Microsoft faces a hefty antitrust fine after the European Commission on Tuesday accused it of illegally linking its chat and video app Teams with its Office product. Two decades after Microsoft's last EU fine, the EU competition watchdog's latest action was triggered by a 2020 complaint from rival workspace messaging app Slack, owned by Salesforce. The European Commission, which acts …
Microsoft said on Thursday its European Union cloud customers would be able to process and store all personal data in the region as part of a phased roll-out plan. Amazon Web Services said in October it would allow data storage on servers located in the EU. For big companies, data storage has become so large and distributed across so many …
Microsoft Corp.’s $13 billion investment into OpenAI Inc. is facing the potential of a full-blown European Union merger probe, after a mutiny at the ChatGPT creator laid bare deep ties between the two companies. The European Commission said on Tuesday that it’s examining whether Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI might be reviewable under the bloc’s merger rules. By integrating OpenAI’s products …
