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...almost harmonic convergence: a Di-Ploitation Watch item that's also a Feud of the Week! Last Monday Princess Diana's estate and memorial fund filed suit against the Franklin Mint, which began selling porcelain dolls, plates, pennants and rings within days of Di's death. The suit claims that the Mint was denied permission to produce these keepsakes and that despite claims of giving all the proceeds to the Diana, Princess of Wales' Charities, it has "never donated a penny to the fund." On Friday the Mint retorted in a press release, saying, "This lawsuit must be a mistake...
...glory ever since. The stock has doubled three times in the past four years. Microsoft is now in the midst of a 14% pullback that began a month ago. History suggests this is a buying opportunity. "The value of the enterprise more than offsets the risk of the antitrust suit," says Jonathan Cohen, tech analyst at Merrill Lynch. He hasn't budged from his buy rating. Neither has Art Russell, tech analyst at Edward Jones, who says that "this stock is filet mignon--expensive, but a helluva steak...
...antitrust suit against Microsoft shows anything, it's that nobody has a monopoly on analogies. Both sides in the complicated legal case filed last week have latched on to similes and metaphors to make their positions clear. But do they work? Maybe up to a point...
WASHINGTON: The Federal Trade Commission could file suit as early as this week against chip makers Intel, the Netly News reports. FTC chairman Robert Pitofsky charges that the silicon superpower is withholding vital technical information from its suppliers and competitors. "Our premise is that competition will feed innovation more than monopoly," Pitofsky says...
...Kevin Arquit, former head of the FTC's bureau of competition, sees two ways in which an Intel suit could proceed. If the FTC focuses on withholding information from a competitor, as Intel did with Intergraph Corporation, that would be a less serious charge. A far broader argument would be accusing Andy Grove's gang of withholding vital technical data from computer makers unless they agreed not to incorporate any other products...