Just to be crystal clear: The European Union isn;t making noise about holding up or investigating Microsoft and Yahoo;s proposed search partnership (a minimum of not yet).Reuters noted on September 15 the European Union antitrust regulators are in “informal talks” with Microsoft and Yahoo regarding their lookup deal, via which most of Yahoo;s lookup would be powered by Microsoft Bing. I;ve seen a few folks jumping to conclusions about what this means — which isn;t too surprising, given the European Commission;s proclivity toward coming down hard on Microsoft around anything that it deems stifling competition.The U.S. Department of Justice, for its part,
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