Blizzard in 2022. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sought a temporary injunction against Microsoft in its effort to acquire Activision Blizzard. In...
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an ongoing antitrust court case brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against Facebook parent company Meta Platforms. The lawsuit alleges that...
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company and online retailer Amazon in 2023. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), joined by the attorneys general of seventeen U.S. states, alleges that...
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United States of America v. Microsoft Corporation, 253 F.3d 34 (D.C. Cir. 2001), was a landmark American antitrust law case at the United States Court...
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Federal Trade Commission v. Qualcomm Incorporated was a noted American antitrust case, in which the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accused Qualcomm's licensing...
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through 2033. The FTC withdrew its request after courts did not find their anti-trust compelling to block the merger, while Microsoft offered to offload...
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Switch successor console. Court reports from the 2023 FTC v. Microsoft case, which challenged Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, included reference...
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Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at COMDEX, contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint — all three of which remain core products...
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Federal Trade Commission (redirect from Federal Trade Commission (FTC))
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil (non-criminal)...
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Microsoft Gaming is a multinational video game and digital entertainment division of Microsoft. It creates video games for various platforms, including...
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Xbox Series X and Series S (redirect from Microsoft Xbox Series X)
otherwise unchanged. Unrelated court documents from the 2022 court case FTC v. Microsoft included plans for refreshed mid-generation consoles planned to be...
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Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 (redirect from FTC Act)
Rulemaking Authority". ftc.gov. Retrieved March 19, 2023. 15 U.S.C. §§ 45m(1)(A)–(B). 15 U.S.C. § 53(b). AMG Capital Mgmt. v. FTC, 141 S.Ct. 1341, 1344...
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High Capacity Color Barcode (redirect from Microsoft Tag)
High Capacity Color Barcode (HCCB) is a technology developed by Microsoft for encoding data in a 2D "barcode" using clusters of colored triangles instead...
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United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., 334 U.S. 131 (1948) (also known as the Hollywood Antitrust Case of 1948, the Paramount Case, or the Paramount...
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United States, et al. v. Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. and Ticketmaster Entertainment, LLC is an antitrust lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of...
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Doom: The Dark Ages (category Microsoft games)
numerous documents submitted by ZeniMax Media parent company Microsoft during the FTC v. Microsoft court case concerning their impending acquisition of Activision...
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Encarta (redirect from Microsoft Encarta)
Microsoft Encarta is a discontinued digital multimedia encyclopedia and search engine published by Microsoft from 1993 to 2009. Originally sold on CD-ROM...
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joint responsibilities for enforcement of the antitrust laws. Though the FTC has some overlapping responsibilities with the Department of Justice, and...
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economic competition." After Apple stated that cloud gaming services like Microsoft's xCloud were not allowed on the iOS platform as they would allow content...
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antitrust lawsuit against a high-tech company since the United States v. Microsoft Corp. case in 1998. Legal commentators anticipate that there will likely...
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the United States Supreme Court holding that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) may act against a company's “unfair” business practices even though the...
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minimal service levels. Many franchise fees were fixed or based on gross (v. net); such arrangements, when combined with fixed fares, created gradual...
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lawsuit contrasts the practices of Apple with those of Microsoft in United States v. Microsoft Corp., and alleges that Apple is engaging in similar tactics...
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Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, 221 U.S. 1 (1911), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled that John D. Rockefeller's petroleum...
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Center (EPIC), who petitioned the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to scrutinize the deal. The FTC ultimately approved the $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick...
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www.aukevisser.nl. Retrieved 2022-09-30. "Exxon-Mobil $82B deal done after FTC approval - Nov. 30, 1999". money.cnn.com. Retrieved 2022-09-30. "Global 500"...
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Games v. Google (2023) FTC v. Microsoft (2023) United States v. Google LLC (2024) United States v. Google LLC (2025) Ongoing litigation ‡ FTC v. Meta...
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recognize the union. During the ABK Workers Alliance's organizing efforts, Microsoft announced that it would be acquiring the company for US$70 billion. The...
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Doom (franchise) (category Microsoft franchises)
internal ZeniMax presentation, dated to 2020 and released as part of the FTC v. Microsoft case in 2023, indicated that a game entitled Doom: Year Zero was in...
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Brad Smith (American lawyer) (category Microsoft employees)
American attorney and business executive who became vice chairman of Microsoft in 2021, and president in 2015. He previously was a senior vice president...
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