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NEWS ABOUT: monopoly

monopoly stories: 15 news summaries

(Newser) - Google’s latest project, a Web-based lightweight OS to rival Windows, sounds pretty cool at first. “But that’s why you should be worried,” writes David Lazarus of the Los Angeles Times. The search giant has simply become too powerful for comfort. “Google accounts for an... More »

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Google • YouTube • Microsoft • Gmail • monopoly • operating system • computer • Google Chrome OS • Google Docs

 EU Fines Intel Record $1.45B 

Chip maker paid firms to use its chips, commission says

May 13, 09 7:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - The EU is fining Intel $1.45 billion for violating antitrust laws—a record amount that far exceeds the €497 million ($680 million) fine levied against Microsoft in 2004, the BBC reports. The EU competition commission said Intel paid manufacturers and a retailer to give its chips a leg... More »

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Dell • European Union • Intel • business • antitrust • Lenovo • monopoly • HP • fine • anticompetitive

Obama Antitrust Chief Gets Tough on Big Biz

In reversal of Bush policy, the DOJ will aggressively enforce anti-monopoly laws

May 11, 09 8:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration’s top antitrust official plans to aggressively pursue a tougher enforcement policy to keep large corporations from dominating smaller rivals, the New York Times reports. In speeches today and tomorrow, Justice Department antitrust chief Christine Varney will announce the reversal of lax Bush-era antitrust policies, and encourage... More »

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Barack Obama • Department of Justice • antitrust • monopoly • antitrust suit • Obama administration • President Obama • Christine Varney • Jay-ZTV

OPINION

Monopoly Cops May Find Google Too Popular to Bust

Google Has Good Product, But It's Also a Monopoly


May 7, 09 1:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - The government is finally getting wise to the fact that Google holds a monopoly on Internet advertising, and has launched two antitrust investigations, Therese Poletti writes for MarketWatch. Google is “becoming almost a privatized version of the dreaded Big Brother from George Orwell's 1984,” Poletti writes, worse even... More »

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Google • Internet • Microsoft • advertising • antitrust • federal investigation • search engine • monopoly

 Academics Fear Google's 'Orphan Books' Plan

Search king accused of rewriting copyright law to get access to out-of-print works

Apr 4, 09 5:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Google's plan to take millions of "orphan" books under its wing has critics crying foul, the New York Times reports. Google aims to make these out-of-print works—whose rights holders are unknown or cannot be found—part of its mammoth online bookstore and library, a plan some academics say... More »

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copyright • monopoly • book • Google Book Search • online book • library

UK Breaks Up London Airport Monopoly

Gov't watchdog forces Heathrow owner to sell 2 other facilities

Mar 19, 09 6:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Britain's competition authority has ordered the country's largest airport operator to sell two London airports, reports the Guardian, in the biggest shakeup of air travel in decades. BAA will retain Heathrow but must sell Gatwick and Stansted airports, along with a Scottish facility. The watchdog said that only a radical... More »

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United Kingdom • airport • monopoly • Heathrow Airport • Gatwick

 FTC Challenges 
 Payments to 
 Delay Generics 

Deal to keep generic drug off the market is anti-competitive, regulators say

Feb 3, 09 9:25 AM CST
(Newser) - The Federal Trade Commission, pledging to oppose “pay-for-delay” agreements, filed suit against a brand-name testosterone-replacement drug manufacturer for paying three competitors to delay introductions of generic versions, the Washington Post reports. Nearly half of settlements between brand-name drug-makers and their generic counterparts in 2006 and 2007 resulted in such... More »

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pharmaceutical companies • FTC • generic drugs • monopoly • antitrust suit • pharmaceutical industry • Solvay Pharmaceuticals

Yahoo, Google Rejigger Ad Partnership to Stick to Rules

Deal scaled back in effort to appease anti-trust regulators

Nov 4, 08 2:12 AM CST
(Newser) - Yahoo and Google have scaled back their ad partnership in a bid to satisfy regulators concerned that the deal will run afoul of anti-monopoly rules, insiders tell the Wall Street Journal. The new deal caps the amount of revenue Yahoo can earn from the deal at 25%, and slashes the... More »

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Yahoo • Google • advertising • online advertising • monopoly • online search

 FTC Opens Antitrust Investigation of Intel

Smaller rival AMD has long accused it of unfair practices

Jun 6, 08 2:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - The FTC has opened a formal investigation of Intel over allegations of monopolistic business practices, the Wall Street Journal reports. The world's biggest semiconductor company, which denies any wrongdoing, received a subpoena this week. Intel also learned that it faces a $25.4 million antitrust fine from South Korea, even... More »

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South Korea • Intel • antitrust • competition • FTC • monopoly • Advanced Micro Devices • microprocessors • monopolistic practices

OPINION

Boeing Doesn't Deserve Military Monopoly

Lawmakers are angry, but making aircraft giant compete is a good thing

Mar 9, 08 9:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - There’s fury on Capitol Hill (and the campaign trail) over a $40 billion Air Force contract going to a European team, Mark Thompson notes in Time, but it’s entirely appropriate for the military to get the best technology it can. Indeed, anger over the snub to Boeing shows... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • Boeing • Toyota • Air Force • outsourcing • Airbus • Northrop Grumman • monopoly • contract • tanker aircraft • Dave Hobson

New York Latest to Investigate Intel Practices

Chip-maker's effort to squeeze competition is focus of probes

Jan 10, 08 2:09 PM CST
(Newser) - With proceedings already underway against Intel Corp. in Europe and Asia, New York's attorney general today began formally investigating whether the world's largest computer chip-maker has broken state and federal antitrust laws, Reuters reports. “Our investigation is focused on determining whether Intel has improperly used monopoly power to exclude... More »

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New York • Intel • antitrust • Andrew Cuomo • monopoly • AMD • European Commission

Microsoft Faces New Suit on Competition

Small Norwegian company says industry giant stifles rivals

Dec 13, 07 4:43 PM CST
(Newser) - An independent Norwegian software company is taking on Microsoft in an antitrust complaint filed today with the European Commission. Opera charges the industry behemoth with monopolizing the market by packaging Windows with the Internet Explorer browser, Reuters reports. The moves comes three months after Microsoft had to pay a huge... More »

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Microsoft • Internet Explorer • monopoly • Opera • antitrust suit

Hey, Google, Search for This: Competitors

Fortune scribe lays out ways for Net giant to fight monopoly fears

Oct 12, 07 4:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - With more and more businesses reliant on Google for advertising and search services, there may be regulation on the horizon for the online Goliath. The solution? Healthy competition, Fortune columnist David Kirkpatrick says, which it's not getting enough of. Major innovation by Microsoft and Yahoo may be precisely what it... More »

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Google • online advertising • monopoly

Microsoft Goes Incognito to Attack Google

Hires PR firm to build opposition to merger; its name is disguised

Sep 24, 07 1:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Microsoft quietly hired Burson-Marsteller to rally opposition to Google’s proposed acquisition of online ad networker DoubleClick—and some are rankled that the software giant’s name was kept out of the pitches. The PR firm sought to convince key players the deal would hamper Internet competition and impact privacy... More »

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Google • Microsoft • DoubleClick • public relations • monopoly • European Court

Apple Takes
a Bite Out of
the Competition

iPod maker replaces Microsoft as industry bully, monopolist

Sep 7, 07 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Apple has replaced Microsoft as the tech industry’s “biggest bully,” according to PC World. The iPod dynamo has shed its rebel rep and assumed Microsoft’s former mantle as a monopolist, copycat, and bully. “Bundling,” a tactic Microsoft used to tie together Windows and... More »

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technology • Steve Jobs • Microsoft • Bill Gates • iTunes • Apple • iPod • Windows • Internet Explorer • Mac OS X • monopoly

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