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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...
Article | 30/11/2011 FCC riles AT&T by releasing report on T-Mobile merger
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has allowed AT&T to withdraw its application to buy the mobile licenses owned by T-Mobile USA, as AT&am...
Article | 24/11/2011 What happens now to the proposed AT&T and T-Mobile merger?
Staff at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission have decided that AT&T's proposed acquisition of mobile carrier T-Mobile is contrary to the pu...
Article | 23/11/2011 FCC finds AT&T's purchase of T-Mobile not in the public interest
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's staff has found AT&T's proposed US$39 billion acquisition of rival T-Mobile USA to be contrary to the...
Article | 17/11/2011 Rambus considers antitrust appeal as stock falls
Rambus is considering whether to appeal the Wednesday jury verdict that <a href="http://www.cio.com/article/694345/Jury_Rules_Against_Rambus_in_Antitr...
Article | 17/11/2011 Jury rules against Rambus in antitrust case
A San Francisco jury has rejected a US$4 billion antitrust claim by Rambus against rival RAM makers Hynix Semiconductor and Micron Technology, a Calif...
Article | 9/11/2011 Critics of AT&T/T-Mobile merger question job gain estimates
AT&T's assertions that its planned acquisition of T-Mobile USA will create up to 96,000 new U.S. jobs are "completely unfounded" and contrary to p...
Article | 5/11/2011 AT&T extends date for T-Mobile deal to close
AT&T has pushed back the expected date of its proposed US$39 billion merger with T-Mobile USA, saying now that the deal will close in the first ha...
Article | 3/11/2011 Sprint suit against AT&T/T-Mobile deal allowed
A judge in the U.S. on Wednesday allowed parts of C Spire Wireless and Sprint Nextel's lawsuits against AT&T's proposed US$39 billion acquisition...
Article | 1/10/2011 Hitachi-LG Data Storage to plead guilty on price-fixing
Hitachi-LG Data Storage has agreed to plead guilty in connection with rigging bids and fixing prices for sales of optical disc drives and will pay a U...
Article | 22/09/2011 Judge sets trial date for AT&T merger case
A U.S. district court judge has scheduled a trial to begin on Feb. 13 in the U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit opposing AT&T's proposed acquisi...
Article | 22/09/2011 Senators question if Google has biased search results
Several U.S. senators accused Google of giving search preferences to its own suite of services over competitors, but executive chairman Eric Schmidt d...
Article | 21/09/2011 Spanish competition regulator investigates Microsoft
Spain's National Competition Commission is investigating whether Microsoft has unjustifiably prevented or limited resale of software licenses, in brea...
Article | 17/09/2011 Experts: Google antitrust probe to shed light on search
The US Federal Trade Commission's antitrust investigation into Google's search engine could shine some light on the secret inner workings of the compa...