Entries tagged as ‘microsoft’
If you are looking to start your tech business some place in Europe and want to choose a location where your start-up has the best chance of success, you may want to consider Germany’s Berlin. Not only is Berlin known for its vibrant nightlife and its many hip museums, but all of its youth orientated activities and trendy neighbourhoods are now attracting a great deal of innovative entrepreneurs with great success as high tech start-ups are finding great success due to the presence of the many computer savvy grads that line the streets from Berlin universities.
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Categories: Economy
Tagged: berlin universities, city berlin, Economy, europe, Germany, google, google inc, grads, microsoft, microsoft corp, museums, neighbourhoods, presence, rents, start ups, ups, vibrant nightlife
EU Google probe
Microsoft announced this week that they will be filing a complaint with European Union competition regulators against the search engine giant Google due to the fact that the company has been isolating data and content that other competitors need to access. The new complaint will add to a list of others that are filed against Google from other competitors who fear the search result giant and the way it dominates the industry.
General Counsel for Microsoft Brad Smith wrote on a blog post for the company that Google continues to participate in a pattern that blocks off data and content that competitors need to access in order to offer the proper search results to their consumers and as a way to reach more advertisers.
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Categories: Technology
Tagged: advertisers, brad smith, competition regulators, consumers, european commission, european union, filing a complaint, general counsel, giant, google, microsoft, microsoft complaint, proper search, search engine, search result, subsidiary, web companies
