Germany’s competition regulator, the Bundeskartellamt, said it’s launching an investigation into Microsoft MSFT on whether it is of paramount significance for competition across markets. “Such a finding would allow us to take action at an early stage and prohibit possible anti-competitive practices,” said the president of the regulator in a statement. It’s already determined that Alphabet GOOGL and Meta Platforms META are of paramount significance, while Amazon AMZN is appealing a similar finding. It said an assessment on Apple AAPLis “well advanced.”
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