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• EC reshuffle bumps antitrust chief Kroes

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 166
  Neelie Kroes, who is best known for handling the European Unions antitrust case against Microsoft, is designated as the new digital agenda commissioner.
  3 hours ago

• Local Startup Culture Tied to Bay Area VCs, AirHop Looks to Next-Generation Wireless, SDG&E Strikes Out in Bid for Grant, & More San Diego BizTech News

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 702
  Roundup , funding , wireless Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: For a week shortened by the Thanksgiving holiday, we still had lots of news about venture funding deals, views on startup failures and San Diego’s innovation culture, and Qualcomm getting a reprieve from European regulators. Get our rundown of the ...
  6 hours ago

• East Side Bomb Zone Is Hit Twice

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 469
  Bombs exploded in two tenement buildings yesterday in a Manhattan district that Police Headquarters has taken to calling the Bomb Zone - east of Second Avenue from 11th to 14th Streets.
  12 hours ago

• Monsanto draws U.S. antitrust scrutiny

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 567
  11-29-2009 • United Press International WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (UPI) — Antitrust scrutiny of agriculture conglomerate Monsanto has high stakes for U.S. farmers and its competitors, analysts say. With Monsanto’s genetically altered corn and soybean seeds holding dominant positions in the U.S. ...
  13 hours ago

• Treating Wall Street Like the Mafia

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  Perhaps Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) thinks of himself as a modern day John Sherman. In 1890, Ohio Sen. Sherman set out on a mission to establish “just competition” laws and level the economic playing field. His quest culminated in the dismantling of monopolies—such as American Tobacco ...
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• Kroes Goes, Socialist Almunia Arrives as EC’s Antitrust Head

  
  WSJ.com: Law Blog — Authority: 720
  The European Commissions president has proposed a Spanish Socialist, Joaquín Almunia, to be the bodys new antitrust chief, replacing the Netherlands Neelie Kroes.
  3 days ago

• BLOG: The UK stakes a claim to world IP thought leadership

  
  IAM Magazine — Authority: 129
  The UKs minister for intellectual property today announced a major programme of research designed to explore the role that intellectual property plays as a facilitator of both innovation and economic growth.Speaking at todays launch, David Lammy MP stated that the aim is to "provide the hard evidence that we need ...
  3 days ago

• EU closes antitrust investigation into Qualcomm, doesn’t levy fines

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 162
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  4 days ago

• EU closes antitrust investigation into Qualcomm, doesnt levy fi...

  
  Hobbies Fun & entertainment - fun-entertainment.marc8.com — Authority: 165
  Qualcomm has spent an awful lot of time over the past few years dealing with lawsuits and nastygrams, but it looks as if things will be totally different in the new decade. read more
  4 days ago

• EU closes antitrust investigation into Qualcomm, doesn’t levy fines

  
  F-Default — Authority: 514
    Qualcomm has spent an awful lot of time over the past few years dealing with lawsuits and nastygrams, but it looks as if things will be totally different in the new decade. Just months after Qualcomm and Broadcom settled their differences , the European Commission has agreed to drop a four-year antitrust ...
  4 days ago

• Insurance price-fixing - TheHill.com

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 530
  If any senator threatens to kill the healthcare bill unless the public option is removed, whatever that senator was given for voting to consider the healthcare bill should be removed from the bill. Meanwhile, the proposal to repeal the antitrust exemption for the insurance industry, with strong Democratic and some ...
  4 days ago

• The Unnecessariness of Net Neutrality Regulations

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 546
  My PFF colleague Barbara Esbin has a great piece about why “ FCC Could Mess Up Internet With ‘Net Neutrality’ Rules No One Needs ” in a USNews point/counterpoint debate with  Andrew Schwartzman of the Media Attack Access Project, who claims such rules “ Would Keep the Web Free for Speech and Trade .” ...
  5 days ago

• Senators press EU to speed its Oracle-Sun probe (AP)

  
  Seo, Make Money Online and Technology — Authority: 146
  This came from Yahoo News AP - U.S. senators are pressuring European antitrust regulators to hurry their investigation of Oracle Corp.’s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc., citing Sun’s “precarious” financial condition and fears about more layoffs at the struggling computing company. Go to Source
  5 days ago

• PBS Frontline: The Card Game

  
  WayTooHigh.com — Authority: 107
  Complete info on the PBS Frontline segment called: The Card Game” Click here to watch “As credit card companies face rising public anger, new regulation from Washington and staggering new rates of default and bankruptcy, FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman investigates the future of the massive consumer ...
  5 days ago

• Our Questions About the AIG Bailout (Partial List)

  
  Blawgletter — Authority: 127
  This has nothing to do with AIG.  Or does it?   The Special Investigator General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program issued an audit report last week.  The paper -- " Factors Affecting Efforts to Limit Payments to AIG Counterparties " -- goes 47 pages to explain why the Federal Reserve and its good friend ...
  5 days ago

• Datel sues Microsoft over XBOX lockout. Kodak for tethered appliances?

  
  Antitrust Review — Authority: 410
  Here is an interesting complaint , in which Datel alleges that MSFT retroactively disabled Datel’s memory cards for the XBOX 360 to protect MSFT’s own aftermarket sales. The primary claims are monopolization of the aftermarket for XBOX accessories and tying, based on (i) total manufacturer control of the ...
  5 days ago

• European Union Drops Qualcomm Case

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 702
  wireless , technology licensing , European Union Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: Word from Brussels today has removed a big unknown that was weighing on San Diego wireless giant Qualcomm and its global technology licensing strategy. European Union antitrust regulators say they are dropping their investigation into ...
  5 days ago

• European Union Accuses Standard & Poor’s of Violating Antitrust Rules

  
  Ethisphere Ethics News & Commentary Blog — Authority: 104
  The European Union has begun an investigation into whether or not Standard & Poor’s, the international credit rating company, has violated antitrust laws by overcharging its customers for the use of Cusip numbers. Cusip numbers, nine digit numbers assigned to companies’ securities in order to help track ...
  5 days ago

• EC Drops Antitrust Case Against Qualcomm

  
  socalTECH.com - Southern California High Tech News — Authority: 514
  The European Commission today announced that it has decided to close formal antitrust proceedings against San Diego-based Qualcomm , saying in a statement that "it does not consider it appropriate" to invest further resources into the case. The EC had opened up an investigation in October of 2007 to investigate ...
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• EC Drops Case Against Qualcomm

  
  Tech Daily Dose — Authority: 602
  Advertisement The European Commission announced Tuesday that it has dropped its probe of Qualcomm over whether it was charging unreasonably high royalties for the use of its patented technology. "After an extensive four-year investigation into Qualcomms practices, and despite the coordinated nature of the ...
  6 days ago

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