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General Motors Co said on Monday it had hired Chris Liddell, the chief financial officer of Microsoft Corp , as its new finance chief, filling a key position with the automaker's highest-profile hire since its July bankruptcy.

Fed sees openings; FTC Charges Intel; Microsoft's browser pledge

The Federal Trade Commission announced Wednesday that it has sued Intel Corp., the world's largest chip maker, alleging it has “used its dominant market position for a decade to stifle competition and strengthen its monopoly.”

Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. had a slight increase in their shares of the U.S. online-search market in November, according to market research firm comScore Inc.

European Union regulators accepted Microsoft Corp's pledge to give European consumers better access to rival Internet browsers in Windows, ending a long antitrust dispute with the U.S. software maker.

The European Commission announced Wednesday that it has dropped long-standing antitrust charges against Microsoft Corp. after the company agreed to offer European users a selection browsers via its operating system.

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EU antitrust regulators accepted on Wednesday Microsoft's offer to allow users in Europe choose rival Internet browsers, ending a decade-long dispute and averting a possible fine for the company.

Microsoft said it was temporarily suspending its MSN China microblogging site, Juku, as it investigates a complaint of plagiarism from a start-up, Plurk.

Microsoft said it was temporarily suspending its MSN China microblogging site, Juku, as it investigates a complaint of plagiarism from a start-up, Plurk.

Microsoft Windows 7 sales are expected to rise in 2010, along with the demand for new hardware like PCs and servers, according to a Goldman Sach's IT spending survey forecast.

Microsoft and SAP will voice their concerns at a European Union hearing on Friday over Oracle's plan to buy Sun Microsystems, adding to regulators' skepticism over the deal.

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A new email client unveiled by Mozilla this week contains code from an unusual source -- the French military, which decided the open source product was more secure than Microsoft's rival Outlook.

Google's share of the U.S. search market grew 1.4 percent in November, with competitors like Yahoo and Microsoft Bing, left trailing behind.

Microsoft Corp and SAP will attend an EU hearing on Oracle Corp's plan to buy Sun Microsystems Inc that could help EU regulators decide whether to clear or block the deal, two people close to the matter said on Tuesday.

The European Union and Microsoft are likely to end a decade-long dispute next week when EU antitrust regulators will accept the U.S. software company's amended offer on allowing consumer choice on Internet browsers, sources said.

EU antitrust regulators are set to accept next week an amended offer by Microsoft that would allow PC users in Europe to choose other web browsers, two people familiar with the situation said on Monday.

Comcast Corp struck a deal to buy a majority stake in NBC Universal from General Electric Co, creating a media superpower that would control not just how television shows and movies are made, but how they are delivered to the home.

Just a day after Bing rolled out an array of changes and updates including its new Bing Maps, Microsoft had to apologize after its search engine went offline on Thursday evening. Bing users were unable to access the site between 6:30pm to 7:00pm PST. At first, the site was simply unresponsive or returned partial search results. The page then turned into an error page explaining that the site was unavailable.

Google Inc prides itself on setting trends and its $750 million buy of mobile advertising group AdMob may be no exception.