BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : OCTOBER 9, 2000 ISSUE
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INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS How Monti Targets Mergers in the New Economy MEDIA Looks set to block Time Warner's merger with Britain's EMI and impose strict conditions on Time Warner's proposed merger with AOL, fearing the combinations will dominate online music markets. Vivendi's proposed takeover of Seagram faces close scrutiny. INFRASTRUCTURE Torpedoed MCIWorldCom's merger with Sprint and imposed stringent conditions on the tieup between Sweden's Telia and Norway's Telnor, which would dominate Internet-backbone networks. That deal later fell apart. DIGITAL TELEVISION Blocked Microsoft's ambitions to control software for interactive-TV boxes by forcing the Seattle giant to give up control of British cable operator Telewest. BSkyB had to allow competitors access to British and German interactive-TV operations. MOBILE TELEPHONES Forced Vodafone and Vivendi to promise equal nondiscriminatory access for competitors to their mobile-Internet portal Vizzavi. B2B MARKETPLACES Will focus in coming months on the growing number of online exchanges being formed by many of Europe's largest companies. DATA: BUSINESS WEEK, EUROPEAN COMMISSION _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ BACK TO TOP					RELATED ITEMS Europe's Competition Equalizer (int'l edition) TABLE: How Monti Targets Mergers in the New Economy INTERACT E-Mail to Business Week Online

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