Today, Hitachi has been found guilty of price-fixing, through its own admission, in the current round of a court battle involving three other companies that produce TFT-LCD screens. The others are LG, Sharp, and lesser known Chunghwa. from BetaNews Hitachi would pay the least of the four companies t...

Microsoft escaped with a rap on the knuckles from their anti-trust woes with the United States Justice Department. They are not faring nearly so well with European authorities. Microsoft recently lost a long and hard-fought battle with European antitrust authorities over their mandatory inclusion of...

The heralded pop-punk outfit Jimmy Eat World is currently reexploring 1999. And so, it turns out, is Microsoft, which is currently embroiled in yet another skirmish over its Internet browser, Internet Explorer. The case, which was initiated by the EU last month — yes — accuses Microsoft ...

Business is war, and payback is hell, but corporate trustbusting is more of a sport. Like basketball players insisting the ball bounced off the other guy’s foot, Microsoft and Google are at it again. This time Google returns the antitrust volley by announcing its intention to apply to become a...

Image via CrunchBase Techflash and Bloomberg are reporting that Christine Varney who has been nominated to be the next US Antitrust Chief is looking at Google, saying “Microsoft is so last century�. Troubling and interesting given how much time Microsoft has been locked up globally in antitrust ...

Over at Ars , Ryan Paul has an appropriately sharp-tongued response to the Mozilla Foundation's troubling move to become a cheerleader for the European Commission's ongoing antitrust efforts against Microsoft. Apparently Mozilla will assist the EC's investigation "by offering expertise about the bro...

Over at Ars , Ryan Paul has an appropriately sharp-tongued response to the Mozilla Foundation’s troubling move to become a cheerleader for the European Commission’s ongoing antitrust efforts against Microsoft. Apparently Mozilla will assist the EC’s investigation “by offering...

Jerry Yang’s departure as Yahoo! CEO opens the door to a renewed bid by Microsoft to buy Yahoo!’s search business (or Yahoo! itself).  Such a merger could produce a significantly stronger challenger to Google in the search market.  With this possibility in mind, the WSJ just ran a fas...

Mickey Kaus asks. 1) How is the government going to "get its money back" if the money has been spent and the firms are bankrupt? Only by liquidation, it would seem. So does the bailout deal eliminate the option of restructuring (as an ongoing enterprise) under the aegis of the bankruptcy court? Eith...

D. Daniel Sokol [*] [download pdf] One of the key issues in international antitrust has been how to make antitrust effective around the world.  Most antitrust laws have been adopted or significantly modified since 1990. [1]   A number of key jurisdictions are either fairly new to antitrust...