2002 as a direct consequence of a landmark ant... |
30 January 2008
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The New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo today backed up AMD's accusations at rival Intel of anticompetitive behavior in the CPU market. The city Attorney General today stated that Intel's "potential anticompetitive conduct warrant a full and factual investigation." This announcement comes more than two... |
11 January 2008
03:47 GMT |
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Last week, Opera went against Microsoft by filing an antitrust complaint with the European Union. The Norwegian company headquartered in Oslo wants the EU Antitrust Commission to force Microsoft to unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows and to adopt "fundamental and open Web standards accepted by the Web-authoring ... |
17 December 2007
10:11 GMT |
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Due to near monopoly that Microsoft enjoys on the operating system market, with the Windows platform, the Redmond company has managed to push additional technologies, products and services to the foreground, in the detriment of direct competitors. In this context, the dominance of Internet Explorer over the browser m... |
13 December 2007
08:40 GMT |
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Microsoft has long been a landmark of monopoly worldwide. But this detail is about to change as the Redmond company has evolved, following the various antitrust rulings against it both at home and abroad. In this context, Microsoft has suffered antitrust scrutinies not only in the U.S. but also in the European Union ... |
16 October 2007
10:18 GMT |
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The European Commission surely keeps itself busy as after all the racket and buzz that followed the official antitrust charges pressed against the most important chips manufacturing company in the world, Intel, the same body presented sometime ago another set for charges, this time against the memory developer Rambus... |
10 October 2007
06:44 GMT |
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Microsoft's presence on the European market has ended up costing the company 497 million as a consequence of an antitrust ruling passed by the European Commission antitrust regulators in March 2004. The EU decision was almost entirely upheld by the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg and the financia... |
21 September 2007
10:24 GMT |
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Almost a month ago the Asian computer manufacturing company Acer publicly announced its plan to acquire the American system integrator Gateway for a sum of $710 million and after some legal problems with Gateway's investors the deal is one step closer to completion now.According to the news site computerworld, ... |
20 September 2007
10:44 GMT |
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Yesterday, the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg upheld the European Commission's March 2004 antitrust decision against Microsoft, finding that the company had abused its dominant market position with its Windows client. Back in 2004, the EU antitrust regulators ruled that the Redmond company had leveraged i... |
18 September 2007
09:29 GMT |
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This week debuted with a bang of bad news for the Redmond company from over the pond. The antitrust authorities in Europe have won their face-off with Microsoft. Today, September 17, the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg (Grand Chamber) found that Microsoft abused its dominant market position leveraging ... |
17 September 2007
05:03 GMT |
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Microsoft could end up paying financial penalties of in excess of $1 billion because of its monopolist business practices on the European market. On September 17, the 13-judge Grand Chamber of the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg is scheduled to rule over the March 2004 European antitrust case. Microsoft faces t... |
11 September 2007
07:24 GMT |
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After a summer filled with various monopole accusations in both the United States and Europe, the largest central processing units in the world are now in the crosshair of the antitrust regulator officials from South Korea. The Korean Fair Trade Commission, which is responsible for enforcing antitrust policies in Sou... |
11 September 2007
06:11 GMT |
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In the 2007 fiscal year, Microsoft accounted for a total revenue of $51.12 billion, no less than 15% more than the previous year. And while the Redmond company indicated that its main cash cows, Windows Vista and the 2007 Office System, are the main catalysts of the revenue growth, a reduction in the legal payouts ha... |
13 August 2007
05:38 GMT |
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On Friday, The European Commission served a Statement of Objection against Intel, accusing the biggest computer processor maker of illegal business practices against its smaller competitor AMD. Intel is practically being accused of forcing or making unregistered pays to different European system manufacturers and ven... |
28 July 2007
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