One of Silicon Valley's top investors says you can talk about new algorithms all you want, but until you bring down the costs of the search business--which Thiel pegs at $5-10 billion a year per company--it's going to remain a one-horse industry.READ»
Google is alleged to have abused its position as king of searchengineland, and the European Union has just announced it's launching a large inquiry.READ»
Monopoly may not have a technical monopoly on the game industry, but
it's certainly ubiquitous: Hasbro has sold 275 million of the board
games since its 1935 debut, which have bankrolled more than 1 billion
players. Emboldened by ...READ»
Chip-making giant Intel has been a bad company during various parts of its life, waging an anticompetitive war against its rivals. The FTC's been investigating in the U.S. and has just settled with the company. READ»
As Google grows in size, so does its political influence. And, while this may not overly worry most people, there is one man who is keeping a close watch on the search engine firm. He is Consumer Watchdog's John Simpson, and one gets ...READ»
Google's just popped up a blog posting that's absolutely, completely, utterly designed to tease: It's titled "Coming tomorrow ..." and it says Google's about to explain what Google does for the economy. All of the economy. Coming from ...READ»
Intel's just reported its fourth quarter earnings for 2009, and they are impressive--with a headline $10.6 billion in revenue. It seems Intel's profited from fab investments, and the netbook boom. Oh, and suppressing the ...READ»
Uh-oh, one of Google's ever-expanding business tentacles has latched onto a target that's got consumer groups all in a tizzy. It's the Google-AdMob deal, and the worry is Google's consolidation will actually hurt consumers.Not in a ...READ»
The FTC is suing the chip-making giant for monopolistic market abuses. "Intel has engaged in a deliberate campaign to hamstring competitive threats to its monopoly," said Richard A. Feinstein, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition. READ»
Months ago, European lawmakers deemed that Microsoft was abusing its monopoly position (and engaging in other murky shenanigans) to push its Internet Explorer browser onto the public. Microsoft proposed a compromise. And this ...READ»
Remember when URL shortener tr.im announced its closure? Sure you do, it was just two days ago. Well ... it's back. Or it never quite went away. Or it's not going to stay long. Or something like that, according to its blog. What the ...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»
In a move to both punish Microsoft for its anti-competitive actions and to benefit the consumer, the E.U. is requiring the software giant to give Windows users the option to use other browsers instead of Internet Explorer. But this ...READ»
The European Union has just taken a fresh bite at Microsoft's anit-competitive business practices, and accused the company of harming "competition between web browsers" by bundling Internet Explorer with its Windows OSs. It's a ...READ»
