Microsoft will file a complaint with the European Commission alleging anticompetitive behavior in Europe’s search market. The complaint revolves primarily around Google’s metadata access to rival search providers. The EU has been investigating Google’s search practices in Europe. A Mi... Read more...
Seattle Times Earlier in December, co-founder of Microsoft Paul Allen decided that it would be a good idea to sue Apple, Google, Facebook, eBay, AOL, Netflix, Yahoo, Google’s YouTube, OfficeMax, Office Depot and Staples for violation of one of his patents. The patent in question relates to s... Read more...
With the fate of the $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile by AT&T in Washington's hands, all the big tech players are moving their pawns. And now the Computer & Communications Industry Association, a trade group that includes Google, Microsoft, eBay, Yahoo and Facebook, has come out aga... Read more...
Negotiations between Google and the DoJ over its $700 million acquisition of travel software maker ITA are almost resolved, several sources tell AllThingsD. These sources stress, however, that no deal has been inked and negotiations could still break down. Antitrust authorities obviously have Goo... Read more...
The Justice Department is investigating whether a group representing some top technology firms is unfairly trying to smother a free rival technology for delivering online video that is backed by Google Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. Much the way firms battled in the 198... Read more...
But Google remains dominant with nine tenths of global search traffic Microsoft's Bing has overtaken Yahoo as the second most popular search engine on the web, according to new figures from research firm StatCounter. Bing handled 4.37 per cent of the world's search queries last month... Read more...
An intriguing report on German news site Heise.de on Monday unveiled a cheap monitor that includes built-in PC functionality. The Acer DX241H is an otherwise standard 1920x1080 pixel HDMI monitor, but it also features an operating system running on top of an ARM Cortex-A8 chip--the same processo... Read more...
News Corp has hired tech and media investment bank Allen & Company to sell off MySpace, the WSJ reports. Allen & Co will now schedule meetings with interested buyers, of whom there are about twenty, including financial firms. We think Zynga should buy MySpace (see below) but... Read more...