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Anticompetitive Behavior

Agency protects consumers

By Alicia G. Limtiaco • October 6, 2008 As a consumer or businessperson, you may be more familiar with the Federal Trade Commission than you think. And although miles of ocean and land separates Guam from the U.S. mainland, the...

Making the connection

In their role as customer protector, utility industry regulators look to identify opportunities to introduce viable competition. Despite having introduced a new licence condition last October, Ofgem still has concerns about...

Opinion, Steve Hewlett: Ofcom presses the pause button in pay-TV battle

Ofcom's review of the pay-TV market - latest instalment published last week - was prompted by an original complaint that posed some very big questions indeed. The complainants (Top-up TV, Setanta, Virgin Media and BT), asserted...

Yahoo, Google Try to Curry Favor for Ad Deal

Things are finally getting serious in the industry-wide debate over the Yahoo-Google deal. The companies have until the end of next week to walk away before the contract takes hold and Yahoo begins importing a certain amount of...

UPDATE 1-Irish c.bank chief defends bank guarantee plan

DUBLIN, Oct 3 (Reuters) - The plan, which guarantees the deposits and debts of six Irish-owned banks for the next two years, has angered many in neighbouring Britain who say the move is anti-competitive, and raised questions in...

Google-Yahoo Put Partnership On Hold; Talks With DOJ 'Continuing'

In order to give the Department of Justice more time to determine whether or not Google's (NSDQ: GOOG) and Yahoo's (NSDQ: YHOO) ad search pact runs afoul of anti-trust laws and will create any undue anti-competitive pressures...

Sasol Limited (JSE: SOL; NYSE: SSL): Sasol Responds Further to European Commission Fine

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- "We regret that this has occurred in one of Sasol's subsidiaries and that our due diligence and compliance programmes failed to identify this anti-competitive...

Cleaning Up After the Elephants

Watching the Bush administration in its final few months is like watching one of those scenes in a submarine disaster movie, when the aah-oogah horn blows and crew members rush every which way to jury-rig pipelines, crank balky...

How to survive the credit crunch: beware of survival planning with suppliers or rivals

Contacting a supplier to discuss how to cope with difficult market conditions could land businesses in trouble, a competition law expert has warned. Asking a supplier to encourage a rival to stop discounting prices so...

Update on electricity investigation

Thursday, 2 October 2008, 9:58 am Press Release: Commerce Commission Commerce Commission issues update on electricity investigation The Commerce Commission anticipates receiving by the end of the month an initial report as part...

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