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...against the Houthis isn't the grand regional proxy war that Yemen and Saudi Arabia are alleging, regional analysts say it could very well become one if the key players keep crying wolf. "One of the things that the Yemeni government has gotten particularly skilled at doing over the past several years is linking their own domestic crises to larger regional and western concerns," says Johnson, noting that at other times Yemen has attempted to link the Houthis and al-Qaeda, a militant Sunni group that has openly targeted Shi'ites in other contexts, such as Iraq. "I think...
...Beard" may be gone, but he could simply be replaced by one of his even more bloodthirsty lieutenants. There is also concern that the killing may just strengthen the other five cartels vying for power in Mexico. "If this was a conventional war, then this killing of a key general would be a clear victory," says historian and pundit Jose Antonio Crespo. "But in the drug war, this slaying is likely to just cause a power vacuum that will lead to more bloodshed." (See pictures of Mexico's drug...
...settlement may also establish antitrust regulation as a key driver of innovation and competition in the IT sector. When Microsoft first began trading blows with the European Commission, it took a confrontational approach, as if it never believed it would be tamed by Brussels bureaucrats. But the tussles have cost Microsoft dearly: the E.U. watchdog has fined the company $2.4 billion for illegal business practices over the years. At the same time, the rise of companies like Apple and Google - which both enjoy quasi-monopolies in other technology sectors - creates a new challenge for Microsoft. Indeed, as Microsoft, Apple...
...comes as little surprise that Microsoft is one of the key complainants in the European Commission's current investigation into software giant Oracle's $7.4 billion planned takeover of hardware-maker Sun. Microsoft is also seeking to halt a Google takeover of mobile-advertising start-up company AdMob. (See pictures of work and life at Google...
...bank balance, then, stifling the strike was key. In applying for the High Court injunction, the carrier argued that the union's ballot wrongly included hundreds of BA staff who had already agreed to take voluntary redundancy before any industrial action would have started. Unite insisted that it had tried to find out which of BA's 13,000 cabin crew were planning to quit but that the airline offered little help. Discounting them would have done little to change the result, though: 92% of voters were in favor of a strike. (See the top 10 worst business deals...