Haavard

Posts tagged with "competition"

How Opera became a big company and started crushing dreams

Thursday, 18. June 2009, 16:41:45

I'm used to Opera being a small company (although with around 700 employees, we are perhaps not "small" anymore?) which always has to keep fighting to be heard in a world dominated by huge corporations that basically own everyone's attention. I'm also used to seeing these giants enter the same markets as Opera, and wondering if they will really care as much about browsers and an open Web as we do.

Well, now I guess I can put things in perspective.

Microsoft files antitrust complaints against Google

Friday, 28. December 2007, 11:02:18

antitrust, google, competition, microsoft

It seems that Microsoft has filed antitrust complaints in both the US and the EU to block Google's acquisition of online ad company DoubleClick. While the acquisition was approved in the US, the EU has yet to come to a decision.