TechDirt's Mike Masnick has an interesting post over at Forbes that suggests the Microsoft/Yahoo deal is much ado about nothing:Looking at Yahoo!'s new deal with Microsoft, it looks like it's still fighting that last battle. It's still playing catch-up. It's still looking for search market share, rather than relevance. The [...]
Our friend Andrew Noyes over at Tech Daily Dose is asking the most important DC question about today’s Microsoft/Yahoo search agreement: “Will the MicroHoo Raise Eyebrows on the Hill?” Not to mention the DOJ/FTC/European regulators/State AGs… As Andrew notes: “More than eight months after abandoning its planned advertising partnership with [...]
In May, we submitted our official response to the European Commission’s Statement of Objections regarding Microsoft’s integration of Internet Explorer into the Windows operating system. Our submission focused on the collateral damage that would be inflicted on software developers if Internet Explorer's underlying technology was torn out of Windows. In [...]
The Economist has a great article on why innovative European companies, particularly small and medium-sized ones, need a single patent office and a unified court system for defending their inventions. The article even quotes a couple of ACT's European members.According to a recent paper, “Lost property: The European patent system [...]
“Neelie Kroes violated our human rights!” That is the curious claim being made by Intel in its appeal of the European Commission’s ruling that the company had violated European antitrust laws and the concomitant record breaking 1.06 billion euro fine, according to the Wall Street Journal Europe’s Charles Forelle. While [...]