2 posts and columns on legal issues

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.
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Microsoft Announces Windows 7 Neelie Kroes Edition

in News on July 24, 2009 at 11:14 am PT

Despite all its threats and protestations, Microsoft has finally capitulated to the European Commission’s demand that it bundle rival Web browsers along with Internet Explorer in Windows 7. “Microsoft has proposed a consumer ballot screen as a solution to the pending antitrust case,” the Commission said in a press release. Microsoft, for its part, says the move is a “big step forward.”
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