[Sheflug] Yahoo

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello there

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article4124377.ece

Looks like the Yahoo merger has gone through with Google and not 
Microsoft.  What's strange for me is that altough under U.S. law this 
is now an anti-trust issue I am unable to understand why it is not an 
anti-trust case when a merger with Microsoft is proposed.  Some 
senior European Union legal figures have said similar things in 
public when they fined M$ for their monopoly and for ignoring EU law 
to do with monopolies...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Microsoft_antitrust_case
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/technology/11microsoft.html
http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/26642/news.htm
http://curia.europa.eu/en/actu/communiques/cp07/aff/cp070063en.pdf

The judge/s is/were critical of the American legal system and some of 
it's senior representatives.  The Groklaw site has one or two useful 
links as well.

http://www.groklaw.net/


-- 
Richard

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