The European Commission has decided to prohibit the merger between US telecommunications firms MCI WorldCom Inc and Sprint Corp as it would have resulted in the creation of a dominant position in the market for top-level universal Internet connectivity. The European Commission raided the offices of Dutch mobile telephone companies KPN Telecom NV and Libertel NV to investigate whether they had colluded to fix prices. This means SSSL must allow other companies to have fair access to its services so they can provide their own interactive services to customers.
Communicating quickly is what instant messaging is supposed to be all about.
But AOL is said to be making connecting harder, by stalling efforts to create open standards for this increasingly popular form of online communication so that competing services can connect with its own, which dominates the market. The European Commission has decided to open a full investigation into the proposed merger between AOL and Time Warner, both of the United States. The judge in the Microsoft antitrust case sent the company's appeal directly to the Supreme Court, and suspended stringent business restrictions of the software giant he had ordered to take effect in September. Rupert Murdoch eingereicht. The European Commission has decided to open a full investigation into the proposed merger in the music sector between Time Warner and the EMI Group.