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Article | 21/12/2011 DOJ to review Verizon spectrum purchase
The U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing a proposed US$3.6 billion spectrum purchase by Verizon Wireless, a spokeswoman there said Tuesday.
Article | 20/12/2011 Microsoft to ask for dismissal of Novell lawsuit
Microsoft intends to ask the court to dismiss a Novell antitrust lawsuit, after a hung jury in Utah could not come to an accord on the case last week.
Article | 20/12/2011 AT&T kills $39 billion T-Mobile deal
AT&T has scrapped its plans to purchase rival mobile carrier T-Mobile USA in the face of opposition from two U.S. agencies.
Article | 17/12/2011 Microsoft-Novell antitrust case ends in hung jury
After a two-month trial, Novell's US$1.3 billion antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft ended on Friday in a hung jury, according to a spokesman for Micr...
Article | 15/12/2011 Novell lawsuit against Microsoft goes to jury
A Utah jury has begun deliberating over a US$1 billion antitrust lawsuit Novell first brought against Microsoft in 2004. Observers of the case expect ...
Article | 15/12/2011 IBM strikes deal with EU over antitrust complaint
Computer giant IBM has made legally binding concessions to European Union regulators in order to avoid a fine for anticompetitive practices.
Article | 14/12/2011 Hitachi-LG Data Storage execs plead guilty to price fixing
Three executives at Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS) have agreed to plead guilty and serve prison time in the U.S. for their participation in a series o...
Article | 14/12/2011 Tech stories of 2011: Jobs, Android and Anonymous rank in top 10
In 2011, the increasingly mobile and socially networked world of technology became more intertwined than ever with politics and the law. Patent wars s...
Article | 13/12/2011 AT&T, DOJ file motion to halt T-Mobile proceedings
AT&T has asked a judge to put on hold the U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit to block its merger with T-Mobile USA while the two companies decid...
Article | 10/12/2011 DOJ tells judge there's not active AT&T's deal with T-Mobile
The U.S. Department of Justice will file a motion to stay or dismiss its lawsuit to block AT&T's acquisition of T-Mobile USA because the agency be...
Article | 8/12/2011 DOJ investigating e-book pricing, official says
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating anticompetitive behavior in the pricing of e-books, joining the European Union, the head of the agency...
Article | 8/12/2011 DOJ questions if the AT&T and T-Mobile deal is still active
AT&T's decision to withdraw its application to obtain T-Mobile USA's mobile spectrum license at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission raises a qu...
Article | 8/12/2011 NavX sues Google again, increasing its claim for damages over Adwords rules
French navigation data provider NavX filed another lawsuit against Google last Thursday, renewing its accusations that the company abused its dominant...
Article | 6/12/2011 Google's Schmidt meets EU antitrust regulator amid objection rumors
Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt met with the European Union's antitrust commissioner on Monday amid rumors that the Internet search giant wil...
Article | 2/12/2011 AT&T fires back at FCC staff report on T-Mobile deal
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has invited questions about its impartiality with a staff report laying out concerns about AT&T's propo...