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Google steps up Microsoft criticism, warns of rival’s monopoly in cloud
28Feb By adminNo Comments
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Google steps up Microsoft criticism, warns of rival’s monopoly in cloud

[ad_1] eAlphabet's Google Cloud on Monday ramped up its criticism of Microsoft's cloud computing practices, saying its rival is seeking a monopoly that would harm the development of emerging technologies such as generative artificial intelligence.Microsoft and Amazon have recently attracted scrutiny in Britain, the European Union and the United States over their market power in cloud computing. Google trails a distant third behind the two leaders. Microsoft's collaboration with ChatGPT creator OpenAI has also ratcheted up the concerns. "We worry about Microsoft wanting to flex their decade-long practices where they had a lot of monopoly on the on-premise software before and now they are trying to push that into cloud now," Google Cloud Vice President Amit Zavery said in an interview."So...
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Google Planned to ‘Go Big in Europe’ After EU Android Case
10Nov By adminNo Comments
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Google Planned to ‘Go Big in Europe’ After EU Android Case

[ad_1]  Google — under fire in court for allegedly resting on its laurels thanks to its 90% market dominance — only made an effort to beef up the quality of its search engine in the European Union after being hit by a record antitrust fine, according to internal documents revealed in the US Justice Department's monopolization case against the tech giant.Alphabet Inc.'s Google planned to improve its European search results only after a record 2018 European antitrust fine, according to the documents, which revealed that Google executives discussed a plan dubbed “Go Big in Europe.” The plan aimed to improve results in France and Germany in 2019 and 2020 with changes such as adding post-game soccer video highlights, more local content and news, pronunciation practice for different languages...
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Microsoft Facing Formal EU Complaint Over Teams Video App
19Sep By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft Facing Formal EU Complaint Over Teams Video App

[ad_1] Microsoft Corp.'s attempt at avoiding deeper European Union scrutiny of its Teams video-conferencing app fell flat with the bloc's antitrust enforcers readying a formal complaint against the firm's conduct.Microsoft's recent proposal to split its Teams from a broader business software package and sell it to customers separately with an annual discount wasn't enough to satisfy regulators' concerns, according to people familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The European Commission is preparing a statement of objections to send to the company, which could come in the next few months, the people said. At the end of August, Microsoft attempted to allay concerns raised by the EU's antitrust arm as part of a new investigation into how it ties Teams to its Office ...
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Google hit with copyright lawsuit by Danish online job-search rival
1Sep By adminNo Comments
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Google hit with copyright lawsuit by Danish online job-search rival

[ad_1] Alphabet's Google was hit with a lawsuit on Thursday by Danish online job-search rival Jobindex, a year after the latter complained to EU antitrust regulators that the U.S. tech giant unfairly favoured its own job-search service.The Danish Media Association on behalf of Jobindex sued Google at a Danish court alleging copyright violations. Jobindex has accused Google of copying job ads to its own service without permission and wants compensation and damages for copyright violations. This is the first lawsuit in the Danish courts under new EU copyright rules regarding platforms' liability for content uploaded to their services that came into force in 2021."We're willing to compete with Google, but it must be on equal terms, not with Google for Jobs having products on its shelves th...
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Microsoft to unbundle Teams from Office, seeks to avert EU antitrust fine
1Sep By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft to unbundle Teams from Office, seeks to avert EU antitrust fine

[ad_1] Microsoft said on Thursday it would unbundle its chat and video app Teams from its Office product and make it easier for competing products to work with its software, but rivals said it may need to do more to stave off a possible EU antitrust fine.The proposed changes came a month after the European Commission launched an investigation into Microsoft's tying of Office and Teams, following a complaint by Salesforce-owned competing workspace messaging app Slack in 2020. Microsoft's moves announced on Thursday were similar to preliminary concessions that had failed to address regulatory concerns. The EU competition enforcer said it took note of the company's announcement and declined further comment. The Commission could hit the company with formal charges in the autumn unless it be...
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Qualcomm looks to Europe court again to overturn antitrust fine
14Mar By adminNo Comments
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Qualcomm looks to Europe court again to overturn antitrust fine

[ad_1] U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm returned to Europe's second-top court on Monday seeking to overturn a 242-million-euro ($258.4 million) EU antitrust fine, a year after it convinced the same court to throw out a much bigger penalty in another antitrust case.The European Commission slapped the fine on Qualcomm in 2019 for selling its chipsets below cost between 2009 and 2011, in a practice known as predatory pricing, to stymie British phone software maker Icera, now part of Nvidia Corp. The company last year secured a major win as it convinced the General Court to scrap a 997 million euro EU antitrust fine in another case related to payments made to Apple to use only its chips in all its iPhones and iPads in order to block out rivals such as Intel Corp. Qualcomm lawyer Miguel Rato critici...
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