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The Competition Commission of India, the country's anti-trust watchdog, has fined Google 135.86 crore rupees (about US$21.1 million) for "abusing its dominant position in online general Web search and Web search advertising services in India".

Search behemoth Google has bowed to the demands of the European Union that it make changes to ensure that its search engine dominance does not give illegal advantage to its own comparison shopping service.

Cyber security vendor Kaspersky Lab has dropped its anti-trust actions against Microsoft after the latter agreed to make changes to address the concerns the former had raised in its plaints to Russian, German and European Commission authorities.

A group of publishers, including Axel Springer and Getty Images, has lodged a complaint with the European Union against Google, accusing it of imposing restrictions on manufacturers of Android devices and wireless service providers.

Apple has filed another lawsuit against Qualcomm, this time in the UK, upping the legal stoush between the two companies over patent royalties and deals on processors.

Opponents of the US$85.4 billion AT&T acquisition of Time Warner from both ends of the political spectrum in the US have publicly called for the deal to be quashed.

Google has been granted a fortnight's extension to respond to charges by the European Union that its conduct relating to Android smartphones and tablets has breached anti-trust rules.

Google's offices in Madrid have been raided by authorities as part of an ongoing tax probe, according to media reports.

Microsoft is now 40 years old but its habits have not changed much. Especially when it comes to new ideas. Or, one should perhaps say its implementation of what are new ideas for itself, but old ones to others.

After years of gunning for Microsoft, the European Commission has launched proceedings against Google to investigate whether its conduct relating to Android and smartphones and tablets services has breached EU antitrust rules.

The US Federal Trade Commission "accidentally" gave a 2012 US anti-trust report on Google to The Wall Street Journal. The content was not good and concluded that Google's "conduct has resulted — and will result — in real harm to consumers and to innovation in the online search and advertising markets".

China's corporate regulator visited four of Microsoft's offices in the country on Monday, the company confirmed today.

Microsoft faces another fine from the European Commission, this time over its failure to provide a browser choice screen in Windows 7 SP 1.

Have they no shame? Microsoft, long the target of investigations into its shady, monopolistic and unethical business practices, has accused Google of much the same.

Two U.S. government agencies are reportedly considering an inquiry into antitrust issues raised by Apple's recent decision to restrict the tools iPhone and iPad developers can use.