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Most of the world's complex equipment, including the vast majority of electronics, are constructed using rare Earth elements (REE), a collection of chemicals that is hard to come by. Now that China has a monopoly on harvesting and selling REE, the other countries are left to fend for themselves.
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11 October 2011
09:55 GMT |
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Google Chairman Eric Schmidt survived a three-hour senate hearing questioning whether Google is a monopoly and whether it abuses its position.
Overall, Schmidt handled the hearing quite well, but, then again, this is his natural habitat and it's what he's focusing on in his new position as Executive Chai... |
22 September 2011
05:00 GMT |
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A recent scientific investigation has revealed the existence of massive amounts of rare-Earth elements (RER) at the muddy bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Sediment layers at this location contain vast reserves of these precious substances, which are now mostly harvested and exported by China. A recent crisis that affecte... |
4 July 2011
09:37 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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The general public arguably had little knowledge that rare-Earth elements (REE) existed until a few weeks ago, when China began tightening export regulations for the material, essentially stopping all shipments to the United States, the European Union and Japan.The move caused quite a stir, considering the important ... |
29 October 2010
06:09 GMT |
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With China now controlling the international market for rare-Earth elements (REE), the world is beginning to look for alternatives on how to compensate for the lack of these precious chemicals.Such minerals can be found in almost all categories of electronic devices, ranging from hard drives and electrical motors for... |
15 October 2010
06:45 GMT |
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An important debate going on in the United States right now is whether the country should consider the Moon as being a source of strategic materials, such as for example rare-Earth metals (REM).These are chemical elements that are very hard to come by in nature, hence the name. At this point, China controls this mark... |
4 October 2010
10:51 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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Despite the fact that genetics research institutes and universities in the United States conduct their work with federal money from taxpayers, instances in which they apply for patents on discovered genes and derivative tests are not rare. This has been the subject of mounting criticism, as some believe that a single... |
27 January 2010
07:02 GMT |
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With its hands on almost every form of online service, Google is now trying its hand at Monopoly – the game version, at least for now, partnering with board-game maker Hasbro, or rather the other way around, to bring the new Monopoly City Streets, a game that will allow users to own real estates around the worl... |
8 September 2009
08:33 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has had a lot of success with its Madden NFL franchise. The game sold very well every year since it was released and its launch date is a cause for celebration and queues every year for gamers. Sony, one of the big three console manufacturers, is rumored to even be using this year's date as an oc... |
16 July 2009
18:31 GMT |
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With access to clean water and sanitation being one of the largest problems in the world today, gaining access to the precious resource, which is basically what keeps us alive, could soon become a problem. Despite not acknowledging the issue of global warming publicly, so as to avoid having to take action and reduce ... |
1 July 2009
02:49 GMT |
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While Microsoft faces increasing problems on the European front in its face-off with antitrust regulators, it might just get a break on home ground. President Barack Obama's nomination for the position of U.S. antitrust chief, Christine A. Varney, was cited by Bloomberg as saying that Google is the next Microsof... |
18 February 2009
04:30 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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The Fair Trade Commission of Japan announces that it has fined Sharp, the big electronic manufacturer, 261 milllion Yen, which is about 3 million dollars, because the company was judged to have rigged prices for LCD modules used in the manufacturing of both the original Nintendo DS and of the newer DS Lite. The fine ... |
22 December 2008
11:51 GMT |
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The DRAM industry has been going through rough times, as the prices have been continuously dropping on the Taiwan market until a few days ago, and the competition has also become fiercer. As previously reported, DRAM makers face oversupply and lack of cash, which drives them into great losses. Some of them have alrea... |
22 December 2008
06:58 GMT |
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EA Mobile announces the development of two games for the T-Mobile G1 with Google, the first Android-powered mobile phone. Tetris is available as of today and Bejeweled and MONOPOLY Here & Now Edition will become available in November. Finally, the global addictive hit Tetris becomes available on Android platform. A t... |
30 October 2008
04:41 GMT |
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When it rains legal problems on Electronic Arts, it really pours. The company has recently come under Federal Trade Commission investigation because of its attempt to take over Take Two. And now, another investigation is threatening the very heart of Electronic Arts, its sports division. Gamers in Washington, D.C. an... |
12 June 2008
15:56 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced that it is developing a Monopoly game for the Xbox 360, Wii and PlayStation 2 game consoles, for mobile devices and for its online casual games portal called Pogo. The game will be released sometime during fall and is based on the Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition revision of the b... |
24 April 2008
18:11 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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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
03:16 GMT |
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Is it curtains for the Internet Explorer and Windows marriage? Did Norway-based browser developer Opera managed to indeed plant the seeds of a divorce between IE and Windows? Well, Microsoft is not in any rush to strip its proprietary browser from the Windows operating system. In fact, the Redmond company has reacted... |
14 January 2008
12:33 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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Vodafone just won't give up on that iPhone. The operator just won an interim injunction that will prevent T-Mobile from selling Apple's phone in Germany during these holiday seasons.Vodafone seems to be against T-Mobile's decision of forcing iPhone buyers to go with their contracts if interested to buy... |
20 November 2007
11:17 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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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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AMD is trying to capitalize as much as possible on the European Union's antitrust charges against Intel. That's why it commissioned a study that reports Intel's financial position compared to AMD's. Just published, this study claims that almost half of Intel's profits are ill gained, as a dir... |
3 August 2007
02:04 GMT |
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At the moment, the global IT market is PC-dominated, and probably will stay this way a long time from now. However, Apple has made substantial progress by providing customers with high-quality hardware and software products that challenge quite a bit the competition. However, numbers are a huge draw-back for the Cup... |
2 March 2007
10:47 GMT |
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