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- Oracle: DOJ dialogue 'very good'; Sun deal on track
- The Justice Department has extended its look at Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems but the software giant says it is confident the deal will close on time. The DOJ is looking at how Java is licensed. In a statement Friday, Dan Wall, Latham & Watkins counsel to...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., U.S. Department Of Justice, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Justice inquiries into Google Book Deal show it's all but dead
- Now, there can be no question that the Google Book Deal is in serious trouble. The New York Times and Wall Street Journal report. It seems the Justice Department has been really ramping up their inquiry into the deal. The Justice Department has sent the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Antitrust, U.S. Department Of Justice, Corporate Law, Litigation, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Feds to probe tech hiring practices; Good luck with that one
- Feds to probe tech hiring practices; Good luck with that oneThis is the same justice departmentThat just ordered charges dropped against the New Black Panthers for voter intimidation despite police reports and video showing them wandering in uniforms and carrying clubs.This administration just nationalized another auto industry.If you think this...
- Tags: tech hiring practice, U.S. Department of Justice, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-03
- Feds to probe tech hiring practices; Good luck with that one
- The Justice Department is reportedly investigating whether tech titans such as Yahoo, Apple and Google are in cahoots on recruiting and hiring practices. If true, these companies could be in violation of antitrust laws. Good luck finding the paper trail on that one. In fact, this DOJ...
- Tags: Talent, Hiring, Google Inc., Antitrust, U.S. Department Of Justice, Exec, Recruitment & Selection, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Are tech companies agreeing not to steal top execs?
- Tom Foremski relates a Deal Pipeline report that the Justice Dept. is looking into collusion among the big tech companies not to poach each others' top employees. [DOJ] has sent letters to at least a dozen major computer hardware and software companies. Google Inc., Yahoo!...
- Tags: Antitrust, U.S. Department Of Justice, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- News to know: University iPhones; Salesforce; Windows 7; Kindle app; DOJ
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Forget the Kindle; University "requires" iPhone Christopher Dawson: Mandatory iPhones at UM worth a bit of...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Dana Blankenhorn, Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, U.S. Department Of Justice, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Smart Phones, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Engineering, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- DOJ signals newly vigorous antitrust enforcement
- DOJ signals newly vigorous antitrust enforcementoppositeEvery time this administration says it is gonna do something ... it has done the oppositeTiming is everythingHow convenient for Microsoft that they had the DOJ in their corner when it counted, and now that the heat is coming back on it's Google's turn.Imaine if...
- Tags: Corporate law, antitrust, Microsoft Corp., U.S. Department of Justice
- Discussion threads 2009-05-11
- DOJ signals newly vigorous antitrust enforcement
- Sounds like Google -- and the rest of the tech industry - can expect a whole lot more antitrust enforcement from the Obama Administration. The New York Times reported that Christine Varney, head of the Justice Department's Antitrust division, gave a speech today prepared remarks here signaling a new,...
- Tags: Antitrust, Christine Varney, U.S. Department Of Justice, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- Reports: Google, DOJ talked about Book Search
- Reports: Google, DOJ talked about Book SearchWhat's the problem? Authors still have control.If another online service decides to start offering authors a better deal than Google, ANY author can opt out of the Google deal and switch to that service. There are no chains attached to their ankles. Right now,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Book Search, U.S. Department of Justice
- Discussion threads 2009-04-29
- Joe Biden: Carrying water for Hollywood?
- Is Joe Biden the copyright industry's point man in the Obama Administration? He certainly has an anti-piracy track record. And the Justice Department is now lousy with RIAA lawyers, as Tiny Mix Tapes points out. Thomas Perrelli, nominated as Associate Attorney General on...
- Tags: RIAA, Lawyer, U.S. Department Of Justice, Perrelli, Verrilli, Hauck, Solicitor General, Gershengorn, Piracy, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- EMC discloses DOJ probe
- EMC said in a regulatory filing that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating allegations of fee arrangements with systems integrators on government contracts. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, EMC said: We have learned that the Civil Division of the United States...
- Tags: U.S. General Services Administration, U.S. Department Of Justice, EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
- DOJ takes final shot at Microsoft
- DOJ takes final shot at Microsoft1999 Relived?Uh: Did I miss something? WHAT is the relavence of repearing a 1999 article? What the ...?
- Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-01-30
- Open source wah a game both parties can play
- Open source wah a game both parties can playFollow the money.In this country, Democrat or Conservative, follow the lobbyists and the incredible slush fund of "incentives" to keep everyone on one proprietary OS and all things related.The DOJ was bought lobbied and MS has never been remotely in compliance.http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2007/09/battle-brewing-between-states-doj-over-microsoft-settlement-expiration.ars[B]The consent...
- Tags: compliance, Microsoft Corp., open source, game
- Discussion threads 2009-01-28
- Judge wants to see legal memos in NSA wiretapping case
- A federal judge has ordered the Justice Dept. to turn over documents relating to the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program. ACLU and EFF had sought the legal opinions under an FOIA request, while Justice merely submitted summaries, claiming attorney-client privilege. Judge Henry Kennedy said the summaries the department provided were inadequate...
- Tags: Judge, Memo, Summary, Richard Koman, Document, U.S. Department Of Justice, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Yahoo, Google, DOJ play let's make a deal; Google could walk
- Yahoo, Google, DOJ play let's make a deal; Google could walkSo Google succeeded how?You state the Yahoo deal was a success because MS didn't buy Yahoo. In retrospect that was actually bad for Google since Yahoo would have done nothing but weigh MS down. If anything it would...
- Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- Yahoo, Google, DOJ play let's make a deal; Google could walk
- Google and Yahoo are talking to the Department of Justice about heading off an antitrust suit over the companies' search advertising deal. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google and Yahoo are offering up concessions to the Department of Justice to push their deal through. For Google,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., U.S. Department Of Justice, Search, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- DOJ backs off ATI
- More good news for AMD. The Department of Justice has officially closed its antitrust investigation into ATI, the graphics chipmaker it bought in 2006. The Justice Department was investigating practices in the hot-and-heavy battle between ATI and Nvidia. Coverage at PCWorld. AMD announced last week saw its...
- Tags: ATI Technologies Inc., U.S. Department Of Justice, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Manufacturing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Can a case be made against the Palin e-mail hacker?
- It's probably only a matter of time before the feds arrest the kid who allegedly hacked into Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account. If the news reports are true, it looks like fingers are pointing to the 20-year-old son of a Democratic state legislator in Tennessee. But, here's...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Service Component Architecture, U.S. Department Of Justice, Hacker, E-mail, Online Communications, Storage, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- DOJ contemplates a bigger fight with Google
- DOJ contemplates a bigger fight with GoogleRE: DOJ contemplates a bigger fight with GoogleI actually should have been clearer on that point. Congress has said it won't act by holding additional committee hearings on the matter in the short-term... Thanks for the comment.Congress should not address the issue at allTheir...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Google Inc., U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2008-09-11
- DOJ contemplates a bigger fight with Google
- The Washington-Google wrestling match has taken another turn and this time, it's the DOJ that's flexing its muscle. Anonymous sources tell CNET that the Department of Justice is contemplating whether to simply challenge the proposed Google-Yahoo ad-sharing deal or swing for the fences by filing broader charges...
- Tags: Google Inc., Antitrust, Yahoo! Inc., U.S. Department Of Justice, Government, Corporate Law, Vertical Industries, Security, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-11

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