Google offers smaller cloud firms €470 million to derail Microsoft antitrust settlement

Offer rebuffed and Microsoft off the hook for one antitrust action – for now

Penny Horwood
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Google offers smaller cloud firms €470 million to derail Microsoft antitrust settlement

Google offered a group of European Union-based cloud firms a package worth about €470 millionin a failed attempt to persuade them not to settle their antitrust action against Microsoft.

Bloomberg has reported that Google made the failed bid, days before the deal was annouced.  Cloud Infrastructure Services Provers in Europe (CISPE) announced last week that it had reached an agr...

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