• Thumbnail for FTC v. Microsoft
    Blizzard in 2022. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sought a temporary injunction against Microsoft in its effort to acquire Activision Blizzard. In...
    35 KB (3,176 words) - 22:34, 22 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for FTC v. Meta
    an ongoing antitrust court case brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against Facebook parent company Meta Platforms. The lawsuit alleges that...
    13 KB (1,212 words) - 23:02, 18 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for FTC v. Amazon
    company and online retailer Amazon in 2023. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), joined by the attorneys general of seventeen U.S. states, alleges that...
    7 KB (503 words) - 02:29, 6 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for United States v. Microsoft Corp.
    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...
    41 KB (4,340 words) - 13:21, 28 March 2025
  • Federal Trade Commission v. Qualcomm Incorporated was a noted American antitrust case, in which the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accused Qualcomm's licensing...
    11 KB (1,424 words) - 06:36, 9 February 2025
  • 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...
    111 KB (8,945 words) - 00:20, 23 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Nintendo Switch 2
    Switch successor console. Court reports from the 2023 FTC v. Microsoft case, which challenged Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, included reference...
    103 KB (10,125 words) - 15:30, 3 June 2025
  • Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at COMDEX, contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint — all three of which remain core products...
    193 KB (16,060 words) - 23:14, 5 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Federal Trade Commission
    The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil (non-criminal)...
    66 KB (6,575 words) - 23:10, 2 June 2025
  • Microsoft Gaming is a multinational video game and digital entertainment division of Microsoft. It creates video games for various platforms, including...
    812 bytes (72 words) - 00:16, 24 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Xbox Series X and Series S
    otherwise unchanged. Unrelated court documents from the 2022 court case FTC v. Microsoft included plans for refreshed mid-generation consoles planned to be...
    133 KB (11,952 words) - 03:30, 12 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914
    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...
    16 KB (2,000 words) - 16:36, 2 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for High Capacity Color Barcode
    High Capacity Color Barcode (HCCB) is a technology developed by Microsoft for encoding data in a 2D "barcode" using clusters of colored triangles instead...
    8 KB (980 words) - 16:35, 30 October 2024
  • 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...
    19 KB (2,074 words) - 20:37, 25 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for United States v. Live Nation Entertainment
    United States, et al. v. Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. and Ticketmaster Entertainment, LLC is an antitrust lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of...
    12 KB (1,080 words) - 02:18, 20 March 2025
  • 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...
    28 KB (2,849 words) - 00:22, 3 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Encarta
    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...
    32 KB (3,037 words) - 13:18, 25 May 2025
  • joint responsibilities for enforcement of the antitrust laws. Though the FTC has some overlapping responsibilities with the Department of Justice, and...
    17 KB (1,883 words) - 05:13, 26 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Epic Games v. Apple
    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...
    106 KB (10,456 words) - 18:56, 22 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for United States v. Google LLC (2020)
    antitrust lawsuit against a high-tech company since the United States v. Microsoft Corp. case in 1998. Legal commentators anticipate that there will likely...
    58 KB (4,886 words) - 15:36, 30 May 2025
  • the United States Supreme Court holding that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) may act against a company's “unfair” business practices even though the...
    9 KB (1,001 words) - 17:49, 2 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for General Motors streetcar conspiracy
    minimal service levels. Many franchise fees were fixed or based on gross (v. net); such arrangements, when combined with fixed fares, created gradual...
    72 KB (8,443 words) - 17:42, 2 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for United States v. Apple (2024)
    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...
    11 KB (982 words) - 01:03, 7 May 2025
  • 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...
    18 KB (2,212 words) - 00:57, 8 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for United States v. Google LLC (2023)
    Center (EPIC), who petitioned the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to scrutinize the deal. The FTC ultimately approved the $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick...
    48 KB (4,655 words) - 21:56, 18 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Successors of Standard Oil
    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"...
    37 KB (3,761 words) - 03:55, 1 May 2025
  • 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...
    12 KB (1,486 words) - 14:53, 29 March 2025
  • 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...
    20 KB (2,210 words) - 15:14, 23 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Doom (franchise)
    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...
    64 KB (4,531 words) - 05:40, 1 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Brad Smith (American lawyer)
    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...
    28 KB (2,565 words) - 03:14, 7 May 2025