Update: EU drops anitrust probe against Apple
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The European Commission ended its&#160;antitrust investigation into Apple&#160;after the company agreed to reduce the price of music downloads from its iTunes Web site in the U.K., the European Union&#39;s antitrust regulator said Wednesday.
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The French Competition Council will not force Apple to license its FairPlay digital-rights management technology to competitors. The Council rejected an argument by Virgin France, which
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The wait continues The European Commission has decided to drag out its investigation of Google's proposed DoubleClick purchase.â¦
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The European Union said Monday it was suspending its World Trade Organisation complaint against India&#39;s import duties on alcoholic drinks.
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The European Commission has stopped  the clock on its review of Microsoft and Time Warner's purchase  of U.S. anti-piracy software maker ContentGuard, a spokesman  for the EU executive said on Tuesday.
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The European Commission has stopped the clock on its review of Microsoft and Time Warner's purchase of U.S. anti-piracy software maker ContentGuard, a spokesman for the EU executive said on Tuesday.
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The pint lives on: The European Commission has ditched its attempt to impose the metric system on Ireland and Britain, where a grocer was once convicted of selling bananas by the pound rather than by the kilo.
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Airbus (EAD.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) has withdrawn a filing which gave support for Microsoft (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) in an antitrust case before the European Union&#39;s Court of First Instance, a source close to the
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A warning posted by Apple on networking issues with the newly-released MacBook Air has been dropped from Apple's Web site.
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TechWeb - A teardown analysis finds that Apple has reduced the cost of materials for the 4GB Nano.
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A Chinese firm drops a lawsuit against two journalists who claimed labour abuses on its iPod assembly line.
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Apple declines to explain why its new DRM-free music files are watermarked with users' names and e-mail addresses.
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A European court on Thursday dismissed a legal action brought by the EU Commission accusing the British government of breaking its worker health and safety rules.
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Coca-Cola is putting an end to a 5-year-old antitrust investigation in the European Union by agreeing to stop business practices that were viewed as unfair.
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The European Union's second-highest court dismissed on Tuesday a case taken by Czech brewer Budejovicky against its U.S. rival Anheuser-Busch  over the use of trademarks such as Budweiser.
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EC anti-trust probe may not see Intel documents
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(InfoWorld) - Apple and four of the biggest record companies have until Wednesday to submit their written response toÂ antitrust charges that they restricted online sales of musicÂ in Europe. The deadline originally expired at the beginning of June, but was extended by two weeks at the request of Apple and three of the record companies, European Commission competition spokesman Jonathan Todd said Monday. The Commission is still waiting for replies from these four companies. The one record company that didn't request an extension has already submitted its written response, Todd said. The Commission has declined to name the record companies involved but they are assumed to be the four majors: Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Warner Music, and EMI Group. "We have every reason to believe that the remaining companies will reply by the new deadline," Todd said. Downloads from Apple's iTunes Web site are priced differently in different countries in the Union but consumers are prevented from shopping around and have to make their purchases of music from the iTunes site in the country they are based. The Commission said that in the single European market the distribution agreements between the record companies and Apple could amount to restrictive practices. Apple claims it has always tried to operate a single pan-European iTunes store accessible by anyone from any member state but has been prevented from doing so by the record labels and publishers.ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!