5 posts and columns on business practices

Why The Big Smile, Mr. Ballmer? Has Google Been Slapped With an Antitrust Probe in Europe?

in News on February 24, 2010 at 12:01 am PT

And there it is, Google’s European antitrust review. The European Commission has opened an investigation into Google’s dominance of the search and search advertising markets in Europe at the behest of three complainants: French legal search engine ejustice.fr, U.K. price-comparison venture Foundem, and Ciao!, a product review and price-comparison site.

Feds Launch Antitrust Probe of IBM

in News on October 8, 2009 at 11:00 am PT

Justice Department Looking to Punch IBM's Card?

in News on October 8, 2009 at 4:43 am PT

It has been nearly eight years since the U.S. Department of Justice agreed to dissolve its 1956 consent decree with IBM, lifting restrictions that had prevented the company from becoming a monopoly in the market for punch card tabulating machines. But perhaps those restrictions were better left in place. Because on Thursday, the DOJ opened a new investigation into IBM’s business practices, seeking to determine if the company has abused its monopoly position in the mainframe market.
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Justice Department Looking to Punch IBM’s Card?

in News on October 8, 2009 at 4:43 am PT

It has been nearly eight years since the U.S. Department of Justice agreed to dissolve its 1956 consent decree with IBM, lifting restrictions that had prevented the company from becoming a monopoly in the market for punch card tabulating machines. But perhaps those restrictions were better left in place. Because on Thursday, the DOJ opened a new investigation into IBM’s business practices, seeking to determine if the company has abused its monopoly position in the mainframe market.
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Good Effort, Moral Pygmies…

in News on October 28, 2008 at 8:09 am PT

Yahoo’s public shaming before the House Foreign Affairs Committee last November apparently had quite an effect on Internet companies cooperating with Chinese government censorship and demands for information on dissidents. Less than a year after that brutal Capitol Hill humiliation, during which Committee Chairman Tom Lantos (D., Calif.) lambasted Yahoo’s leadership as moral “pygmies,” Yahoo, along with Microsoft and Google, is introducing a code of conduct that will govern their business practices in repressive countries.