● NEWS ● #Techdirt #Antitrust ☞ Big Tech 'Antitrust Reform' Agenda Sags, Revealing Mostly Empty Rhetoric https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20220110/07440648261/big-tech-antitrust-reform-agenda-sags-revealing-mostly-empty-rhetoric.shtml don't say "Big Tech", @mmasnick -- that's a #microsoft term: http://techrights.org/2021/06/29/microsoft-behind-big-tech-narrative/
#antitrust
● NEWS ● #CommonDreams #Antitrust ☞ Antitrust Suit Alleges 16 Elite Universities Colluded to Limit Financial Aid https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/10/antitrust-suit-alleges-16-elite-universities-colluded-limit-financial-aid
● NEWS ● #CNBC #Monopolies ☞ Sen. Warren and Rep. #Jayapal tell #Gulag to stop trying to 'bully' DOJ #antitrust chief into recusal https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/05/warren-jayapal-tell-google-to-stop-seeking-doj-antitrust-chief-recusal.html
● NEWS ● #CommonDreams #Jayapal ☞ Warren, Jayapal Demand #Gulag Stop Trying to 'Bully' DOJ #Antitrust Official https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/01/05/warren-jayapal-demand-google-stop-trying-bully-doj-antitrust-official
Lawsuit filed alleging Google is paying Apple to stay out of the search business
The complaint charges that Google and Apple agreed that Apple would not compete in the internet search business against Google. The complaint claims that the means used to effectuate the non-compete agreement included; (1) Google would share it's search profits with Apple; (2) Apple would give preferential treatment to Google for all Apple devices; (3) regular secret meetings between the executives of both companies; (4) annual multi-billion-dollar payments by Google to Apple not to compete in the search business; (5) suppression of the competition of smaller competitors and foreclosing competitors from the search market; (6) acquiring actual and potential competitors.
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29806076
#Google #Apple #Monopoly #Antitrust #Competition #Search #WebBrowsers #WebSearch #Lawsuits
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"U.S. #antitrust enforcers carried out dramatic efforts to combat anticompetitive conduct last year, and all signs show that the aggressive efforts will continue in 2022." https://www.law360.com/retail/articles/1449975/the-antitrust-conduct-cases-to-watch-in-2022
#Antitrust #Law and the Right to Settle: The Case of Pay-for-Delay Settlements ⚓ https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3984228 ䷉ #papers | more in http://schestowitz.com/2022/01/03/#latest
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Totally worthless #antitrust authorities and regulators in the pockets of #microsoft https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_7067 #bribery (or #lobbying as they call it) ruins our public institutions, which abandoned public interest
Florian Müller: Opening brief due this month in Epic's appeal of Apple's #antitrust win: not an insane long shot, but definitely an uphill battle after all that went wrong ⚓ http://www.fosspatents.com/2022/01/opening-brief-due-this-month-in-epics.html ䷉ #fosspatents #Monopolies
Florian Müller: Alternative app store with improved security filed #antitrust lawsuit against #Apple in Florida, simultaneously alleging infringement of #patent on reverse lookup of phone numbers ⚓ http://www.fosspatents.com/2021/12/alternative-app-store-with-improved.html ䷉ #fosspatents #swpats
"Plaintiffs bring this class action under the laws of Iowa for damages sustained as a result of Microsoft’s anti-competitive and monopolistic practices in the conduct of trade or commerce" #microsoft #crime #antitrust #facts http://techrights.org/wiki/Petition_text_-_overview
https://www.howtogeek.com/774542/windows-11-officially-shuts-down-firefoxs-default-browser-workaround/
#microsoft #antitrust
old habits die hard,it seems...
● NEWS ● #Reuters #Monopolies ☞ EXCLUSIVE #Apple seeks dismissal of #India apps market #antitrust case https://www.reuters.com/world/india/exclusive-apple-seeks-dismissal-india-apps-market-antitrust-case-cites-tiny-2021-12-19/
Missing the point that many of these #patents ought not exist in the first place and a lot of them -- probably the vast majority -- are also abstract and therefore bunk https://patentlyo.com/patent/2021/12/statement-negotiations-commitments.html #patent #monopoly #antitrust
● NEWS ● #EFF #Copyright #Copyrights ☞ Newspapers vs Big Tech: #Antitrust Tackles the Problems That Copyright Just Can’t Fix https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/newspapers-vs-big-tech-antitrust-tackles-problems-copyright-just-cant-fix
"Microsoft’s $19.7B Nuance buy hits a snag with #EU #antitrust probe" but where was #europe and its regulatory authorities when #microsoft bought #github ? Listening to Judas (selling us to MicrosofT) Zemlin? http://techrights.org/2019/07/31/jim-zemlin-open-source-loves-microsoft/
● NEWS ● #CommonDreams #Monopolies ☞ Dems Urge DOJ #Antitrust Probe Into $43 Billion Discovery- #WarnerMedia Merger https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/12/06/dems-urge-doj-antitrust-probe-43-billion-discovery-warnermedia-merger
● NEWS ● #CounterPunch #patents ☞ In Fighting #COVID19 , #patent #monopolies , Not #Antitrust , is the Real Problem https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/02/in-fighting-covid-19-intellectual-property-not-antitrust-is-the-real-problem/ patent cartels are, in some sense, also an antitrust issue
Microsoft targeted in antitrust complaint to EU over OneDrive – POLITICO
https://www.politico.eu/article/microsoft-targeted-in-eu-antitrust-complaint-over-onedrive/
#microsoft
#onedrive
#nextcloud
#antitrust
#concurrence
#europe
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● NEWS ● #TheVerge #Monopolies #antitrust ☞ #Google seeks recusal probe for incoming antitrust chief over Yelp and #Microsoft cases https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/19/22792308/google-seeks-block-doj-antitrust-chief-jonathan-kanter-yelp-microsoft-cases