Tag: United States Department of Justice
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Google wins but not really
The DOJ approved Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility awhile ago. Now, China’s Ministry of Commerce has done the same. The only thing they want though is that Android must remain open-source and freely available. So, Google will continue have a very fragmented OS on its hands. Google paid $12.5 billion for Motorola…
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Who didn’t see that coming? AT&T swallows $4 Billion dollar pill, ends bid for T-Mobile.
AT&T has ended its $39 billion bid to acquire T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telecom. There was very strong opposition from the Department of Justice, Sprint and other companies which rightly said that such a merger would have a negative impact on the U.S. wireless market. The DOJ saw through the ads and smoke about the…
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That didn’t take long; The DOJ & FTC looking into Apple’s (greedy) subscription policy
Apple’s new app store subscriptions has a whole lot of controversy around it. Ok that may be being nice. There are many who just hate it with a passion. There have been official statements from Rhapsody saying it would not comply with the new regulations. Sony indirectly said something about it by launching their own service. Unofficially Slaker said some mean…
