The Chinese Ministry of Commerce rejected the deal in a high-profile test of its then-new anti-monopoly law.

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The European Union wants negotiations about rules on how foreign investors can be treated, about anti-monopoly policy and about the relationship between trade and the environment.

BBC: Key trade talks in the balance

The company faced anti-monopoly lawsuits from both individuals and governments.

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He asked his readers to send official complaints to the Federal Anti-Monopoly Agency, and nearly two thousand of them did, crippling the agency, which is obliged by law to respond to each complaint.

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Apple is casting itself as an anti-monopoly crusader.

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One positive development: In 1999, government passed a new anti-monopoly law, which provides for a business supervisory commission to help ensure a level playing field, a move that theoretically helps the disadvantaged and largely punchless community of small businesses.

CNN: Big Little Problems

The tarnishing of its once-platinum reputation began long before June, when a U.S. judge found Microsoft guilty of violating anti-trust laws by leveraging its operating system monopoly to take over other parts of the software business.

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Schmidt was swimming in the increasingly familiar waters of the Mid-Atlantic States in his role as company spokesman, informing a senate anti-trust subcommittee that Google is not a monopoly, as they suggested, but is in fact fighting for its very life against stalwarts like Facebook, Microsoft, Yelp, Expedia, Amazon, eBay, and Yahoo!

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