3 posts and columns on Antitrust Division

U.S. Sues Apple, Publishers Over E-Book Pricing

in Media on April 11 at 7:39 am PT

The U.S. filed an antitrust lawsuit Wednesday against Apple Inc. and five of the nation’s largest publishers, alleging they conspired to limit competition for the pricing of e-books.

Intel Hires Antitrust Expert as General Counsel

in News on November 13, 2009 at 10:14 am PT

With Intel’s longstanding legal dispute with AMD resolved, Douglas Melamed, the company’s new general counsel, will have one less thing to worry about when he starts work–not that he lacks the experience to deal with it.
images

EU Objects to Oracle-Sun Deal

in News on November 9, 2009 at 2:43 pm PT

The European Commission today issued a so-called Statement of Objections over Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Disclosed in a regulatory filing by Sun, the document gives formal voice to the EC’s concerns over the fate of Sun’s open-source MySQL database.