The European Commission has landed six LCD panel makers with a collective fine of over $800 million for a price-fixing cartel that operated between 2001 and 2006. Samsung, for ratting out its fellow fixers, had its fine nixed.READ»
Boom! This is a broadside attack fired right into Microsoft's exposed flank: It's just lost a court case against Canadian firm i4i over patents. The penalty is a $290 million fine, and an order to fix MS Word's code, or stop selling ...READ»
Intel has been found guilty of anti-competitive behavior by European lawmakers, as rumors earlier this week suggested. The size of the fine--$1.45 billion--is the most astonishing among the punishments meted out to the chip-maker ...READ»
Sony BMG has been stung with a $1 million fine this week by the U.S government in a legal case centering on violations of federal rules protecting children online.
Sony improperly allowed children under 13 to register on its ...READ»