Tag archive: fine

Micky Arison, the owner of the Miami Heat, got a nasty surprise on Monday from officials at the NBA. Arison was hit with a half million dollar fine for using his Twitter account to respond to fans about the lockout. Arison, also the CEO of the Carnival cruise line, has about 25,000 followers and the account has been verified by Twitter. The tweets that caught the attention of NBA officials occurred on Friday when Arison fired off a series of… Read More

The refunds will total in the range of $50 to $90 million dollars and be distributed to 15 million customers. Rumblings at the FCC began after an avalanche of complains poured in from Verizon customers charging that while they had never actively used data on their phone, Verizon had taken the liberty of charging them for it. Well apparently some of these customers were either using a small amount of data running in the background or they may… Read More

Last week in court, Boston college student Joel Tenenbaum admitted illegally downloading and sharing music files. As a result, he’s been hit with a fine of $675,000, payable to four major record labels. Tenenbaum told AP he was initially happy the fine wasn’t in the millions: "That to me sends a message of 'We considered your side with some legitimacy'." However, his lawyer is planning an appeal.… Read More

Once again Microsoft has been forced to dip into its wallet to pay a fine in Europe. This time it’s in Germany, where the BundesKartellamt, or competition authority, has fined the company nine million Euros (almost $12 million) for price fixing on its Office Home and Student 2007 software suite. In a statement, the BundesKartellamt said: “The product in question was heavily advertised in the autumn of 2008 in stationary… Read More

Microsoft is battling to have the massive $1.4 billion fine imposed on it by the EU after violating a 2004 antitrust agreement set aside. According to court filings obtained by Reuters, the company claims the fine was excessive and unreasonable. It was imposed after the European Commission decide that Microsoft code licenses were too expensive for most developers, which made the code inaccessible, and therefore violated the antitrust… Read More

Software giant Microsoft has filed an appeal with the European Court of First Instance contesting the $1.4 billion (€899) fine the court levied against the company for failing to comply with a 2004 antitrust settlement. In late 2007, Microsoft 3 on the case, deciding not to appeal a decision that upheld the terms of the 2004 agreement. In doing so, Microsoft agreed to provide information so third party developers could build products… Read More

In a move which clearly indicates their patience sis at an end, regulators for the European Union have fined Microsoft €280.5 million (about US $357.7 million) for failing to comply with the terms of a 2004 antirust settlement. And that's just the first step: the EU plans to hit Microsoft with bigger fines starting next month if the Redmond software giant doesn't toe the line. The current fine covers the period from… Read More

“In March 2004 the commission imposed a record fine of 497 million euros on Microsoft, a fine paid in December, but on Thursday the commission accused the company of not applying some other measures against it. One of these decisions was that Micosoft market a version of its leading software Windows without video software Media Player. Another required the company to divulge information about its product operating system needed… Read More

Lindows, based in San Diego, California, said it had withdrawn from the three countries after it received legal papers demanding that it pay a fine of up to 100,000 euros a day for failing to comply with an earlier court order. Microsoft, which is often embroiled in legal battles with competitors, has pursued Lindows in courts around the world, alleging trademark infringement of its Windows brand name by Lindows, which offers a… Read More