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  • June 2008

    • MasterCard to Pay Amex $1.8B

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jun 25, 08 8:51 AM CDT

      MasterCard to Pay Amex $1.8B

      (Newser) - MasterCard will pay American Express $1.8 billion in 12 quarterly installments, settling a lawsuit that claimed it had blocked banks from offering American Express cards to customers, the Wall Street Journal reports. American Express said the antitrust settlement would "help to lessen the impact of this weakening economic cycle." Amex also sued Visa, which settled for $2.25 billion in November. More »

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      settlement  • American Express  • MasterCard  • Visa  • antitrust suit

    • Piles of Evidence Delay Intel Antitrust Trial

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jun 6, 08 11:45 AM CDT

      Piles of Evidence Delay Intel Antitrust Trial

      (Newser) - With countless documents and hundreds of witnesses to sort through, chip maker Advanced Micro Devices’ antitrust lawsuit against Intel won’t begin until 2010 at the earliest, the Wall Street Journal reports. AMD has long accused Intel of corrupt business practices; the delay comes after a Korean court ruled that the PC giant had offered millions in rebates to computer makers for not buying from AMD. More »

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      lawsuit  • Intel  • computer chip  • Advanced Micro Devices  • antitrust suit

  • December 2007

    • Microsoft Faces New Suit on Competition

      Reuters  |  Dec 13, 07 4:43 PM CST

      Microsoft Faces New Suit on Competition

      (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 »

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      Microsoft  • Internet Explorer  • monopoly  • antitrust suit

  • November 2007

    • Justice Backs Microsoft in Antitrust Action

      Wall Street Journal  |  Nov 12, 07 4:07 AM CST

      Justice Backs Microsoft in Antitrust Action

      (Newser) - Microsoft chief Bill Gates has a critical ally in the latest phase of his company's marathon antitrust suit—the Justice Department.  The agency is opposing court action by New York and California to extend judicial oversight of Microsoft's activities to 2012, reports the Wall Street Journal . Monitoring was part of the settlement of an antitrust suit brought by the Clinton administration. More »

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      California  • Microsoft  • New York  • Department of Justice  • antitrust suit

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