Lawmakers Press On EU Antitrust Ruling

More than 20 lawmakers are urging Justice Department antitrust chief Christine Varney and Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz to view recent European antitrust rulings with a critical eye and weigh the impact of those decisions on US high-tech firms such as Intel, Google, Microsoft, IBM and Qualcomm. Their effort comes on the heels of the European Commission's $1.45 billion judgment against Intel for excluding competitors from the market for chips known as x86 central processing units.