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The European Commission levies an antitrust fine against Microsoft, charging it with violating European Union competition law by illegally linking its Microsoft Teams app with Microsoft Office, giving the former an unfair advantage over Slack.
2024-06-25

The European Commission orders Google to sell off portions of its advertising services in order to comply with anti-competitive practices and threatens to fine the company up to 10% of its global turnover. Google, which relies on advertising services for up to 79% of its revenue, says that it will appeal the order.
2023-06-14

The human rights group International Rights Advocates formally launches a lawsuit in the United States against Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc. (Google), Tesla, Inc., Dell and Microsoft on behalf of 14 Congolese families whose children died or were injured in Copperbelt mines that supply cobalt for the firms' lithium-ion battery products.
2019-12-16

Linux kernel developers, Apple, Google and Microsoft release emergency patches for their products to mitigate ZombieLoad.
2019-05-14

The European Commission imposes a record €2.42bn antitrust fine on internet giant Google for allegedly manipulating its search engine results.
2017-06-27

Bloomberg News reports Verizon Communications plans a bid for Yahoo Inc.’s Web business, including Yahoo Japan Corp., next week. Google, Time Inc., and private equity funds Bain and TPG are considering bidding for Yahoo’s core business. AT&T Inc., Comcast, and Microsoft Corp. reportedly aren't interested.
2016-04-7

The U.S. Justice Department and the Director of National Intelligence reach a preliminary joint agreement, likely resolving a lawsuit with the major American Internet provider companies (Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft, and LinkedIn), about the information the companies can release to customers regarding requests by the intelligence agencies for information.
2014-01-27

The smartphone wars are re-ignited, as Rockstar Consortium, a company owned by companies including Apple and Microsoft, starts wide-ranging legal action against Google, Samsung, and other makers of Android phones.
2013-11-1

Reuters reports on the basis of "people familiar with the matter" that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is close to bringing an antitrust lawsuit against Google over its dominance of the search engine market.
2012-10-13

Two South Korean internet search engines accuse Google of antitrust violations.
2011-04-15