Aoife White

November 10, 2021 | Daily Business Review

European Union's General Court judges backed the EU's finding that Google shouldn't favor its own shopping service over rivals, an issue that's triggered complaints against other tech giants.

By Stephanie Bodoni and Aoife White

4 minute read

July 11, 2014 | Daily Business Review

The European Union court said citizens have a right to be forgotten when Internet searches throw up results that are "inadequate, irrelevant, no longer relevant, or excessive."

By Aoife White and Angeline Benoit

5 minute read

October 07, 2009 | Daily Report Online

BRUSSELS AP - European Union regulators said Wednesday they were preparing to settle a long and costly antitrust battle with Microsoft Corp. with a deal to give Windows users a choice of web browsers.Microsoft promised the changes after the EU charged it with monopoly abuse for tying the Internet Explorer browser to the Windows operating system installed on most of the world's desktop computers.

By AOIFE WHITE

3 minute read

June 02, 2010 | Daily Report Online

BRUSSELS AP - The European Union's executive on Wednesday called for European credit rating agencies to rival the three U.S.-based market leaders and proposed a new regulatory authority to oversee them with the power to impose fines.EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the EU was also considering setting up its own rating agency.

By AOIFE WHITE

5 minute read

July 14, 2008 | Daily Report Online

ST. LOUIS/BRUSSELS, Belgium AP - The maker of the King of Beers has agreed to go to work for the Belgian brewer InBev.Anheuser Busch Cos. said early Monday it had agreed to a sweetened $52 billion takeover bid from Inbev, heading off what had promised to be a long and acrimonious fight for the maker of Budweiser and Bud Light beers.

By CHRISTOPHER LEONARD and AOIFE WHITE

5 minute read

August 24, 2007 | Law.com

European Union regulators said on Aug. 23 they had charged U.S. memory chip maker Rambus Inc. with antitrust abuse, alleging that the company set "unreasonable" royalties for DRAM patents fraudulently set as industry standards. The EU's preliminary charges come weeks after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission ruled that the company deceived a standards-setting committee, failing to disclose that its patents had been incorporated into an industry standard for memory technology.

By Aoife White

3 minute read

June 11, 2010 | Legaltech News

Former EU antitrust chief Neelie Kroes fined Microsoft millions of euros for refusing to share data with rivals and tying its web browser to Windows. Now, as EU's top internet official, she warns governments against using costly, proprietary software for their technology systems.

By Aoife White

3 minute read

May 04, 2007 | Law.com

Belgian French-language newspapers were back on Google on Thursday after agreeing that the search engine can link to their Web sites, the first signs of a thaw in a bitter copyright dispute. In February, Google lost a lawsuit filed by the newspapers that forced it to remove headlines and links to news stories posted on its Google News service without the copyright owners' permission. But neither has so far settled on a key part of the dispute: the use of newspaper story links used on Google News.

By Aoife White

3 minute read

May 12, 2006 | Law.com

Luxembourg-based Arcelor SA said Thursday it is accusing rival Mittal Steel Co. in a lawsuit of infringing its intellectual property rights to Usibor, a highly resistant coated steel used in the automotive industry. Arcelor spokesman Jean Lasar said the suit was not connected to Arcelor's efforts to fend off Mittal's unsolicited $27 billion takeover bid, which the company has rebuffed.

By Aoife White

2 minute read

October 23, 2007 | Law.com

The European Union executive suggested Oct. 23 that Europe should strike an anti-piracy pact with the United States, Japan and Korea that would help them all do more to stamp out counterfeit goods. It said this would set out new global norms for protecting intellectual property rights that guarantee a stream of revenue for the developers of new products because they can license their designs for others to make.

By Aoife White

3 minute read