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...One of his touchstones for anti-competitive behaviour is the late 1990s US v Microsoft case, in which the company was found guilty of using its operating system monopoly to stifle competitors like Netscape...
...Oh, and there's the small issue that Silicon Valley's origins lie in a symbiotic relationship with the state, in particular the excessive defence spending of the 1950s and 1960s, as Bill Janeway of Warburg...
...On May 3, 2018, the Company and its subsidiary Tesla Motors Netherlands B.V. entered into the Ninth Amendment (the “Ninth Amendment”) to the Credit Agreement....
...A critic of quarterly reporting and short-termism, she has been scathing about Silicon Valley firms which sit on vast piles of money or obsess about self-driving cars....
...It is not for a lack of support from the big guns of Silicon Valley....
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...Last week Oracle broke ranks to become the first Silicon Valley group to support the bill despite the opposition of its peers....
...A former Facebook executive and other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs want to rewrite the playbook for tech IPOs, listing a company on Thursday with the aim of providing a new path to the public market for...
...gizmos coming out of Silicon Valley....
...Ultimately, the Silicon Valley monopolies should be broken up, as every other natural monopoly, from railroads to telephones to utilities, was before. It won’t happen soon....
...Related links: What Hertz tells us about the future of shared mobility – FT Alphaville Shared mobility V.1, USSR edition – FT Alphaville Do the economics of self-driving taxis actually make sense?...
...While Wednesday’s ruling was made as part of a relatively small case, Mohamed v Uber, the court’s decision on arbitration will reverberate through several similar lawsuits involving Uber....
...Nonetheless, the ruling has fueled the ire of European campaigners who have targeted Silicon Valley companies....
...Margrethe Vestager, the EU competition commissioner, has effectively charged the country with offering special incentives to the US company in contravention of EU state aid rules....
...Flag as Important Tom Perkins dies The pioneer of Silicon Valley’s venture capital industry and, more recently, one of its more controversial and outspoken figures,has died at the age of 84....
...To visit Silicon Valley these days is to take a rocket ride into the future....
...in Silicon Valley....
...“There’s unlikely to be the big titan v titan litigation that we saw in the smartphone wars.”...
...Clues to the Silicon Valley company’s legal strategy lies in a case being heard on the other side of the country, in which Apple first stood up to the government’s repeated use of the All Writs Act of 1789...
...Olmstead v. United States....
...Where a design patent is applied to only a component of a product, should an award of infringer’s profits be limited to those profits attributable to the component?”...
...- Ackman v. Berkshire: Whose holdings are more immoral? - Meet the City types publicly backing a UK departure from the EU....
...Lobbying from the likes of Microsoft helped to force the removal of export restrictions on encrypted software. In 1996, a landmark ruling in the case of Bernstein v....
...Forwarded Google v Uber Alphabet is planning to launch a fleet of self-driving cars for hire next year, which will have it competing with Uber....
...Lessons from the Valley: What every female founder needs to know. Man v Machine? As advances in artificial intelligence accelerate, worries about the future spread. 25 to watch....
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