Antitrust

  • The U.S. versus Monsanto?

    Big Agriculture better watch its back. Obama's antitrust lawyers just rode into town
    By Andrew Leonard August 26, 2009

  • Goldman and JP Morgan win while America loses

    The giant banks amass too much clout and market heft
    By Robert Reich July 16, 2009

  • A fresh new dawn for trust-busters

    Longtime Microsoft antagonist Gary Reback has a new book out on the politics and economics of anti-trust. His timing couldn't be better.
    By Andrew Leonard May 18, 2009

  • Unchain the antitrust lawyers!

    The Obama administration reverses Bush policy and threatens to target would-be monopolists. History -- remember Microsoft? -- warns us to temper our enthusiasm.
    By Andrew Leonard May 11, 2009

  • Break up Wal-Mart

    Is it time to treat Wal-Mart like Standard Oil?
    By Andrew Leonard June 23, 2006

  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    A great read: The Washington Post takes a long, hard look at Bud Selig, and it isn't a pretty picture.
    June 29, 2004

  • Resistance really was futile

    Microsoft and AOL announce an unholy $750 million alliance. Where does that leave Mozilla, Netscape's open-source rebel child?
    By Andrew Leonard June 2, 2003

  • Habla usted Clear Channel?

    If the FCC allows the two biggest Spanish-language media companies in the U.S. to merge, it'll create a media conglomerate that will dwarf all competitors -- and could help GOP-friendly radio titan Clear Channel deliver Hispanic votes for Bush in '04.
    By Eric Boehlert April 24, 2003

  • The Comcast shakedown

    Flush with its purchase of AT&T Broadband, the biggest cable company on the block intends to make size matter.
    By Chishen Wei April 8, 2003

  • Is there hope for Java?

    A judge has ordered Microsoft to make it easy for Sun's popular programming language to work with Windows. But the remedy may be too little, too late.
    By Farhad Manjoo January 21, 2003

  • Money talks, Microsoft walks

    Bill Gates lets out a big "Whew!" as the court decides that what's good for Microsoft is good for America.
    By Scott Rosenberg November 2, 2002

  • Settlement talk

    What Bill Gates and advocates for each side have to say about the court's decision to approve the Microsoft antitrust deal.
    By Farhad Manjoo November 2, 2002

  • Goliath crushes David

    Even as it was fighting its antitrust battle with the feds, Microsoft was already on to Round 2: Winning the streaming-media wars. Second of two parts.
    By Farhad Manjoo October 30, 2002

  • Microsoft's mythical man-years

    The company boasts that it's making Herculean security efforts -- but throwing more people at software problems rarely solves them.
    By Scott Rosenberg April 12, 2002

  • Anti-Trustworthy computing

    Microsoft's new security drive aims to appease Hollywood, comfort consumers and reinvigorate the PC. But will the price for such safety be too high?
    By Paul Boutin April 9, 2002

  • Microsoft should be punished

    The feds failed to order a breakup when it could have done some good. Now, based on the government's findings, Sun, Netscape and Be are suing -- with good reason.
    By J.J. Gifford March 15, 2002

  • Netscape's folly

    The loser in the browser wars has filed a private antitrust suit against Microsoft. But the company doesn't deserve to win.
    By Megan McArdle March 14, 2002

  • Ten years as a willing Microsoftie

    A programmer's account of life at the evil empire is surprisingly un-Borg-like.
    By Andrew Leonard February 8, 2002

  • Chips ahoy

    AMD competes with Intel, and the public wins. The right Microsoft antitrust settlement can bring the same energy back to the software market.
    By Scott Rosenberg January 16, 2002

  • The Microsoft resistance

    Redmond may have triumphed legally and financially -- but there are still little ways to strike blows against the empire.
    By Scott Rosenberg November 29, 2001

  • Is Bill Gates' nightmare over?

    The Microsoft antitrust case appears to be ending -- not with a bang, but with a Bush administration-brokered whimper. Our experts weigh in.
    By Damien Cave, Katharine Mieszkowski and Andrew Leonard November 2, 2001

  • Getting away with it

    The Justice Department's settlement mocks antitrust law and leaves Microsoft free to ravage new markets at will.
    By Scott Rosenberg November 2, 2001

  • The devil is in Windows' details

    It's the little things, like "registered file types," that allow Microsoft to maintain its monopoly. Will the court tackle them?
    By Scott Rosenberg October 8, 2001

  • Slap on the wrist?

    Is the Justice Department's decision not to pursue a breakup of Microsoft a big wet kiss from Bush, or just smart strategy? The experts weigh in.
    By Andrew Leonard and the Salon Technology staff September 6, 2001

  • Bill Gates: Hero or fool?

    A Wall Street Journal reporter says in a new book that even though Gates screwed up Microsoft's future he still might "shoot the moon."
    By Andrew Leonard August 30, 2001
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