The European Commission recently opened an antitrust investigation of IBM actions regarding its mainframe computer hardware and software. applEcon, working with University of Michigan Professor Kai-Uwe Kühn, provided extensive assistance instrumental to software vendor T3’s European complaint.
Effective July 1, 2010, Jeffrey MacKie-Mason will serve as dean of the School of Information. As a founding faculty member, MacKie-Mason was among the visionaries who designed the School of Information in the mid-1990's.
News America Marketing, a division of the News Corporation that publishes coupon inserts for newspapers and sells in-store advertising in supermarkets, had been sued in three jurisdictions by Valassis, a competitor based in Livonia, Michigan, which accused it of anticompetitive behavior. The company agreed to pay $500 million to settle the litigation.
Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade recently won a Second Circuit Court ruling affirming a previously granted preliminary injunction against certain regulations proposed by the New York City Taxicab & Limousine Commission.