FTC OKs aQuantive buyout by Microsoft
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Microsoft Corp.'s $6 billion acquisition of online advertising group aQuantive Inc. has cleared an antitrust regulatory hurdle, the companies said Friday.
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Microsoft announced on Thursday its first software licensing deal under a program mandated by a 2004 European Commission anti-trust ruling.
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Microsoft announced settlements Monday with rival Novell Inc. for $536 million and with a Washington-based trade organization that had aggressively backed the European Union's landmark antitrust case against Microsoft.
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SBC Communications SBC.N on  Wednesday said it reached a 10-year, $400 million deal with  Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O to provide next-generation television  services.
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SBC said it signed a 10-year, $400 million agreement with Microsoft to provide next-generation television services using Microsoft&#39;s TV internet protocol television edition software platform.
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Clearing more legal challenges, Microsoft  announced settlements Monday with rival Novell  for &#36;536 million and with a trade organization that had aggressively backed landmark antitrust cases against Microsoft by the U.S. government and European Union.
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Microsoft Corp on Monday announced antitrust settlements with Novell Inc. and the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), ending years of legal wrangling.
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Microsoft has reached a $536 million legal settlement with Novell, resolving all outstanding antitrust claims by Novell against Microsoft involving NetWare and its other products.
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Novell Inc. NOVL.O on Monday said it  had reached a settlement with software maker Microsoft Corp.  MSFT.O over antitrust issues in which Microsoft will pay it  $536 million in cash, sending Novell shares 11 percent higher  in pre-market trading.
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Microsoft has made substantial concessions to the European Commission, bringing it into compliance with a 2004 antitrust ruling.
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SBC Communications SBC.N will pay  Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O at least $400 million over 10 years  for technology to help SBC sell video services over its  upgraded broadband lines, the companies said Wednesday.
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U.S. antitrust authorities said on  Tuesday they had approved plans by Blackstone Group LP   to buy Alliance Data Systems Corp.  for $6.76 billion.
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Microsoft Corp  ended three  years of resistance on Monday and finally agreed to comply with  a landmark 2004 antitrust decision by the European Commission.
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PEC Solutions Inc. said yesterday it had acquired AC Technologies Inc. for $46.7 million in cash plus $3 million in employee bonuses and payouts. Both companies are government contractors based in Fairfax.
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Microsoft Corp. said Sunday it has added 20 new advertising clients since the acquisition of online ad company aQuantive closed six weeks ago.
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Microsoft has agreed to pay Novell $536 million, in return for Novell withdrawing from the European Union&#39;s antitrust case against the maker of the Windows family of operating systems.
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Communications regulators said on  Thursday they had approved the buyout of radio operator Clear  Channel Communications Inc by two private equity firms.