Advocate General Athanasios Rantos told Europe’s top court on February 26, 2026 that the European Commission’s sweeping document demands in its probes of Facebook are lawful, proportionate and properly safeguarded—an opinion that, if adopted by the Court of Justice, will hand regulators a major...
Japan’s competition enforcers have executed an on-site inspection of Microsoft’s Japanese offices after local media and international reporting said the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) is investigating whether Microsoft improperly limited customers’ ability to run Microsoft software on rival...
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