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Cisco challenges Microsoft's Skype acquisition in EU court
2013-05-30 10:07:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Cisco and Italian VoIP provider Messagenet have challenged the European Commission's 2011 approval of Microsoft's USD 8.5 billion acquisition of Skype, saying the EC should not have allowed the creation of a monopoly, Reuters reports. Cisco's attorney, Luis Ortiz Blanco, told judges that the takeover "marked a tipping point in the video communications market". The plaintiffs are arguing that the EC should have forced Microsoft to make concessions for the deal to be approved. Microsoft said in March that it one-third of the world's voice calls are on Skype and over 280 million people use the service for more than 100 minutes each month. EC lawyer Corneliu Hoedlmayr pointed to Skype rivals such as Google Talk and Viber as evidence that there is no competitive harm, adding that emerging technologies "could render Skype a relic". The court is due to give its verdict in the coming months.
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Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet to land in Japan on June 7
2013-05-29 14:46:00| CNET News.com
Equipped with Windows 8 Pro and Office 2013, the tablet will be come in two varieties -- 128GB and 256GB. [Read more]
Microsoft's Gates supports corporate tax scrutiny
2013-05-28 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Software giant previously called out for shifting intellectual property income to offshore subsidiaries.
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Windows' role at the core of Microsoft's Xbox One
2013-05-21 22:11:44| CNET News.com
Microsoft's Xbox One home-entertainment console, available later this year, has ties to Windows 8 and Windows Azure. [Read more]
The OEMpire strikes back -- Microsoft's best buddies go Google
2013-05-21 21:09:48| InfoWorld: Top News
With Windows PC sales falling like Steven Tyler at an Aerosmith concert, all the major PC manufacturers are unleashing a brace of innovative, competitive products based on Google's Android platform.
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