{"id":6560,"date":"2008-02-27T07:08:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T07:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/eu-fines-microsoft-135-billion.html"},"modified":"2008-02-27T07:08:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T07:08:39","slug":"eu-fines-microsoft-135-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/microsoft\/eu-fines-microsoft-135-billion.html","title":{"rendered":"EU Fines Microsoft $1.35 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU just fined Microsoft 899 million euros or $1.35 billion for failing to comply with a 2004 antitrust ruling which focused on the world&#8217;s largest software company charging unreasonable prices.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders how any acquisition will get approved in the EU in light of these circumstances&#8230; Especially one of Yahoo, the world&#8217;s most popular website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB120410839397596531.html?mod.value.wsjTechAlert\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU just fined Microsoft 899 million euros or $1.35 billion for failing to comply with a 2004 antitrust ruling which focused on the world&#8217;s largest software company charging unreasonable prices. One wonders how any acquisition will get approved in the EU in light of these circumstances&#8230; Especially one of Yahoo, the world&#8217;s most popular<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,1675],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}