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Intel Pays AMD $US1.25 Billion To End Antitrust, Patent Wars
3:23AM John Herrman | In case you were wondering if Intel’s business practices were as shady as the European Commission and the NY Attorney General think they are, look no further than this: Intel is paying $US1.25 billion — plus frills — to avoid fighting. More »
Business
Intel Hit With A Massive Antitrust Suit, In the US This Time
3:19AM John Herrman | Remember how AMD got smacked in the face with a $US1.45 billion fine in the EU for shadily suffocating AMD into submission? Today, New York’s Attorney-General has brought the fight to the US. This is going to get messy. More »
Business
Why IBM Is In Trouble With The Antitrust Police
6:19AM Fake Steve Jobs | Of course Microsoft is behind this government inquiry into IBM over antitrust issues. Ballmer is going nuts because he wants to own the glass house and for years he’s tried and failed to pry customers away from those fugly old mainframes. [FakeSteveJobs]
Business
12:00AM John Herrman | Everyone’s trying to pinpoint exactly what pushed Eric Schmidt to leave Apple’s board—or Apple to oust him—but whether it was Google Voice or the FCC doesn’t really matter. Eric Schmidt shouldn’t have been there in the first place. More »
Eric Schmidt Should’ve Left Sooner
12:00AM John Herrman | Everyone’s trying to pinpoint exactly what pushed Eric Schmidt to leave Apple’s board—or Apple to oust him—but whether it was Google Voice or the FCC doesn’t really matter. Eric Schmidt shouldn’t have been there in the first place. More »
Business
AMD to Intel: Nyah Nyah Nyah Nyah Nyah
4:00AM Dan Nosowitz | After the European Union smacked Intel with a $US1.45 billion fine for breaking antitrust laws, AMD responded in the most mature way possible: By mercilessly rubbing it in on the front page of its site. More »
Business
Intel Smacked With Staggering $US1.45 Billion Fine in Euro Antitrust Case
9:13PM John Herrman | In the largest trust-busting fining in EU history—about twice as severe as the infamous Microsoft antitrust ruling of 2004 and a hair worse than the ensuing $US1.44 billion penalty for noncompliance—Intel has been ordered to pay $1.45 billion by European Commission regulators. What the hell did they do? EU competition commissioner Neelie Kroes said Intel had pursued a strategy aimed mainly at excluding A.M.D. by paying computer makers and retailers to postpone, cancel or avoid A.M.D. products entirely. More »
Business
Federal Trade Commission Investigating the Apple-Google Relationship
3:15PM Dan Nosowitz | The FTC has begun an investigation into possible antitrust violations caused by the often close relationship between two of our favourite companies, Apple and Google. But they look so nice together! More »
Computers
Psystar to Countersue Apple, Take No Guff
9:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | Psystar, prominent makers of “Hackintosh” PCs running Mac OS X, is set to respond to Apple’s copyright infringement suit on Tuesday and file a countersuit of their own, just like we thought. Psystar owner Rudy Pedraza insists that his OpenComputer hardware is merely “providing an alternative, an option” to Apple’s pricey hardware. Pedraza plans to countersue Apple under two federal antitrust laws, hoping to prove that Apple’s fierce tethering of OS to hardware represents an “anticompetitive restraint of trade.” It’ll be an uphill battle to fight Apple’s legal team, but I kind of hope they win: it’s like David versus Goliath, if David and Goliath were both big nerds. [CNET] More »
Press
EU Antitrust Lands Intel with Three New Charges
6:56PM Kit Eaton | The EU antitrust investigation into Intel’s business practices has just got a little nastier for Intel. Three new charges are being levelled against the chip manufacturer, including charges that Intel paid a leading European retailer to sell only PCs powered by Intel, and also paid a “leading” OEM to delay the launch of an AMD-powered product line. Taken together, the charges indicate a “single overall anticompetitive strategy aimed at excluding AMD” according to the European Commission document. This may come as interesting news to AMD’s recently departed CEO. Intel has two weeks to respond. [EU Statement via Ars Technica] More »
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