RedPrairie and JDA Software, recognized leaders in enterprise software and services for the extended supply chain, announced today that JDA and affiliates of RedPrairie have entered into a definitive merger agreement. The combined entity ...
Tags: RedPrairie, JDA Software, software, extended supply chain
This two-part entry is actually the second half of my previous post about why there weren’t nearly enough bikes in model year 2012 and why we don’t seem to be able to do anything about the chronic under- or over-supply of ...
Tags: bikes, Model Years
Maryland-based Coventry Health Care has announced receipt of approval from its stockholders for the proposed acquisition by Connecticut-based Aetna. Aetna had inked an acquisition agreement with Coventry in August 2012. The company is ...
Tags: Coventry Health Care, Aetna
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced that it would not oppose Nestlé's $11.85bn deal to acquire Pfizer's infant nutrition business. However, the commission asked Nestlé to license its brand ...
Tags: ACCC, Nestlé, acquire, infant nutrition
IDG News Service-The U.S.Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit accusing eBay of entering into a"handshake"agreement to not recruit or hire employees of software maker Intuit. The DOJ,in an antitrust lawsuit filed Friday,seeks to ...
Tags: Ebay, handshake"agreement, U.S.Department of Justice, software maker
Apple's warranty offerings could be pulled in the European Union in the wake of inquiries the E.U.Justice Commissioner is making into possible misleading sales practices,also known as misselling. On Tuesday the international tech giant ...
Tags: Apple, EU, warranty, misselling
After leaving--or losing--his job at Microsoft.Steven Sinofsky will probably not be standing in an unemployment line. The 23-year veteran of Microsoft,and until Monday,its top Windows executive,has nearly 650,000 shares of company ...
Tags: U.S., Sinofsky, Microsoft, Microsoft Stock
Microsoft's 16-month browser ballot screw-up in the European Union cost Mozilla an estimated 8.8 million downloads of its Firefox browser,the open-source vendor's head lawyer said Tuesday. Microsoft faces fines that could reach into ...
IDG News Service-A San Francisco court will hear arguments next month against a proposed US$22.5 million privacy settlement between Google and the U.S.Federal Trade Commission,over Google's use of cookies to track the Web movements of users ...
Tags: Google, U.S.Federal Trade Commission, cookies, Apple
After the European Commission on Wednesday formally objected to Microsoft regarding the company's failure to fulfill its commitment to offer Windows users a free choice of browser in settlement of an earlier antitrust case, Microsoft said ...
WASHINGTON --- The majority of merchant plaintiffs in a multibillion-dollar proposed antitrust settlement over credit card swiping fees now say they oppose the agreement with Visa, MasterCard and some of the nation's largest banks. "The ...
Tags: credit card
Microsoft and Google are to feel the full force of EU regulations this month as antitrust and privacy concerns threaten to catch up with the technology giants. The EU could issue Microsoft with a formal antitrust complaint, after it ...
Tags: Microsoft, Google, European Commission, BCS
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should "tread carefully" before bringing an antitrust complaint against Google, a veteran U.S. lawmaker said as news reports suggested the agency is ready to move forward. Representative Jared Polis, a ...
Tags: Google, FTC, advertising services, search engines, Antitrust Probe
3M's proposed acquisition of Avery Dennison's office and consumer products division has been scuttled. Earlier in September, both companies declared that the arrangement was still on despite a statement from the US Department of Justice ...
Tags: 3M's, Avery Dennison, own brand, office supplies
The companies make and distribute polystyrene(PS)foam trays and polypropylene(PP)rigid trays.These products are widely used for packaging food–such as fish,meat or cheese–in the retail sector. The EC said that these firms ...
Tags: EC, PS foam trays, PP rigid trays, EU antitrust rules