EU probes Microsoft-Time Warner deal
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The European Commission on Wednesday opened an in-depth investigation into plans for joint takeover of ContentGuard, a US anti-piracy tech firm, by Microsoftand Time Warner.
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The European Commission opened a new  antitrust probe against Microsoft  on Monday into  whether it unfairly tied its Web browser to the Windows  operating system and made it harder for rival software to work  with Windows.
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The European Commission said it has opened an in-depth investigation into the proposed acquisition by French defense group Thales of Alcatel's holdings in satellite companies Alcatel Alenia Space (AAS) and Telespazio.
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Software giant Microsoft Corp. and the media and entertainment powerhouse Time Warner Inc. ran into fresh trouble with the European Union on Wednesday as antitrust regulators ordered an in-depth probe of their deal to collaborate in making anti-piracy software.
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Airbus questions EU's ruling against Microsoft, which could affect other industries.
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The EC has set up an in-depth investigation into Microsoft and Time Warner&#39;s plans to take over US digital rights management company ContentGuard Holdings.
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The EU launches a probe into Universal Music's proposed $2.1bn takeover of music publishing rival BMG.
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European and U.S. regulators said Tuesday they have been investigating a possible cartel involving makers of liquid crystal display monitors.
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The European Commission has opened two new antitrust investigations of Microsoft&#39;s activities.The first case is in response to a complaint from the European Committee for Interoperable Systems, a Brussels-based trade group of which Opera Software is a member, and concerns the interoperability of Windows with other software, the Commission said Monday.The second investigation is looking into Microsoft&#39;s tactic of bundling software products with its Windows operating system. This follows a complaint to the Commission by Opera, a Norwegian browser developer.Both issues featured in the Commission&#39;s landmark March 2004 antitrust decision against Microsoft, which the company unsuccessfully challenged in court.(More to come.)
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PARIS - IT industry watchers and legal observers were skeptical Wednesday of the significance of a ruling by a European court that MicrosoftÂ must comply with antitrust remedies imposed by the European Commission. Analysts doubted the power of the remedies to achieve their stated goal of boosting competition in two key software markets: workgroup servers and media players.
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The European Commission (EC) opened an in-depth investigation on Wednesday into plans by Microsoft Corp. and Time Warner Inc. to take over U.S. digital rights management (DRM) company ContentGuard Holdings Inc.
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BRUSSELS  - Risking another transatlantic tussle over Microsoft Corp., European Union antitrust regulators said Wednesday they were investigating whether the software giant's deal with media conglomerate Time Warner Inc. to develop anti-piracy software might lead to a new monopoly.
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European Union investigators will probe allegations that Microsoft withheld information from rivals that would allow them to make compatible software.
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European antitrust regulators extend their review of Microsoft-Time Warner deal. Also: Gateway plans to sell desktops at CompUSA & hellip;. Vodafone's Japanese unit headhunts an executive from rival NTT DoCoMo & hellip;. and more.
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The European Union and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) are locked in talks as a deadline nears this week for the software giant to comply with an EU anti-trust ruling, officials said Monday.
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LUXEMBOURG -- Microsoft Corp., which was ruled an illegal monopolist by the European Union in March, will learn next month whether it can wait years before complying with an EU order to sell a stripped-down version of Windows and disclose information on
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The European Commission has formally notified Microsoft Corp and Time Warner Inc of its objections to the companies&#39; proposed joint ownership of ContentGuard Inc.