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[News] US FTC May Once Again Turn Blind Eye to Anticompetitive Behaviour

Rambus soars on FTC speculation 

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| The wild man of IT stocks saw its share price rocket by a third
| yesterday on rumours the US Federal Trade Commission won't penalise
| Rambus too much for antitcompetitive behaviour.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35801


Context:

FTC Finds Rambus Unlawfully Obtained Monopoly Power

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| In an opinion by Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour, the Commission
| found that, through a course of deceptive conduct, Rambus was able to
| distort a critical standard-setting process and engage in an
| anticompetitive "hold up" of the computer memory industry.
|
| [...]
|
| In June 2002, the FTC charged Rambus with violating federal antitrust
| laws by deliberately engaging in a pattern of anticompetitive acts to
| deceive an industry-wide standard-setting organization, which
| caused or threatened to cause substantial harm to competition
| and consumers...
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                http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2006/08/rambus.htm 

The Global Justice Department doees take that c**p (yesterday).

Former exec at Elpida Memory to plead guilty in computer chip probe

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| Sogas is charged with discussing with competitors the prices of DRAM to be 
| sold to certain customers and agreeing with competitors to coordinate bids 
| submitted to Sun Microsystems Inc.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/16029972.htm

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