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Germany-based open source vendor SUSE has appointed technology and marketing veteran Pilar Santamaria as its new vice-president of AI.

Microsoft will face an anti-trust probe by the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, over claims that it is preventing rivals of its video-conferencing app Teams from competing.

COMPANY NEWS: As part of the revision of the EU common identity framework regulation, also known as eIDAS 2.0, the EU Member States will all implement a new common structure for electronic credentials based on digital identity wallets.

The joint venture of Vodafone Germany and cable television company Altice, OXG Galsfager, has begun to lay its fibre optic lines to deliver fibre to up to seven million homes over a six-year period, an investment which could reach €7 billion.

US Government lawyers have claimed Google pays out more than US$10 billion (A$15.6 billion) each year to ensure it is the default search engine on mobile phones and PCs, as the biggest anti-trust trial against the company kicked off in Washington on Tuesday.

The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, has opened a formal probe into Microsoft's bundling of its Teams application with its Office software.

The US Federal Trade Commission is still seeking to stop the deal between Microsoft and games producer Activision Blizzard, requesting an appeals court on Thursday to put a temporary stop to the agreement soon after a federal judge refused a similar plea.

The UK regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority, has again changed its stance on Microsoft's bid to acquire gaming giant Activision Blizzard following a decision by an American court against the US Federal Trade Commission's bid to block the deal.

Google may have to sell some part of its advertising technology business in order to satisfy the European Union, with the political bloc having found that this is the only remedy for the competition concerns swirling around the company.

COMPANY NEWS: As an ICT managed services provider company, the popular narrative is that the data centre is our single biggest emissions source, but an analysis of our operations challenged that notion, explains Tecala ESG Manager, Matthew Pedersen.

Telecom provider Orange Belgium and rival Telenet have signed acommercial 15-year wholesale agreement, which will provide access to the other party’s fixed networks and cover both current hybrid fibre-coaxial and fibre-to-the-home technologies in both areas.

The European Union is likely to begin an anti-trust investigation into Microsoft in the wake of a complaint made by messaging app Slack two years ago, accusing the Redmond firm of bundling applications in order to increase market share.

Microsoft has been accused of anti-competitive behaviour in its cloud computing licensing practices, with an European trade group making a complaint about this alleged behaviour to the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union.

The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, has begun an in-depth investigation into Microsoft's proposed acquisition of the gaming company Activision Blizzard.

Google has said, in a regulatory filing, that its Play Store is being targeted in an anti-trust investigation by the European Union, Reuters reports.

The European Commission has announced the second phase of its 6G flagship initiative, Hexa-X-II, which will expand the Hexa-X partner list to 44 organisations tasked with creating the pre-standardised platform and system view that will form the basis for 6G standardisation.

Google has gained very little from a bid to try and get a €4.34 billion (US$4.33 billion, A$6.42 billion) fine imposed by the EU withdrawn, with judges at a tribunal largely confirming the bloc's decision to impose the fine.

Enterprise applications provider Oracle has announced that all required antitrust approvals have been obtained for its proposed acquisition of Cerner, including European Commission clearance.

The European Union has taken aim at Apple for its refusal to open its mobile payment system to its rivals, accusing the company of restricting access to the technology used for mobile wallets.

New laws put in place by the European Union to limit the market power of big online platforms will give the political bloc the power to fine these companies up to 10% of their global turnover if they do not comply.