There's nothing illegal about being so big that you dominate a market.
The recent attempt by some of the nation's largest banks to impose new fees on debit card use has caught the attention of the Justice Department.
NEW YORK (AP) -- NBA owners held a conference call Thursday to receive an update on the lockout, a person with knowledge of the details said.
Cool, calm and collected, Mario Monti could not be more different from Italy's flamboyant former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Frustrated by an inability to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement with owners, some NBA players have sought the advice of an antitrust attorney on the possibility of decertifying the National Basketball Players' Association. Such a maneuver would likely be followed by the filing of a class action antitrust lawsuit against the league and it would make the cancellation of the 2011-12 NBA more probable.
Apple's ground breaking technology and its uncanny ability to understand what consumers really want has propelled the firm founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs and his buddy Steve Wozniak to stratospheric heights.
Writer Joe Nocera predicts a drop in Apple's stock price, but says Apple will be fine for the next two to three years.
In a sign that the Google-Motorola deal could face heavy antitrust scrutiny, Google included an unusually high breakup fee in its deal terms, according to a document filed to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday.
Can a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1922 help to explain why Mike Jacobs, who until his release this morning was playing for the Colorado Rockies' Triple-A affiliate, just became the first player in pro baseball, basketball, hockey or football to test positive for Human Growth Hormone (HGH)?
A few days ago, NFL owners approved a proposed 10-year collective bargaining agreement. The ball is now in the players' hands to approve or reject the proposal. Will NFL football soon return? Michael McCann breaks down what to expect this week.
Breaking down Wednesday's ruling by Judge Susan Nelson denying the NFL's request for a stay of her lockout decision ...
U.S. District Judge Susan Nelson's decision Monday to enjoin the NFL's lockout is a major setback for the league, which had had hoped to use the lockout to force players into agreeing on a new collective bargaining agreement that would substantially reduce players' earning capacity. While the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, which will review Judge Nelson's order, may provide renewed life to the lockout, NFL players are now poised to avoid the most onerous concessions.
Breaking down Monday's ruling by Judge Nelson to enjoin the NFL lockout ...
Now that the NFL Players Association has decided to decertify, here's a road map of what might happen next.
The NFL and the Players Association agreed Thursday to extend the expiration of the collective bargaining agreement by 24 hours, until 11:59 p.m. Friday, as they try to hammer out a new agreement. Here are some issues to keep in mind as the situation unfolds.
A lawsuit accusing Apple and AT&T of monopolizing the iPhone can proceed as a class action, a federal judge ruled late last week.
Apple could soon be the target of an antitrust investigation by either the Federal Trade Commission or the Department of Justice, according to numerous press reports, with the feds focusing on its new policy requiring developers to write iPhone OS apps using only Apple-approved programming languages.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens announced Friday he is retiring from the bench. Stevens, 89, is the oldest justice serving on the court.
The Federal Trade Commission is gearing up to possibly challenge the proposed merger between Google and mobile advertising giant AdMob on the grounds that it violates antitrust laws, according to news reports.
Late in January, the book publisher Macmillan told Amazon it wanted to raise the prices of its books sold through the online retailer. Amazon made clear it wanted to continue to set prices for Macmillan's books, as it does for most books it sells.
When baseball slugger Mark McGwire admitted he had used steroids in his record-breaking 1998 season, he recalled refusing to talk about the subject in his 2005 testimony to Congress.
On Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court will hear arguably the most important sports law case in U.S. history and one that could dramatically reshape how the NFL and other leagues conduct their business.
While today's Federal Trade Commission action against semiconductor giant Intel recycles some now familiar charges -- abuses of monopoly power that were the subject of suits previously filed against the company by rival AMD and regulators with the European Commission, Japan, Korea, and the New York State Attorney General's office -- it also advances new factual allegations and enlists some fresh and untested legal theories into the fray.
The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday it is suing Intel Corp., the world's largest chipmaker, for alleged anticompetitive practices.
Antitrust regulators have opened an investigation into claims that IBM abused its dominance of the market for mainframe computers to suppress rivals, an industry group said Thursday.
Microsoft has agreed to hire at least 400 Yahoo employees as part of the companies' new plan to share revenue on Internet search advertising, a regulatory filing showed Wednesday.
Each morning that he unlocks the doors of Cottage Pharmacy, owner Ken Villani fights a losing battle.
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the hiring practices of some major players in the tech industry in the latest sign that the Obama administration is getting serious about its antitrust crackdown promises.
Big tech companies are likely targets for the Justice Department's antitrust crackdown, say experts, which could bode well for some smaller players.
Christine Varney has excellent timing. Just two days after the Obama administration's new head of antitrust enforcement announces that she will be a much tougher cop on the beat than her predecessor, the European Union says it is fining Intel $1.45 billion for using its market power to abuse its competitors.
European regulators slapped Intel Corp. with a record fine of $1.45 billion Wednesday after a nearly eight-year long antitrust case.
For the second week in a row, reports have surfaced that government regulators are closely eyeing Google.
Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. have reportedly submitted a list of concessions that would deflate their proposed Internet advertising partnership to appease antitrust regulators threatening to block the alliance.
Intel says it has received a subpoena from the Federal Trade Commission concerning its practices in the microprocessor market
A new study says race may play a part in choosing on online social networking site. CNN's Veronica De La Cruz reports.
The head of the Federal Trade Commission has refused to open a formal antitrust investigation of U.S. chipmaker Intel, despite requests by lawmakers, other commissioners, as well as probes by antitrust authorities overseas, according to a published report.
A European court dealt Microsoft Corp. a harsh blow Monday as it rejected the company's appeal of a landmark 2004 antitrust ruling, and upheld a $605 million fine against the world's largest software maker.
Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts confirmed on Monday that it received a request for documents from the Department of Justice on whether it engaged in actions that violated antitrust laws.
Just as he is named the world's richest man, the Mexican plutocrat finds his market dominance under new scrutiny
The Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a nearly 100-year-old precedent that some price-setting agreements between manufacturers and retailers are automatically illegal under federal antitrust law.
The U.S. Supreme Court sided on Monday with Wall Street underwriters, and ruled that an antitrust lawsuit against them involving the pricing of initial public stock offerings cannot go forward.
Fortune: Sony's China problemupdated: Thu Feb 22 2007 16:51:00
Western companies will soon get a sneak peek at an unwelcome coming attraction: Chinese antitrust law. They're hoping it's not a horror show. A Shanghai court heard evidence in January in an antitr...
In Canada and in the pharmaceutical industry, a 64-year-old man named Bernard Sherman has been famous - some might say infamous - for years.
Advanced Micro Devices has finally arrived. Long the also-ran of the microprocessor business, a perennial distant second to industry behemoth Intel, AMD is now a contender. In the market for the cr...
The Supreme Court Monday agreed to consider an appeal by the largest U.S. telephone carriers seeking the dismissal of a class-action antitrust suit against them.
British and U.S. regulators are investigating alleged price fixing of passenger fares and fuel surcharges by British Airways and other airlines, according to a statement issued Thursday from British Airways.
CNNMoney: Maybe a reboundupdated: Tue Jun 28 2005 05:34:00
Stocks were set to open higher Tuesday as investors adjusted to record high oil prices and awaited a key consumer confidence report.
FSB: Rough on Rivalsupdated: Fri Apr 01 2005 00:01:00
Clear Channel has long been accused of using its size, success, and political clout to the detriment of small competitors. The company's critics aren't hard to find. Online tirades pop up on websit...
Just days after settling one anti-trust lawsuit with Microsoft, Novell filed another one.
Microsoft Corp. said Friday it will file a court appeal next week against a landmark European Union's ruling that accused the software giant of breaking European competition law.
Macartan Humphreys has a gig teaching game theory at Columbia University, but you're just as likely to find him in a dingy drinking hole in Sierra Leone, or Colombia, or any number of other war-rav...
Federal antitrust regulators filed suit to block Oracle Corp.'s $9.4 billion bid to buy PeopleSoft Inc. Thursday, saying the proposed merger would reduce competition in the software industry.
With all due immodesty," says swaggering New York attorney Lloyd Constantine, "I know this better than anybody in the world."
Jesse Morreale was gearing up for the Van's Warped Tour, a punk-rock concert that appeared in Denver last summer. Morreale's 25-person company, Nobody in Particular Presents (NIPP), had been promot...
Jesse Morreale was gearing up for the Van's Warped Tour, a punk-rock concert that appeared in Denver last summer. Morreale's 25-person company, Nobody In Particular Presents (NIPP), had been promot...
If you wandered through Trafalgar Square on the morning of Sept. 27, past the weathered stone columns of St Martin-in-the-Fields, you might have been surprised to see a group of bearded, black-hatt...
If the Russian aluminum industry had a face, it would look like Lev Chernoy's: corrugated, pockmarked, insulated from the outside world by a metal detector and an army of armed guards. Crippled by ...
What a wild couple of weeks it's been in Microsoft land! First, esteemed jurist Richard Posner, brought in as a mediator in the Microsoft antitrust case, thought he might be close to a settlement. ...
It's rare and more than a bit cheeky for a federal appeals judge to declare a controlling U.S. Supreme Court precedent to be "wobbly," "moth eaten," and "unsound." It's rarer still for the Supreme ...
MONDAY, JUNE 14: Here's the great mystery of the Microsoft trial: How can a company this smart put on a defense this dumb? As Microsoft presented its case last winter--and as government prosecutor ...
TUESDAY, JUNE 1: "It looks like old home week," says Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, cracking a smile as he calls Round Two of the Microsoft antitrust trial to order. Round One, you'll recall, ended...
TUESDAY, FEB. 23: "It's hard to believe sometimes that this is an antitrust trial," David Boies is saying with a laugh. It's morning, and the government's chief prosecutor has just strolled into Ju...
Whenever an important tobacco case goes to trial--and there have been some half-dozen trials in the past six years--a tobacco analyst named Gary Black, from the Wall Street research firm Sanford C....
Say the government wins. Then what? What the heck should we do with Microsoft?
Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company's name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unborn and unknown, that will render your business model obsolete. Bill Gates knows that. When h...
MONDAY, OCT. 19: United States v. Microsoft is less than an hour old and--whoa!--there's Bill Gates. Not in person, of course; it was revealed weeks ago that neither the government nor Microsoft pl...
Here it comes: the real trial of the decade. No, not another O.J.-style circus or a made-for-the-tabloids nanny trial, but rather the high-stakes antitrust lawsuit United States v. Microsoft, which...
At the March Senate hearing into Microsoft's monopolistic tendencies, venture capitalist Stewart Alsop suggested that the company's Windows operating-system business be turned into a regulated mono...
With the Justice Department hammering away at Microsoft and suing to block the proposed merger between Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, the perennial debate about antitrust policy has taken on...
The modern history of American business has been marked by bitter rivalries that end up in messy antitrust suits: MCI Communications v. AT&T, Berkey Photo v. Eastman Kodak, Control Data v. IBM, amo...
How is your company's relationship with Uncle Sam? Not so hot? You're hardly the only one with a complaint -- and the aggregate of such dissatisfaction may form a significant problem for America. T...
The scandal on Wall Street broadened significantly when Boyd L. Jefferies, 56, admitted criminal violations of securities laws. He also settled civil charges by the Securities and Exchange Commissi...
MOST BUSINESS lobbyists cheered the idea of sweeping antitrust reform when President Reagan put forth his proposals on the subject in late February. But few of them were popping champagne corks onc...
A BRAWL IS BREWING in the Senate as beer wholesalers once again roll out a bill making it easier for them to get exclusive distribution rights within their territories. Soft-drink bottlers got just...
NO ONE in the U.S. telephone business has reached out and touched more people --or taken more heat for it--than Harold H. Greene, 62, the federal judge who approved the breakup of AT&T. Newspaper e...
CONGRESS IS about to begin debating how to dispose of the Consolidated Rail Corp., the amalgam of six bankrupt freight lines that the government took over in 1976. Three avid bidders want to buy Co...
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