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Scientific data to back up your arguments. if it doesnt actually exist, well, you can pay for it. that is why over the past decade google has financed hundreds of academic papers, paint professors between $40,500,000 apiece. some of the academics did not disclose googles backing. others shared their research with the company prior to publication. devon a researcher in law and technology at princeton spent over $2 million of googles money on conferences and research papers paying authors between ...

Meantime, in other news, qualcomm has been fined million by south korean authorities as antitrust violations. authorities say the company only licensed its key patients to mobile phone makers so investors are concerned about the lucrative licensing. dont forget qualcomm is facing investigations in the u.s. and in europe. meantime, in other news around automakers, u.s. safety regulators are looking into the brakes of the ford fusion and mercury milan sedans made between 2009 and 2011 over fears t...

A lot at stake for them, too, at the table. that said, it has been contentious. donald trump went after tim cook specifically during the apple versus the fbi, when they wanted apple to open up the iphone of the san bernardino shooter, and accused of antitrust violations and against facebook for immigration policy. having covered silicon valley and tech almost seven years, this is a spirited, interesting innovative group of people walking into trump towers. well see exactly the nature of that con...

Were reportedly to be up to before the crisis. keep this in mind. were only talking about 20 bad apples here across all of wall street. >> im wondering about the deterrence effect of this. the doj has these guilty pleas, the fines, will this be enough to stop the banks from engaging in antitrust violations or any other kinds of ethical behavior? >> zero deterrence effect. the fines will be seen as a cost of doing business. the thing that strikes me about this behavior even though it was a small ...

The united nations says 1 million people have fled syria since the civil war began two years ago. most of them get out on foot like you see these people doing. these are people who fear for their lives and for the lives of their families and theyre fleeing at an alarming rate of about 1400 a day. the head of the u.n.s refugee commission describes syria has spiralling toward full scale disaster. in europe, regulators have slapped microsoft with a $730 million fine for antitrust violations. the ...

The company declined, however, to comment specifically on the ftc settlement negotiations, shepard. >> shepard: $22.5 million for google is, like, what 35 cents for you and me. even after its over, google may not be out of trouble here. >> thats right. its five hours of revenue for google, by the way. the ftc continues to investigate google for alleged antitrust violations. the company allegedly manipulated search results to favor its own products. about this case, google says it is happy to exp...

>> reporter: as gas prices started spiking, president obama talked tough about investigating price gouging. >> i asked my attorney general to look into any cases of price gouging so we can make sure nobody is being taken advantage of. >> reporter: if that sounds familiar, it is, part of the rhetorical play book politicians have used for years when gas prices go up. >> a need for investigation of collusion, antitrust violations and price gouging. >> there has been a real gouging going on on fuel....

Want i want to read to you the nfl statement. i wont read the whole thing. it says. we believe that this dispute will inevitably end with a collective bargaining agreement in the best interest of players, clubs and fans. they are still treating it like an owners thing. >> they have been losing antitrust lawsuits since 1974. antitrust violations are the cost of doing business for the national football league. that statement is accurate if you look to the past. every single antitrust loss has resu...

Earlier i asked a sports attorney who represents football players if he thinks there will be a season. >> antitrust violations are the cost of doing business for the national football league, and that statement is accurate if you look to the past. every single antitrust loss has resulted in a collective bargaining agreement. so if past is pro log, this will going to end with a collective bargaining agreement and the parties will be back to work and the fans will be back enjoying football. >> on ...

Roman polanski to the u.s. to face a 33-year-old child sex conviction. in 1977, polanski pleaded guilty in los angeles to having sex with a 13-year-old girl. he fled the country before sentencing. and if you have an iphone, listen up. a court ruling could clear the way for millions of apple iphone users to sue apple and at&t for alleged antitrust violations. a federal judge is allowing a class action suit against the two companies to go ahead and says anyone who signed a two-year iphone contract...