Antitrust experts weren't surprised by Monday's news that with an initial review of conduct by large U.S. telecom companies, the Justice Department had started dusting off Section 2.
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That's because antitrust enforcers don't know anything about economics.
While antitrust lawyers say the missing documents probably won't give AMD a decisive legal edge, shifts in antitrust law could make Intel vulnerable.
That's the increasingly contorted position Gates and Co. have had to take in order to keep their antitrust defense consistent and roll ou t their new (let's just say it) browser.
As for those pesky antitrust concerns--don't worry about it.
Nomura analyst Paul Cliff suggests Anglo American and Xstrata won't have the same kind of antitrust obstacles as Rio-BHP, since Xstrata could sell its 25% in Lonmin (the world's third largest platinum producer) to appease regulators about the combination's creation of a platinum giant.
Citing previous case law, Intel asserted that even acts of "pure malice by one business competitor against another" don't by themselves constitute a breach of antitrust law.
And this ruling doesn't even end Microsoft's battle with private antitrust litigation.
Given all the controversy surrounding the company's new privacy policy, don't be surprised if this contributes to Almunia formalizing the antitrust charges against Google.
But discounts aren't always beneficial to buyers, says Einer Elhauge, an antitrust expert at Harvard Law School.
Apple last year settled an antitrust case with the European Commission over e-book pricing but didn't admit any wrongdoing.
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With the US Department of Justice already investigating antitrust concerns relating to the case, the other big dogs just couldn't restrain themselves from coming together for a united whinge.
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Owner Marise Cipriani says she can't afford to run her lifts this year and has asked the Justice Department for an antitrust probe.
Google owns tremendous share, but it doesn't abuse its power coercively, as Microsoft was found to have done during its 1990s antitrust imbroglio.
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American AAdvantage and British Airways members can't earn miles on each other's flights between Europe and the Americas (due to antitrust issues).
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Kroes and her team, for instance, probably won't recall Barnett's comments with reverence and careful consideration when they are looking over pending antitrust cases like that of Intel, Rambus and Qualcomm.
Joe Sims, an antitrust partner at Jones Day and former member of the firm's partnership committee, said clients don't mind paying for associates, as long as they feel they are getting their money's worth.
The fact that Jackson didn't rule down the line in favor of the U.S. government on every point in the antitrust case suggests he might be trying to nudge federal and state prosecutors "to sit down and be realistic" when it comes to arriving at remedies, Hauberg said.
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