The tired spat between Google and Microsoft just got a lot more interesting after reports that the search giant tipped off European authorities to antitrust concerns, a tip that will now cost the Windows-maker nearly a billion dollars.
The European Commission has fined Microsoft $731 million for breaking an anti-trust promise, setting a strong precedent for how things can go for Google in its European anti-trust investigation.
European antitrust regulators have pried NOW That's What I Call Music! from Universal Music Group's hands, ensuring they won't reap any more profits from one of the music industry's perennial bestsellers.
The last remaining publisher holdout in the e-book pricing antitrust lawsuit against five publishers and Apple, has decided to settle about ten months after the lawsuit was originally filed. Now Apple is the only remaining party fighting the DOJ lawsuit.
Google is getting off pretty easy: after a two-year investigation into Google's possibly anti-competitive antics, the Federal Trade Commission has ruled that Google hasn't done anything wrong, saying "evidence does not support a claim" that Google unfairly favors its own products in its search results.
Google has always made it all too easy to join its not so beloved social network, but now it's forcing users to log in with Google+ in order to get better (and more lucrative) data for advertisers.
Apple and a handful of publishers got hit with a price-fixing lawsuit on Wednesday, with the Department of Justice finally snipping the string on the sword of Damocles that's been dangling over the e-book industry for months.
The Justice Department's warning to Apple about the company's apparent collusion with publishers on e-book pricing couldn't have been better timed.
Google still doesn't think it did anything wrong, even as the Federal Trade Commission folds its new search features that promote Google+ into its anti-trust investigations of the company.
After changing its search features earlier this week Google got all sorts of Internet complaints, now it's being hit with an actual complaint from the Electronic Privacy Information Center, who has filed a letter to the Federal Trade Commission.
The company with White House ties has been on a GOP hiring tear
The former Google CEO's testimony will impact more than Google's future
AT&T faces an uphill battle, and most reactions are pessimistic
The Justice Department's antitrust chief has a new job
Google's search, shopping and travel businesses are likely to be scrutinized
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