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Yahoo, Google Rejigger Ad Partnership to Stick to Rules

Deal scaled back in effort to appease anti-trust regulators

Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal 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 length of the agreement from ten years to two years. More »

More about:  Google • Yahoo • advertising • online advertising • monopoly • online search

 FTC Opens Antitrust Investigation of Intel

Smaller rival AMD has long accused it of unfair practices

Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal 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 as it prepares to fight competitor AMD’s private antitrust lawsuit in Delaware’s District Court. More »

OPINION

Boeing Doesn't Deserve Military Monopoly

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

Time Time 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 lawmakers at their worst, worrying about hometown pork instead of defense needs. More »

More about:  Barack Obama • John McCain • Hillary Clinton • Boeing • Toyota • Airbus • Air Force • outsourcing • contract • Northrop Grumman • monopoly • tanker aircraft

New York Latest to Investigate Intel Practices

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

Reuters Reuters 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 competitors”—chiefly rival AMD—“or stifle innovation,” Andrew Cuomo said. More »

More about:  New York • Intel • antitrust • Andrew Cuomo • European Commission • AMD • monopoly

Microsoft Faces New Suit on Competition

Small Norwegian company says industry giant stifles rivals

Reuters Reuters 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 fine in a similar case in Europe. More »

More about:  Microsoft • Internet Explorer • monopoly • antitrust suit

Hey, Google, Search for This: Competitors

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

CNN CNN 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 needs to avoid the monopoly label. More »

More about:  Google • online advertising • monopoly

Microsoft Goes Incognito to Attack Google

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

Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal 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 rights, the Journal reports. More »

More about:  Google • Microsoft • DoubleClick • monopoly • public relations • European Court

Apple Takes
a Bite Out of
the Competition

iPod maker replaces Microsoft as industry bully, monopolist

PC World PC World 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 Internet Explorer and thwart competition, is Apple’s game plan with the iPod and iTunes. More »

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

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