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'Omnipresent' Microsoft caught by Germany’s stricter antitrust regime, regulator says

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 30 Sep 2024 12:11
  • 30 Sep 2024 12:11
Microsoft could face heavier antitrust interventions against its software and tech offerings in Germany, with the national competition authority today underlining its market clout in a number of digital markets, from business software to social networking to cloud services and AI. 
Today the Bundeskartellamt said Microsoft’s “omnipresent” and “indispensable” digital

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Nicholas Hirst

Chief Correspondent


Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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