Neowin News Feed for: Anti-trust

Windows RT browser concerns to be reviewed by Senate Committee

Andy Weir — Mon, 14 May 2012 07:36:35 +0100

Microsoft's rivals criticised its choice to confine non-IE web browsers to the Metro environment on Windows RT ARM-based devices - and now, a Senate antitrust committee plans to review their concerns. Read more...

Microsoft back to bundling IE with Windows after anti-trust terms expire

Tzvi Friedman — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:34:46 +0100

Microsoft's anti-trust agreement has all but expired, and IE may be bundled tightly with Windows once again. 10 years later, we wonder how big of a deal this really is. Read more...

Microsoft goes on trial this week against Novell

John Callaham — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:43:19 +0100

Microsoft goes to trial this week in Utah against software company Novell who claims Microsoft has violated anti-trust laws in a lawsuit the company filed back in 2004. Read more...

Google responds to FTC's antitrust investigation

John Callaham — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:54:02 +0100

On Thursday it was revealed that the US federal government, via its Federal Trade Commission, was going to start an investigation to see if Internet company Google was violating antitrust laws. Today, Google responded to... Read more...

FTC goes after Google in antitrust investigation

John Callaham — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:02:34 +0100

Google is about to be hit with a big antitrust investigation by the federal government that centers on its Internet ad division. According to a story at the Wall Street Journal, the Federal Trade Commission... Read more...

Microsoft's purchase of Skype gets FTC approval

John Callaham — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 06:03:53 +0100

The required government approval process for Microsoft to acquire Skype passed a major hurdle today. Reuters reports that the Federal Trade Commission has given its approval for the deal to go through. This means that... Read more...

Google could take $500 million hit to deal with anti-trust probe

John Callaham — Wed, 11 May 2011 13:52:26 +0100

While Google had a ton of good and exciting news to talk about on Tuesday during its I/O conference, there's apparently a bit of a dark lining in their silver cloud today. Venture Beat reports... Read more...

Microsoft's plan to defeat Yahoo-Google merger in Japan

Tzvi Friedman — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:36:43 +0100

When Yahoo Japan announced that they would be partnering with Google, entering into a deal that would put Google in a dominating position in Japan’s search market, Microsoft was understandably bothered. Aside from the fact... Read more...

Intel confident of appeal win in EU anti-trust case

Matthew Hopson — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:22:36 +0100

Intel President Paul Otellini has said the company is confident of winning its appeal against the record $1.45 billion fine which was imposed by EU anti-trust regulators in May this year. Speaking to the... Read more...

U.S anti-trust regulators to test Windows 7 more thoroughly

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:46:58 +0000

The three member panel of Technical Advisers (Technical Committee - TC) to the antitrust regulators which monitor Microsoft's compliance with a 2002 antitrust settlement will test Windows 7 more thoroughly, according to a status report... Read more...

Opera Latest "Victim" in Microsoft Anti-Trust Claim

Steven Parker — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:38:58 +0000

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Opera Software, maker of the Opera browser, says it has filed a complaint against Microsoft, accusing the company of abusing the dominance of Windows to give Internet Explorer an unfair edge in the market. However... Read more...

Microsoft loses anti-trust appeal

Steven Parker — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:07:48 +0100

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Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro (Â£343m; $690m) fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispute. The European Court of First Instance upheld the ruling that Microsoft had... Read more...

New Twist in Europe's Microsoft Anti-trust Case

MonkeyClaw — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:24:12 +0100

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The European Commission official due to take charge of the antitrust case against Microsoft next month has been offered a job by a Brussels-based consultancy that lists Microsoft among its clients. Henri Piffaut, deputy head... Read more...

Date set for EU anti-trust decision on Microsoft

malebolgia — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 15:43:19 +0000

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The European Commission is expected to announce its final decision in a long-running anti-trust case against US software giant Microsoft on March 24, officials said Friday. Microsoft, whose Windows operating system is installed in 90... Read more...

MS Settled Anti-Trust Deal

configure — Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:05:17 +0000

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Found this at Activewin. ;) Microsoft once again may have snatched a victory at the settlement table that it might not have been able to achieve in the courtroom. The Redmond, Wash.-based software... Read more...