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Article | 9/04/2011 DOJ puts conditions on Google's ITA acquisition
The U.S. Department of Justice will require Google to develop and license travel software to competitors as a condition of its US $700 million acquisi...
Article | 31/03/2011 Microsoft files European antitrust complaint against Google
Microsoft filed an antitrust complaint against Google with the European Commission on Thursday, accusing Google of taking technical measures to squeez...
Article | 5/03/2011 DOJ won't comment on reports of MPEG LA probe
A U.S. Department of Justice spokeswoman would not comment Friday on reports that the agency is investigating patent management firm MPEG LA for alleg...
Article | 2/03/2011 EU raids digital book sellers in cartel investigation
The European Union’s competition regulators carried out unannounced inspections into various companies that sell digital books on Tuesday on suspicion...
Article | 24/02/2011 China's Baidu accused of search bias in monopoly complaint
China's largest search engine, Baidu, is facing a potential antitrust investigation after the company was accused of blocking and degrading the search...
Article | 22/02/2011 Google faces another antitrust complaint in Europe
French company 1plusV has accused Google of stopping smaller competitors from generating advertising revenue by abusing its dominant position in the s...
Article | 17/02/2011 Google still answering antitrust questions from Texas AG
Google is still working to satisfy a request made by the Texas Attorney General's office last summer for documents and information about its advertisi...
Article | 14/01/2011 Report: DOJ prepares challenge to Google's ITA acquisition
The U.S. Department of Justice is preparing documents for an antitrust challenge of Google's planned acquisition of travel software maker ITA Software...
Article | 18/12/2010 Report: EU may delay Intel's McAfee acquisition
European regulators are looking closely at Intel's planned McAfee acquisition and may hold up the deal with an investigation, according to a report pu...
Article | 11/11/2010 Three indicted for fixing prices of color display tubes
A grand jury in San Francisco has indicted three former executives from two manufacturers of color display tubes (CDTs) for charges related to an alle...
Article | 15/10/2010 LCD price fixing probe nets ninth Taiwanese executive
A long-running price-fixing probe into the LCD panel business has netted its ninth indictment against a Taiwanese executive, the U.S. Department of Ju...
Article | 1/10/2010 Sprint leaders quit Clearwire board
Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse and two other Sprint executives have resigned from the board of Clearwire "out of an abundance of caution" after Clearwire...
Article | 1/10/2010 Sprint leaders quit Clearwire board
Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse and two other Sprint executives have resigned from the board of Clearwire "out of an abundance of caution" after Clearwire...
Article | 17/09/2010 Report: DOJ nears deal with tech firms on staff poaching
The U.S. Department of Justice is nearing a settlement with technology vendors including Apple, Google and others over an investigation of their hirin...
Article | 4/09/2010 Texas conducting antitrust review of Google
Google on Friday said that the Texas Attorney General's Office is conducting an antitrust review of the search giant, following a similar investigatio...