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Microsoft Unbundles Teams in EU Antitrust Settlement with Slack
13 Sep 2025 12:40 GMT
… to rest a protracted antitrust battle over its Teams … from GeekWire, underscores the EU’s aggressive stance on tech … Tech Giants: Lessons in Antitrust and Market Dynamics
This settlement … influencing how companies like Google or Apple package their ecosystems …
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Microsoft Will Lower Price of Office 365 Without Teams Platform, Avoiding EU Antitrust Fine
13 Sep 2025 02:17 GMT
… European Union dispute with Slack and avoiding a fine by the EU … giant was charged with EU antitrust violations in June 2024 …
Teams competitors (like Slack, Google Meet and Zoom) will have … different communications platform.
The EU announcement "sends a …
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Microsoft resolves European Union probe into Teams
12 Sep 2025 11:38 GMT
LONDON (AP) — European Union regulators have accepted Microsoft’s … Teams, resolving a long-running antitrust investigation that targeted the company … -nation bloc’s top antitrust authority, fined Google nearly 3 billion euros …
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Microsoft Avoids EU Antitrust Fine by Unbundling Teams from Office
13 Sep 2025 00:57 GMT
… a potentially massive antitrust fine from the European Union by agreeing to … commitments that ultimately convinced EU officials to close the … echoing past EU clashes with tech giants like Google and Apple …
This outcome highlights the EU’s Digital Markets Act, …
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Judge’s Google antitrust ruling singes but doesn’t burn search giant
12 Sep 2025 07:48 GMT
… exclusive agreements that prioritized Google’s search engine and … the remedies lacked teeth. Google competitor DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel … it violated U.S. antitrust laws; the company has … the backdrop of aggressive European Union tech regulations and fines …
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Incompetent technocracy: The EU miscalculated on Google
12 Sep 2025 07:44 GMT
… fine against Google for abusive practices. Specifically, the European Union found that … include the recent US-EU trade agreement.
All of … around six out of ten EU citizens are “favourable” … over the exact same antitrust violation (“monopolizing open-web …
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Microsoft resolves EU Teams probe
12 Sep 2025 23:17 GMT
… avoided a potentially hefty EU antitrust fine by promising reduced … targeted at businesses, the EU competition enforcer said on Friday … best suits their needs,” EU antitrust chief Teresa Ribera said in … ) fine on Alphabet’s Google over its adtech practices, …
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Anti-Free Speech EU Imposes Will on Yet Another Big Tech Company
12 Sep 2025 16:51 GMT
… European Union (E.U.) is imposing its will on Google with … some disturbing demands for Google and the rest … Google $3.5 billion for allegedly failing to comply with European antitrust … policies. Notably, Google, YouTube and …
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Salesforce says ‘Microsoft’s anticompetitive tying of Teams' harmed business in triumphant response to EU concessions agreement
12 Sep 2025 16:01 GMT
… Microsoft concessions following an antitrust probe over its bundling … subscriptions.
The decision by EU lawmakers means Microsoft will avoid … and Microsoft 365 subscriptions. EU Lawmakers agreed with the claims … to follow ITPro on Google News to keep tabs …
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Microsoft avoids EU antitrust fine with Teams commitments
12 Sep 2025 12:21 GMT
… suits their needs," said EU competition chief Teresa Ribera.
… The commission -- the EU's antitrust regulator -- had concluded … the commission, the EU's antitrust and digital rules enforcer … three-billion-euro fine on Google for favouring its own …