Law… Intel Antitrust Suit Filed 4 Nov 2009 Intel has been fighting an antitrust suit in Europe for years (recently getting hit with €1.06bn in fines) and now it must deal with essentially the same allegations in the…
Law… Antitrust Workshops 22 Sep 2009 The last time the DOJ and the FTC devised guidelines governing horizontal mergers, it was 1992. Seventeen years later, the agencies are coming back to the guidelines, hosting a series…
Law… Google Books and Antitrust Problems 19 Sep 2009 The Antitrust Division of the DOJ has weighed in on the Google Books settlement, and rejection of the settlement is urged. (See news articles on it here.) According to the…
Law… More on the Google Books Settlement 8 Sep 2009 The Google Books settlement is generating a lot of ink over the past few days, with Microsoft wading into the waters. According to PC Magazine, Microsoft filed objections with the…
Law… Google Books Settlement and Privacy Concerns 7 Sep 2009 Google has always been a problematic company for me. On one hand, its search engine has become the de facto starting point for the vast majority of internet users, so…
Law… Hiring Practices and Antitrust Concerns 3 Jun 2009 It may not be as sexy as hearing that corporations have colluded with eachother to keep prices high (say in the TFT or DRAM markets), but I see in the…
Law… Changing Antitrust Landscape 11 May 2009 The United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division has signaled a change in how the federal government will be looking at anticompetitive behavior. According to a press release issued today,…
Law… Honest Services Fraud 16 Dec 2008 You may hear, from time to time, about something known as "honest services fraud." Like "mortgage fraud," it's not really a crime in itself. Well, it is, but let me…
Law… Apple Not A Monopoly (For Now) 18 Nov 2008 Hmmm... Well, I can't say I'm that surprised, but U.S. District Judge William Alsup has rejected Psystar's claim that Apple is a monopolist. (Psystar markets the OpenMac, which runs OSX…
Law… LCD Price-Fixing Followup 13 Nov 2008 I had been somewhat curious about the LCD price-fixing pleas announced yesterday, because, unlike the DRAM price-fixing convictions, no executives were named. In the DRAM prosecutions, executives from Samsung, Hynix,…
