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Microsoft Was Behind Google Complaints To EC
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| A lawyer for Microsoft confirmed that the
| software giant told the US Department of
| Justice and the European Commission how
| Googleâs business practices may be harming
| publishers, advertisers and competition in
| search and online advertising.
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http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/microsoft-was-behind-google-complaints-to-ec-5555
Microsoft Behind Google Complaints To EC
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/03/01/180243/Microsoft-Behind-Google-Complaints-To-EC
Microsoft Hoist by its Own Anti-Anti-Competitive Petard
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| One of the decisive moments in computing
| history was when Microsoft was investigated for
| and found guilty of breaching US rules on anti-
| competitive behaviour.
|
| Microsoft's line in defending itself was that
| it was not anti-competitive, that this
| investigation was all down to desperate, failed
| competitors trying to take their petty revenge
| by setting the government on the company, and
| that it should be allowed to âinnovateâ,
| untrammelled by those silly governmental
| authorities that just don't understand all this
| groovy technology stuff.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2817&blogid=14
Recent:
Report: Rupert Murdoch "Ready To Sue" Google
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| Although a few months have passed since the
| last big flareup, News Corp. may still be
| willing to go to war with Google. A fresh
| report indicates that Rupert Murdoch is
| indeed prepared to take the search giant to
| court, and has been talking to Microsoft
| about an exclusive deal, too.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/03/01/report-rupert-murdoch-ready-to-sue-google
Google tells Murdoch to shut up
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| But Schmidt said Google is a "great source
| of promotion" for newspapers through its
| aggregator website Google News and other
| services.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1564786/google-tells-murdoch-shut
Microsoft backs away from Murdoch love-in
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| Or at least, Microsoft is not prepared to
| go exclusive with the hard-nosed Aussie and
| other media moguls. Not this week, anyway.
|
| Reports last week said that the two firms -
| who share a common interest in slapping
| Google - were working on a deal that would
| lead to News Corp's content only being
| available through Microsoft's Bing search
| engine. In exchange for some Microsoft
| cash, of course.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/03/microsoft_google/
MS kills 'Bing buys the news' furore, but Google could still lose it
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| Microsoft has firmly ruled out the notion
| of paying news publishers to de-index their
| content from Google. But you knew that
| already. Speaking at the unveiling of new
| Bing features in San Francisco yesterday,
| senior online services VP Satya Nadella
| said that Microsoft was not focused on
| getting exclusive content, and that "there
| is no real intent here that is focused on
| getting a whole bunch of content that is
| de-indexed from Google".
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/03/ms_google_bribes_nixed/
Huffington: News Corp.'s Google-Free Ploy 'Ain't Gonna Happen'
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| Count Arianna Huffington among those who
| doubt that Rupert Murdoch will pull News
| Corp's articles from Google's search index in
| favor of giving Bing exclusive access.
|
| "I'll gladly wager my share of The Huffington
| Post that this ain't gonna happen," she said
| this morning at the Federal Trade Commission
| workshop "How Will Journalism Survive the
| Internet Age."
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http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=118328
Related:
Murdoch papers paid Â1m to gag phone-hacking victims
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| Rupert Murdoch's News Group NewsÂpapers has paid out more than Â1m to settle
| legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists' repeated
| involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/08/murdoch-papers-phone-hacking
Times Online denies knowledge of link spam campaign
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| Piotr Wyspianski, a manager at Sitelynx, was revealed on the Waxy.org blog to
| have waged a one-man campaign to game web aggregation communities such as
| Digg, Metafilter and StumbleUpon with over a thousand links to Times Online
| stories. Before working for Sitelynx, he had form for a similar astroturfing
| effort for his own online jewellery store.
|
| Predictably, the Waxy.org story has hit the front page of Digg and some
| Diggers have piled in to condemn Times Online, blaming a conspiracy by the
| original Digger himself. "I haven't respected The Times since Murdoch bought
| it, since that effectively means I can no longer trust its content. Fuck you
| old man!" wrote one.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/31/times_online_link_spam/
Hacker testifies News Corp unit hired him
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| The trial could result in hundreds of millions of dollars in damage awards.
|
| NDS, which provides security technology to a global satellite network that
| includes satellite TV service DirecTV, denies the claims, saying it was only
| engaged in reverse engineering -- looking at a technology product to
| determine how it works, a standard in the electronics industry.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN2334980420080424?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews&rpc=22&sp=true
http://tinyurl.com/4lyhpc
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