The Wall Street Journal reports that in its first review of EU economic policy, the OECD said “[t]he European Union must reduce barriers to the across-border provision of services, make its energy markets more competitive, and aid the integration of retail banking if it is to close the income gap [...]
COMMISSION SAYS TECH INDUSTRY NEEDS TO BEWARE Then Says “Maybe Not.” Question From Industry is, “Which is it?” STATEMENT BY JONATHAN ZUCK, PRESIDENT OF ACT Today the Court of First Instance confirmed two decisions by the European Commission on the antitrust case against Microsoft. The first decision orders the availability [...]
Tomorrow morning at 930am CET, it will all be over. Months of waiting. Months of speculating. Months of worrying. Tomorrow Europe's Court of First Instance will put a rest to it all in what many expect to be five minutes in Luxembourg followed by a mad dash to read through [...]
SME Concerns about the Commission’s Case against Microsoft Many Are Worried About What the CFI Decision Means for Them The European Commission’s case against Microsoft is often described as an attempt to protect the David’s of the software world from Microsoft’s Goliath. The reality, however, is not so clear cut. [...]
10 Years After U.S. v. Microsoft New Technologies, New Competitors, and a New Microsoft Abstract It’s been 10 years since the U.S. Justice Department launched its antitrust investigation of Microsoft. In the past decade the world of personal computing changed in so many ways that today’s dizzying array of choices—handheld [...]