Intel to lay off more people in Europe
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| Our European sources are howling that Intel plans to get rid of an
| additional chunk of workforce and this time it plans to target those
| in Europe.
|
| [...]
|
| Intel already fired 10,500 people and it seems that is not the end of it.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34597
Short indictment ('scare tactics', OEM's, ties with Microsoft, and abuse of
monopoly power):
Intel's worst nightmare
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| Dwindling market share isn't the No. 1 chipmaker's only problem,
| says Fortune's Roger Parloff. It needs to mount a fierce defense to
| AMD's epic antitrust lawsuit.
|
| [...]
|
| In June 2000 a federal judge found that Microsoft had illegally
| maintained its monopoly on PC operating systems and ordered BillG
| ates' company split in two. A year later, however, portions of the
| ruling were overturned, and Microsoft then settled-avoiding a breakup.
|
| [...]
|
| In the days ahead we'll be hearing much about this suit-the most
| important antitrust case since U.S. v. Microsoft (Charts) in 1998-anda
| bout related probes of, or actions against, Intel now taking place in
| the European Union, Japan, and Korea.
|
| [...]
|
| What is monopolistic behavior?
|
| Yet the suit is commanding the attention of the global business community
| for another reason too. It's seen as a bellwether for a mega-issue
| roiling competition law today: Assuming for the sake of argument that
| Intel did do what AMD alleges, is that illegal?
|
| For while there is wide consensus among antitrust experts about the
| harmfulness and, consequently, illegality of collusive activity among
| competitors - e.g., cartelization, bid-rigging, price-fixing-there is
| no comparable agreement about conduct by one very big competitor acting
| alone.
|
| What's still largely undefined is precisely when tactics by such a
| player cross the line from vigorous competition into unlawful preservationo
| f a monopoly (the American term) or abuse of dominance (the Europeant
| erm). The ambiguous outcome of the U.S. government's case against
| Microsoft - whose practices were condemned, but narrowly, and punished,
| but lightly - has spurred more debate than it has quelled.
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http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/08/21/8383598/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote
http://tinyurl.com/pjjux
German anti-trust officials received complaint against Intel
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| The Financial Times claimed the FCO has in its possession a letter from
| a Saturn employee that implied Intel gave the retailer financial
| incentives not to stock AMD-based PCs.
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/07/12/intel_german_fco_complaint/
AMD's Ruiz: Intel continues to abuse monopoly
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| "Monopolies, at all costs, must protect their market share to protect
| their business models," Ruiz said at a meeting of the Commonwealth Club
| in downtown San Francisco Wednesday evening. AMD alleged in June 2005
| that Intel has used the selective distribution of marketing funds and
| rebates to illegally entice PC companies into excluding AMD from their
| products, a charge Intel has denied.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10791_3-6117924.html?part=rss&tag=6117924&subj=newsv
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