The European Commission is a loose cannon when it comes to antitrust and competition law. It's record $1.45 billion fine is emblematic of what the Commission just doesn't get: there's a difference, a difference that matters, between consumer and competitor harm. EU Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes said otherwise: Intel [...]
According the BBC, Neelie Kroes joked that her record setting fine against Intel would be redistributed from the American-based company and its employees to European taxpayers.Ms Kroes joked in her own news conference that Intel would now have to change its latest advertising slogan from "sponsors of tomorrow" to "the [...]
On Monday, the US Department of Justice’s lead antitrust enforcer announced a new direction for her agency. In a speech before the Center for American Progress, Christine Varney, assistant attorney general for antitrust, said “as antitrust enforcers we cannot sit on the sidelines any longer.”According to the San Jose Mercury [...]
MSNBC reports that the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) plans to permanently base a computer crime expert in Estonia this year to fight international threats against computer systems. According to FBI assistant director Shawn Henry, this is the first time the bureau is placing outside of the United States an [...]
FoxNews.com had a front-page article this week about a study showing that, despite the president’s dedication to openness and transparency in government and his campaign’s landmark use of the Internet, there is a drop in satisfaction among those who use federal government websites in search of information, and that the [...]