Antitrust

  • The U.S. versus Monsanto?

    Big Agriculture better watch its back. Obama's antitrust lawyers just rode into town
  • Goldman and JP Morgan win while America loses

    The giant banks amass too much clout and market heft
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Break up Wal-Mart

    Is it time to treat Wal-Mart like Standard Oil?
  • 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.
  • Resistance really was futile

    Microsoft and AOL announce an unholy $750 million alliance. Where does that leave Mozilla, Netscape's open-source rebel child?
  • 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.
  • The Comcast shakedown

    Flush with its purchase of AT&T Broadband, the biggest cable company on the block intends to make size matter.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Settlement talk

    What Bill Gates and advocates for each side have to say about the court's decision to approve the Microsoft antitrust deal.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Ten years as a willing Microsoftie

    A programmer's account of life at the evil empire is surprisingly un-Borg-like.
  • 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.
  • The Microsoft resistance

    Redmond may have triumphed legally and financially -- but there are still little ways to strike blows against the empire.
  • 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.
  • Getting away with it

    The Justice Department's settlement mocks antitrust law and leaves Microsoft free to ravage new markets at will.
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • 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."
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