Latest shot on Anthropic’s Mythos—China’s cybersecurity giant Qihoo 360 finds 1,000 software vulnerabilities fast, raising global zero-day risksChina’s Qihoo 360 has flagged nearly 1,000 software vulnerabilities using AI in record time. This is a major cybersecurity shift. AI vulner...
22 Apr, 2026, 11.57 PM IST
Microsoft business software faces UK competition probeThe Competition and Markets Authority said the probe would assess whether the US tech company should be handed "strategic market status" (S...
31 Mar, 2026, 11.34 PM IST
Amazon, Microsoft cloud services could face tougher EU rulesAmazon and Microsoft cloud services could face stricter EU competition rules as Brussels probes their market power, the bloc's tech chief s...
18 Nov, 2025, 04.08 PM IST
Microsoft avoids EU fine by answering Teams antitrust concernsEU regulators had preliminarily found during an investigation opened in 2023 that Microsoft had granted Teams an undue competitive advantag...
12 Sep, 2025, 02.43 PM IST
Microsoft faces wide-ranging US antitrust probeThe FTC is probing Microsoft's software licensing and cloud practices. The investigation focuses on potential anti-competitive behavior. Mi...
28 Nov, 2024, 07.44 AM IST
UK clears Microsoft's partnership with Inflection AIThe CMA said that even before being bought, Inflection had a small portion of UK visits for chatbots and AI tools and, unlike its rivals, c...
05 Sep, 2024, 05.56 PM IST
Microsoft's hiring of former Inflection AI staff prompts UK probeUK's CMA is investigating Microsoft's $650 million deal and hiring of Inflection AI staff, founded in 2022 by Mustafa Suleyman, involving i...
16 Jul, 2024, 08.54 PM IST
Microsoft hit with Spanish startups' complaint about cloud practicesThe US tech giant ranks second in the cloud computing sector, behind market leader Amazon but is expected to close the gap rapidly as a clu...
07 May, 2024, 01.53 PM IST
Microsoft-OpenAI's $13-billion deal set to dodge formal EU merger probeEU regulators had said in January that the deal may be subject to merger rules in the region. Microsoft, which has a non-voting position on...
18 Apr, 2024, 01.03 AM IST
EU probes Microsoft's security software practicesCompanies over the years have complained about Microsoft's bundling services and its cloud-computing practices, which European regulators h...
28 Feb, 2024, 09.17 AM IST
Microsoft, OpenAI tie-up comes under antitrust scrutinyThe U.S. Federal Trade Commission is examining the nature of Microsoft's investment in ChatGPT maker OpenAI, and whether it may violate ant...
09 Dec, 2023, 08.06 AM IST
EU antitrust regulators to investigate Microsoft over Teams, Office tyingThe move by the European Commission followed a complaint by Salesforce-owned workspace messaging app Slack in 2020 and after the US tech gi...
27 Jul, 2023, 03.21 PM IST
Big Tech has a formidable foe in Britain's antitrust watchdog after Microsoft blowThe final ruling deals a blow to Microsoft’s chances of securing the world’s biggest gaming takeover and puts the Competition and Markets A...
27 Apr, 2023, 01.44 PM IST
Amazon, Microsoft cloud services face UK antitrust probeOfcom, which started looking into cloud services last year, said it was particularly worried about the practices of Amazon Web Services (AW...
05 Apr, 2023, 06.04 PM IST
Britain's cloud market needs competition probe, regulator saysThe communications regulator said on Wednesday it had uncovered practices and features that made it more difficult for customers to switch ...
05 Apr, 2023, 12.22 PM IST
UK watchdog probes Microsoft's $68.7 billion Activision buyout dealIn the biggest gaming industry deal in history, Microsoft said it was buying Activision Blizzard in January.
06 Jul, 2022, 05.41 PM IST
- MS suffers stunning EU anti-trust defeat
Microsoft lost its appeal of a European Union antitrust ruling, forcing the world’s biggest software maker to pay a record $689 million fin...
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