Ties That Bind Users to Their iPods Might be Anticompetitive, District Court Finds
Apple Computer Inc. (“Apple”)’s use of technology that makes the company’s popular iPod and iTunes music store incompatible with other digital music players and online music stores might constitute illegal tying, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled in denying Apple’s motion to dismiss a host of antitrust claims against it.
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FTC Releases Report on Horizontal Merger Investigations
- The Federal Trade Commission released a report on January 25 which detailed the characteristics of the horizontal mergers it has challenged from 1996 to 2005. Although the 6 page written portion of the report only described which variables the FTC had examined, the tables included with the report allow the reader to compare how those variables affect the odds of the FTC challenging a merger for which the it has issued a second request.