Several years of contentious litigation over Microsoft's business practices in Europe have finally yielded a compromise between the two sides.
November 13th will be the new date for the European Union Competition Commission to give its decision on Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, based on the Commission's perception of competition issues.
The proposed DoubleClick purchase has put Google back on its heels as people assail the blockbuster deal on several fronts.
Peter Fleischer, Google's top global privacy counsel, said data retention issues are of no concern to a European privacy watchdog group.
When the European Union confronted Google over its data retention policies, some people - including Google’s own global privacy counsel - wondered why Yahoo, Microsoft, and a number of other companies were left alone. Now it appears that the EU is going to take a look at them, after all.
The European Commission has daily fines of $4 million in store for Microsoft, who in turn have complained that the Commission thinks "patented innovation must be made available for free
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