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Behind Microsoft's
$732M Fine:
Snitch Named
Google

Mar 7, 2013 4:08 AM CST

Behind Microsoft's $732M Fine: Snitch Named Google

EU competition watchdog levies heavy penalty to 'punish and deter'

(Newser) - Microsoft got thumped with a $732 million fine issued by the EU antitrust enforcer yesterday for violating the terms of a 2009 deal—thanks to Google and Opera, reports the Financial Times . Microsoft had then promised to offer consumers a choice of Internet browser instead of making Explorer Windows' automatic...

Feds Sue to Stop Merger
of Bud, Corona

Jan 31, 2013 2:26 PM CST

Feds Sue to Stop Merger of Bud, Corona

Anheuser-Busch InBev seeks a deal with Mexico's Grupo Modelo

(Newser) - The Justice Department filed a lawsuit today to stop Anheuser-Busch InBev's proposed $20.1 billion purchase of Mexican brewer Grupo Modelo, which would unite the ownership of popular beers like Budweiser and Corona. The government said the deal could lead to higher beer prices in the US because it...

Feds Clear Google
of Search Bias

Jan 3, 2013 1:19 PM CST

Feds Clear Google of Search Bias

Company will make some voluntary changes to its practices

(Newser) - Google is resolving the FTC's antitrust probe into its business practices today after 19 months, the AP reports. As part of the settlement, Google will voluntarily license patents deemed "essential" to its rivals in the mobile phone industry, including Apple, Research in Motion, and Microsoft. The investigation was...

Feds Suspect Cable Firms of Stifling Online Videos

Jun 13, 2012 6:12 AM CDT

Feds Suspect Cable Firms of Stifling Online Videos

DoJ conducting antitrust probe, sources say

(Newser) - Federal authorities suspect cable companies worried about competition from online video have acted improperly to quash their emerging rivals, sources tell the Wall Street Journal . The Department of Justice has opened a wide-ranging investigation, and officials have spoken to online video providers and cable companies, including Time Warner and Comcast,...

Google Gets Europe's OK
to Buy Motorola

Feb 14, 2012 12:01 AM CST

Google Gets Europe's OK to Buy Motorola

But regulators in EU, United States will monitor for antitrust

(Newser) - Google's $12.5 billion takeover of Motorola Mobility Holdings, announced last August , finally cleared regulators in Europe and the United States yesterday, reports Reuters . But as Motorola owns so many patents that are vital to the telecommunications industry, regulators said they would monitor Google to ensure it continued to...

AT&T: Forget T-Mobile Merger

Dec 19, 2011 4:33 PM CST

AT&T: Forget T-Mobile Merger

Wireless giant ends $39B bid to buy T-Mobile

(Newser) - AT&T Inc. said today that it is ending its $39 billion bid to buy T-Mobile USA after facing fierce government objections. The cell phone giant said that the actions of the US government to block the deal do not change the challenges of the wireless phone industry, which it...

FCC Moves to Block
T-Mobile, AT&T Merger

Nov 23, 2011 9:49 AM CST

FCC Moves to Block T-Mobile, AT&T Merger

Which means the government will have two cracks at stopping the deal

(Newser) - AT&T thought its muscular lobbying operation would ensure regulatory approval of its deal to buy T-Mobile , but it’s not working out that way. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski moved to block the merger yesterday, giving the government a second chance to break up the sale should an antitrust suit...

Rivals Eager for Google Antitrust Hearing

Sep 21, 2011 11:27 AM CDT

Rivals Eager for Google Antitrust Hearing

Yelp, Nextag, Expedia say company has been anti-competitive

(Newser) - Google’s Senate antitrust hearing is today, and rivals Yelp, Nextag, and Expedia are ready to do some complaining. The three companies intend to tell lawmakers that Google is exploiting its search dominance by promoting its own services at the expense of theirs in its results, they tell the Wall ...

AT&T 'Pretty Confident'
It Can Save T-Mobile Deal

Sep 2, 2011 2:45 PM CDT

AT&T 'Pretty Confident' It Can Save T-Mobile Deal

Phone giant tries to duck antitrust concerns

(Newser) - AT&T is dead set on getting its $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile past anti-trust regulators, and it’s developing a two-part plan to do so. While one of the telecom giant’s hands is preparing to battle the Justice Department in court, the other will be trying to strike...

Google Hires Army of Lobbyists, Also Eyes Hulu

Jul 1, 2011 3:57 PM CDT

Google Hires Army of Lobbyists, Also Eyes Hulu

It lines up 12 companies ahead of possible antitrust suit

(Newser) - Busy times for Google, even beyond its social networking push :

Lobbyist blitz: The company is apparently taking a potential antitrust investigation by the FTC very seriously, reports the Hill : Google is hiring no fewer than 12 top lobbying firms to make its case to lawmakers. “We have a strong

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States Putting Antitrust Screws to Google, Too

Jun 24, 2011 8:31 AM CDT

States Putting Antitrust Screws to Google, Too

California, New York, and Ohio join Texas in starting inquiries

(Newser) - As if the looming federal probe wasn’t bad enough, Google is now facing antitrust investigations from a number of states. California, New York, and Ohio have begun inquiries into the possible anti-competitive threat posed by Google’s search dominance, jumping on a bandwagon Texas started last year, the Financial ...

Google Faces
FTC Antitrust
Investigation

Jun 23, 2011 2:57 PM CDT

Google Faces FTC Antitrust Investigation

Tech giant to receive subpoenas this week

(Newser) - The Federal Trade Commission will send Google subpoenas this week as it begins an antitrust probe into the search king. Officials are investigating whether the firm has taken unfair advantage of its leading position in the tech landscape. It’s the weightiest US investigation the company has thus faced: While...

Congress Should Force NFL to Play Ball

Arlen Specter

Jun 18, 2011 1:24 PM CDT

Congress Should Force NFL to Play Ball

Arlen Specter: Congress should step in to break gridlock

(Newser) - NFL owners and players can't seem to figure a way of their legal fight , raising the very real possibility that we'll have no season this year. This goes way beyond sports, writes former Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter in the New York Times . It would be a devastating economic...

Feds Suspect
Banks Colluded
to Fix Interest Rate

Apr 14, 2011 9:49 AM CDT

Feds Suspect Banks Colluded to Fix Interest Rate

Citigroup, Bank of America often reported similar numbers

(Newser) - The Justice Department and the SEC are investigating whether banks colluded to hold down a key interest rate before and during the financial crisis, sources tell the Wall Street Journal . The London interbank offered rate, or Libor, is calculated based on banks' self-reported borrowing costs. But from 2006 to 2008...

Google May
Be Hit With
Antitrust
Probe

Apr 5, 2011 2:03 AM CDT

Google May Be Hit With Antitrust Probe

FTC awaiting Justice Department move

(Newser) - Google could soon be the target of a federal antitrust probe. Officials with the Federal Trade Commission will hold off on a decision until after the Justice Department determines whether or not it will attempt to block Google’s planned acquisition of ITA Software Inc., sources tell Bloomberg . That purchase...

Microsoft Hits Google With Antitrust Complaint

CLASH OF THE TITANS

Mar 31, 2011 8:25 AM CDT

Microsoft Hits Google With Antitrust Complaint

Software giant sics European regulators on search giant

(Newser) - The war between Microsoft and Google just ratcheted up a notch: In its first-ever antitrust complaint against a competitor, Microsoft asked European regulators today to go after the search giant. Google is stunting competition and attempting to “entrench its dominance” on the Web, Microsoft complained to the European Commission....

Dear Feds: Don't You Dare Let AT&T Buy T-Mobile

OPINION

Mar 21, 2011 7:13 PM CDT

Dear Feds: Don't You Dare Let AT&T Buy T-Mobile

Say goodbye to competition, hello to gouging

(Newser) - AT&T's bid to buy T-Mobile is brilliant, writes Brett Arends for MarketWatch —for AT&T. For everyone else, it's "disastrous," if not downright anticompetitive. "It will let AT&T shut down a competitor, jack up prices, and save on customer service," he writes in...

Egyptian Rage Falls Hard on Mubarak Crony

Feb 7, 2011 5:37 PM CST

Egyptian Rage Falls Hard on Mubarak Crony

Steel oligarch, became symbol of cronyism

(Newser) - The violence and popular wrath rumbling through Egypt are falling hard against Ahmed Ezz, a steel oligarch with a near-monopoly and a close friendship with Hosni Mubarak's son. Ezz's Cairo digs was torched three times, and popular resentment against Mubarak cronies is reaching critical mass—now Ezz finds his assets...

Microsoft Fights Apple
Over 'App Store' Trademark

Jan 12, 2011 2:08 PM CST

Microsoft Fights Apple Over 'App Store' Trademark

Rival claims 'App Store' is generic term

(Newser) - Microsoft is trying to stop Apple from trademarking the term "App Store," reports PC World . Apple executives have had a pending trademark since 2008, in a bid to make theirs the only online software retail vendor that can legally use the name. In a motion to kill Apple's...

Lucasfilm Settles
Wage-Fixing Case

Dec 22, 2010 3:04 AM CST

Lucasfilm Settles Wage-Fixing Case

DOJ targeted studio's hiring deal with Pixar

(Newser) - The force was with some of America's best animators. Lucasfilm, as part of a settlement with the Justice Department, has agreed to cancel a secret agreement with Pixar aimed at preventing a bidding war for top digital animators, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The firms had agreed to notify each...