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Microsoft's highly repetitive and relentlessly on-message weather report was its way of saying it was delighted, delighted, delighted with last week's appeals-court ruling partly reversing the antitrust verdict against it. The decision clearly sent a burst of sunshine Microsoft's way. Gates & Co. won on the most critical issue: the court unanimously reversed the trial court's order splitting Microsoft in two. And it upbraided Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, a Microsoft nemesis, for his comments to the media and booted him off the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Split But Microsoft's A Monopolist | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...engaged in illegal anticompetitive acts. The court sent the case back to the trial court for new hearings that could result in substantial remedies against Microsoft--even, although it's now unlikely, another breakup order. Perhaps most troubling: the ruling could pave the way for a flood of private antitrust lawsuits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Split But Microsoft's A Monopolist | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...President Bush also expressed concern. His own antitrust regulators at the Justice Department let the G.E.-Honeywell marriage - a very neatly matched one-stop-shopping combination of jetliner engines and jetliner avionics that scared G.E.'s European competitors - slide through with only minor alterations. Then head euro-trustbuster Mario Monti and his commission had to go and mess it all up for reasons that struck American backers of American business interests (like Rockefeller and Bush) as a little too, well, nationalistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Merger Is Sunk Off European Shores | 7/3/2001 | See Source »

...What all that means for the U.S., from Washington to Wall Street, is that in globalized antitrust regulation the higher bar is the only bar. A merger of Connecticut-based GE and New Jersey-based Honeywell qualified for Euro-scrutiny because the combined revenues of the two companies exceed the EU's circuit-breakers of $4.3 billion in global sales and $215 million in EU sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Merger Is Sunk Off European Shores | 7/3/2001 | See Source »

...Honeywell qualified by a country mile, and so will a lot of other U.S. mergers. E.U. and U.S. antitrust officials work closely together, and for most of the '90s, if American companies could get a deal past their own government, they could get it past the EU. (The last big merger spiked by the EU, WorldCom-Sprint, was denied by the U.S. a day later.) Now, Bush's hands may be off the gates, but Monti's are still on. Which suddenly makes Europe a very imposing gatekeeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Merger Is Sunk Off European Shores | 7/3/2001 | See Source »

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