Want China Times
Date: 2015-04-30
By: CNA

The Taiwan branch of Dell, the world’s third-largest PC maker, was fined NT$2

A Dell logo in front of its Taiwan branch in Taipei, July 2009. (Photo/Wang Chin-ho)

million (US$65,600) Wednesday by Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) for taking action to restrain competition.

Dell Taiwan was found to have violated fair trade rules pertaining to “causing another enterprise to discontinue supply, purchase or other business transactions with a particular enterprise for the purpose of injuring that enterprise,” the FTC said in a statement.

In 2013, Dell Taiwan asked a local distributor of an anti-virus suite not to supply the product to the southern region branch of Chunghwa Telecom, according to the findings of the FTC investigation.     [FULL  STORY]