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Vanessa Mock, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on April 19 at 9:47 am PT
European competition regulators gave the green light Thursday to a plan by an investor group led by Sony Corp. to buy EMI Group Ltd.’s huge music-publishing division for $2.2 billion.
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Ethan Smith, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on April 18 at 4:00 pm PT
European antitrust regulators are expected Thursday to approve a plan by a Sony Corp.-led investor group to buy EMI Group Ltd.’s huge music-publishing division for $2.2 billion, according to people familiar with the situation.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on March 24 at 11:15 am PT
What is
AllThingsD’s Arik Hesseldahl doing in Brussels, anyway? Talking tech, naturally.
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Julia Angwin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 16 at 3:30 am PT
Regulators in the U.S. and European Union are investigating Google Inc. for bypassing the privacy settings of millions of users of Apple Inc.’s Safari Web browser, according to people familiar with the investigations. Google stopped the practice last month after being contacted by The Wall Street Journal.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 15 at 9:30 am PT
The networking giant wants European regulators to reconsider the deal and require Microsoft to make Skype compatible with other video calling services.
News Byte
John Murrell in Mobile on February 13 at 2:28 pm PT
Just hours after
European Union antitrust regulators gave the okay to Google’s $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility, their counterparts at the U.S. Department of Justice
did the same. The DOJ echoed the EU concern over how Google will handle standards essential patents and said it would be watching, but it concluded overall that “the specific transactions at issue are not likely to significantly change existing market dynamics.” Also approved was
the sale of a batch of Nortel patents to a consortium composed of Apple, Microsoft and RIM.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 13 at 10:49 am PT
European antitrust regulators approve the deal, but say that they remain concerned with what Google might do with Motorola’s patents.
John Paczkowski in News on February 10 at 11:40 am PT
Tech companies plotting to use standards essential patents to bolster their market power best think twice before doing so.
Ina Fried in Mobile on December 12, 2011 at 10:05 am PT
You’d think European Union officials might have other things to worry about, but …
