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• Europeans Obstruct Oracle/Sun Deal

  
  The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog — Authority: 516
  One might have thought European Commission antitrust regulators had their hands full with harassing Microsoft about the "Browser Ballot" ( our comments ) and fining Intel , but apparently theyre already looking for new targets so they can "stay busy": Sun disclosed on Monday that the EC had objected to the ...
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• Europeans Obstruct Oracle/Sun Deal

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 586
  One might have thought European Commission antitrust regulators had their hands full with harassing Microsoft about the “Browser Ballot” ( our comments ) and fining Intel , but apparently they’re already looking for new targets so they can “stay busy”: Sun disclosed on Monday that the EC had objected to ...
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• Against Browser Ballot Mandates: EC Now Designing Software?

  
  The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog — Authority: 516
  The European Commission is now designing software. And that software is Microsoft Windows... Comments of Adam Marcus & Berin Szoka to the European Commission on the Matter of Microsofts Browser Ballot Proposal, COMP/C-3/39.530 -- Microsoft (Tying) * Submitted Nov. 9, 2009 [ PDF of filing ] We applaud the ...
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• Against Browser Ballot Mandates: EC Now Designing Software?

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 586
  The European Commission is now designing software. And that software is Microsoft Windows… Comments of Adam Marcus & Berin Szoka to the European Commission on the Matter of Microsoft’s Browser Ballot Proposal, COMP/C-3/39.530 — Microsoft (Tying) * Submitted Nov. 9, 2009 [ PDF of filing ] We applaud the ...
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• EU objects to Sun-Oracle deal

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  European antitrust regulators have formally objected to Oracle Corp.s $7.4 billion US takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc., citing concerns that the takeover could hurt competition in the database market.
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• FT.com / Technology - Oracle rejects EU antitrust claims

  
  Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check — Authority: 443
  Do you suppose the Oracle spokesperson quoted below actually believes the assertion about vendors being unable to control open source software products?  A formal objection is the first step towards possible action to block a deal, though few disputes get this far and most are resolved by the companies either ...
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• U.S. and Europe Disagree on Oracle’s Bid to Buy Sun Microsystems - NYTimes.com

  
  Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check — Authority: 443
  But will the EC object to the Justice Department’s objection to the EC’s objection to the Oracle/Sun deal?… While the statement of objections puts pressure on Oracle to offer concessions to the European Union, it does not guarantee the regulator will block the deal. The United States Justice Department’s ...
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• Will Google’s deal with Admob invite antitrust concerns?

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 146
  Google announced its acquisition of mobile display-ad company AdMob today. It feels a bit like a replay of Google’s 2008 acquisition of online ad company DoubleClick. The question is, will the Department of Justice’s eager anti-trust crime fighters scrutinize this deal to the extent it did the DoubleClick deal? ...
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• Oracle, Sun, MySQL and the EU

  
  Spero Consulting — Authority: 117
  Who Uses MySQL? You do every day and every time you visit this site or millions of others on the web. Not that it matters and not that we follow such matters very closely, but until today we have never agreed with any of the European Union’s anti-trust actions against U.S. firms. However, today  The Wall Street ...
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• Google and Authors Win Extension for Book Settlement

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  The parties to the Google book settlement, which would legalize the creation of a vast library of digital books, told the judge that they would submit a revised settlement by Monday.
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• Google asks for - and is granted - more time in controversial e-book deal

  
  Press Release Distribution - NewsWire- Caymanmama.com — Authority: 531
  San Diego, California (CaymanMama.com) — Google asked for, and was granted, more time to produce a new proposal that would grant the technology giant the digital rights to millions of books that are no longer in print. Now given until Friday, a federal judge approved the request on Monday in the latest change in ...
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• 5 O’Clock Roundup: Google gets Gizmo, Timberlake as Facebook prez

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 146
  Google has acquired VoIP startup Gizmo – The deal for the Skype-alike startup was done for around $30 million in cash, says the rumor mill. eBay had come close to buying Gizmo as the company’s backup infrastructure, says TechCrunch, but walked away after the company’s founders settled with Skype.Sun – Oracle ...
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• DoJ Reacts To EC On Oracle Deal

  
  Tech Daily Dose — Authority: 605
  Advertisement U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Molly Boast Monday reiterated the Justice Departments view that Oracles proposed purchase of Sun Microsystems is unlikely to be anticompetitive even though the European Commission has objected to the deal. "After conducting a careful investigation of the ...
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• EU objects to Oracle’s takeover of Sun (AP)

  
  Seo, Make Money Online and Technology — Authority: 146
  This came from Yahoo News AP - European antitrust regulators have formally objected to Sun Microsystems Inc.’s planned $7.4 billion sale to Oracle Corp., escalating a battle over a deal that has already been cleared in the U.S. Go to Source
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• Europe could block Oracles deal for Sun

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Oracles planned 7.4bn £4.4bn acquisition of Sun Microsystems is in danger of being thrown off course after the European Commission objected to the deal.
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• Google-AdMobs Antitrust Problems

  
  The Precursor Blog by Scott Cleland — Authority: 470
  Googles acquisition  of AdMob , " the worlds largest mobile advertising marketplace ," will receive serious antitrust scrutiny focused on whether the deal lessens competition by extending search advertising monopoly to mobile devices.  Expect the review process to be a magnet for a host of antitrust, ...
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• Comcast, GE near agreement valuing NBC Universal at $30 billion

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 792
  Filed under: Company News , Media , General Electric , Comcast Comcast ( CMCSA ), the nations largest cable company, and GE ( GE ), the giant industrial conglomerate, are nearing agreement on a deal that would value NBC Universal, the huge entertainment company, at around $30 billion, sources familiar with the ...
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• Bolt of Insight May Flash in Pan at Supreme Court

  
  Blawgletter — Authority: 126
  Flyswatter by Rube Goldberg. Youve heard about the genius whose incandescent idea for a new contraption wakes him in the hours before sunup.  Youll also recall Edison s cutesy statement that "[g]enius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration." Both the insight that disturbs the inventors ...
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• Northrop Grumman sells consulting firm in leveraged buy-out

  
  ZDNet Government — Authority: 128
  Northrop Grumman, one of the largest suppliers to U.S. military, has sold its TASC group to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) and the Atlantic Group for $1.65 billion.
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• CEI Weekly: Cuomos Anti-Trust Witch Hunt

  
  Press Releases — Authority: 446
  >>CEI Blasts Antitrust Lawsuit Against Intel CEIs Ryan Radia criticized New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and his groundless antitrust case again Intel. Radia accuses Cuomo of "using his authority to make headlines at consumers’ expense," and "[delaying] innovation in the computer chip market." Read ...
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