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Intel's fine is the largest ever by the Commission, dwarfing the previous record of $675 million (at current exchange rate) on Microsoft in 2004. However, the Microsoft fines grew to $1.16 billion last year because the software giant failed to comply with the original 2004 ruling. (See pictures of...
The lesson for Intel should be to avoid tangling with the Commission, says Michael Tscherny, a partner at the GPlus Europe consultancy in Brussels and a former Commission competition spokesman. "Like Microsoft, Intel went for a confrontational approach, and it lost," he says. "I understand Intel's court appeal, but...
The logic seems pretty simple: if you eliminate gym class, school kids will get fatter. In 2006, a blue-ribbon commission released a worried report about the precipitous decline of physical education in schools since the early '90s, coinciding with a ballooning rate of obesity in kids. Both Democrats and...
Chocolate shop L.A. Burdick’s is petitioning to increase its store capacity after a series of recent clashes with neighboring clothing store Settebello over noise complaints. According to Burdick’s assistant manager Jaime Napier, the manager of Settebello came into the café twice last week...
Furthermore, there is no reason to expect that NATO will come to Georgia’s aid with any more enthusiasm than it did in August. NATO condemned Russia’s recognition of the breakaway regions and last September formed a basis for cooperation with the NATO-Georgia Commission...