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Yahoo! divorce’s Microsoft for Google.
codevalley | June 13th 2008 by Narayan Babu
RecapIt looks pretty much like a prime time soap. For month’s Microsoft had been negotiating and proposing to Yahoo!, first came with a 31$ buyout offer, later raised it to 33$ trying to make ends meet. But finally Yahoo! pulled off. Again with the read more
This Day in Legal History: May 29
Fastcase Legal Research Blog | May 29th 2008 by Michael
In 1915, the Baltimore Terrapins, a team in the smaller and younger Federal League, sued the American and National baseball leagues for unfair practices in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The legislation, passed in 1890, was meant to curb read more
You And What Army?
Against Hillary Clinton | May 6th 2008 by Against Hillary
"We’re going to go right at OPEC," she said. "They can no longer be a cartel, a monopoly that get together once every couple of months in some conference room in some plush place in the world, they decide how much oil they’re read more
Law of the Game on Joystiq: EA + Take-Two =/= Monopoly
Law of the Game | April 25th 2008 by Mark Methenitis
In this week's Law of the Game on Joystiq, I take the surprisingly unpopular opinion that an EA merger with Take-Two isn't going to have any practical monopolistic effect in the market.Read more here. read more
Wake up! There’s an Amazon POD in the Publishing house
Authorian Adventures in the Ether | March 31st 2008 by B.L.
As in the classic 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a very nasty rumor from last week about Amazon trying to take over the world with their PODs (print on demand technology) while we sleep, may be hard to believe, but evidence is mounting t read more
Good for us
Markism Explored | February 20th 2008 by Mark Wright
Verizon Stabs Sprint With Unlimited Wireless Plan - Bits - Technology - New York Times BlogMr. Entner said that by introducing its unlimited plan first, Verizon can steal the thunder from Sprint and probably force that company to cut prices even lowe read more
Microsoft + Yahoo leaves Google shaking
OFlaherty | February 3rd 2008 by Paul OFlaherty
Is Google afraid? I believe so! Google’s official statement today by David Drummond (Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer) an response to Microsofts bid for Yahoo sounds to me like the a child pleading for someb read more
Microsoft taking over Yahoo
Everything in between | February 2nd 2008 by zahir
Microsoft has offered to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn (£22.4bn) in cash and shares. The offer, contained in a letter to Yahoo’s board, is 62% above Yahoo’s closing share price on Thursday. Yahoo cut its revenue forec read more
EU drops antitrust case against Apple's ITunes
TheAppDotNet | January 9th 2008 by Richard Miles
EU competition regulators said Wednesday they were dropping an antitrust case against Apple's popular ITunes online media store after the company announced plans to standardise prices for music downloads across Europe. This is great news for iTunes read more
Google is watching you
pure roon. anything, everything and the world of a web devel… | December 7th 2007 by Giles Smith
Quote Is Google getting too big for our good - and even its own? The American search engine is under simultaneous investigation by the US and European anti-trust authorities. Both are probing whether its acquisition of DoubleClick, whose technology p read more
Standard Oil and Google
OpTempo | November 15th 2007 by Frank Carr
The buzz today is that Google is manually slapping a PR penalty on blogs that do PayPerPost advertising. You can read more about it here on the IZEA blog: Google Goes after the Everyday Blogger. What Google is doing smacks of monopoly behavior, using read more
Google: Backed To A Corner On DoubleClick Merger
Tech In Demand | November 14th 2007 by James Mowery
Google’s $3.1 billion takeover offer for the internet advertising company DoubleClick has come to a deadlock this past Tuesday. Orders to have a more in-depth review of the impacts of this merger show signs of resentment to let Google merge w read more
Microsoft's European defeat will be costly!
PictogamerZ | September 18th 2007 by Cyril
Create your game | Share | Play games | Pictogame read more
Microsoft loses landmark appeal
Blog for Bennett kankuzi | September 16th 2007 by Bennett Kankuzi
The software giant, Microsoft, has lost a landmark appeal in a case where the Redmond company was challenging a fine the European Union imposed on it in a fair-competition dispute. What will this ruling have on the rest of the computing world? I don read more
The World Of Private Equity...Part 11
An Investment Banker's Take On Life | July 26th 2007 by Cesar L. Magnaye
On antitrust, is Google the next Microsoft?
Castle Point Mortgage | July 24th 2007 by Mike
Not too long ago, nearly every move that Microsoft made seemed to draw complaints that the company was abusing its market dominance.Now another market-leading technology company is under fire in Washington as well. An unlikely combination of onetime read more
Google: One Step to Anti-Trust
SearchAnyway Blog | June 29th 2007 by CT Moore
Discussing Google's market dominance seems almost like talking about the weather: it's so pointless that it's irresistible. Well, it looks like the Leviathan of Search might be just a hop, skip, and a jump from being drawn and quartered by US anti-tr read more
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