WASHINGTON, July 8 - Telecommunications companies are being probed for potential antitrust violations. Drug company deals to delay generic entry are declared illegal. Talent-poaching among high tech firms is being investigated. And there's more. In...
* FTC chief says 'the time has come' * Obama administration expected to be tougher on mergers (Adds Varney comment, M&A background) WASHINGTON, Sept 22 - U.S. antitrust enforcers plan to revamp merger guidelines, amid...
* Microsoft may look to extend Yahoo search engine * U.S. and European antitrust regulators evaluating deal TOKYO, Nov 5 - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday the company could look to...
* Oracle's Katz meets EU antitrust chief in Brussels * EU says Oracle failed to produce remedies to problems * Sun shares fall 2.8 percent, Oracle shares flat (Adds analyst comments, shares) BRUSSELS, Oct 21...
BRUSSELS, Oct 21 - Europe's antitrust chief told the president of Oracle Corp on Wednesday that the tech giant had so far failed to soothe concerns that its plan to buy Sun Microsystems may be...
BRUSSELS, July 17 - European Union authorities, which recently imposed hefty fines on chipmaker Intel and utilities E.ON and GDF Suez, intend to increase pressure on these sectors, the EU's antitrust chief said on Friday....
NEW YORK, May 18 - Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive officer of graphics chip maker Nvidia, called Intel'schip pricing unfair but said his company will not seek antitrust action against the world's largest chip maker for...
WASHINGTON, May 11 - U.S. antitrust officials have withdrawn a Bush administration report on dominant firms and "will be aggressively pursuing" companies that abuse their monopoly positions, the Justice Department's antitrust chief said on Monday....
WASHINGTON, May 6 - Google is more than a fabulously successful company -- it is a cultural phenomenon facing increasing U.S. government scrutiny despite its chief executive's campaign support for President Barack Obama. The No....
BRUSSELS, Sept 17 - Online auctioneer eBay asked the European Union's antitrust chief on Wednesday to investigate a number of distribution agreements across the bloc, calling them an illegal barrier to competition. "We have requested...