Tag archive: Clayton Act

The Federal Trade Commission is looking at it as a possible breach of antitrust laws, but Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, is adamant that he won’t quit his position on the board of Apple. Schmidt said: "If there are issues on competitiveness, I recuse myself." And those issues are definitely there, given that Google has the Chrome and Android OS, while Apple offers Safari – he also leaves the boardroom when talk… Read More

It's no secret that Apple and Google have been on fairly friendly terms over the last few years: a few examples include the iPhone tying in with services like YouTube and Google Maps as soon as it became available, and Google's Chrome browser being based on WebKit, the same KHTML-derived codebase that Apple uses for its own Safari Web browser. That overlap extends the the companies' boards of directors too, where both… Read More

As part of AMD's long-running antitrust battle with rival chipmaker Intel, Federal District Judge Joseph Farnan has ordered Intel to product discovery evidence related to Intel's business practices outside the UNited States. Earlier in December, the Special Master assigned to the case, Vincent Poppiti, ruled that Intel should turn over international discovery evidence, agreeing with AMD's assertion the chip market was… Read More

AMD announced today that it filed an antitrust complaint against Intel Corporation yesterday in U.S. federal district court for the district of Delaware under Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, Sections 4 and 16 of the Clayton Act, and the California Business and Professions Code. The 48-page complaint explains in detail how Intel has unlawfully maintained its monopoly in the x86 microprocessor market by engaging in worldwide coercion… Read More