Microsoft to Yahoo! Japan's Fair Trade Commission as "to hinder competition" Appeal against JAPAN and Google's partnership

It was announced the other dayYahoo! Business tie-up with JAPAN and Google, It was revealed that Microsoft intends to file an objection to the Fair Trade Commission.

According to Microsoft, the partnership between the two companies will hinder competition.

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MS, to appeal to the FTC Negligence with Google Yahoo collaboration - SankeiBiz (Sankei Biz)

Microsoft: To submit evidence of inhibition of competition, Yahoo! Google alliance (Update - Bloomberg.co.jp

According to reports by Sankei Shimbun and Bloomberg, Microsoft said "about Yahoo! JAPAN", the largest portal site in Japan and the world's largest search in search, Google announced its search and advertisement partnership, "to impede competition It is said that "evidence" will be submitted to the Japan Fair Trade Commission.

Although it is said that concrete contents, the timing of submission, document submission or verbal talk etc. are undecided,Microsoft introduced Yahoo! in the United States in 2009. We are affiliated with Yahoo! in the world including the United States and the United States The search service will be unified into Microsoft's search engine "Bing" for 10 yearsIt seems that there is speculation that it wants to stop the alliance of both companies.

Incidentally,Yahoo! When announcing a partnership with Google, JAPAN is saying "We are consulting with the Japan Fair Trade Commission in advance and confirming that there is no problem"There seems to be no problem at the moment, but depending on the "evidence" submitted by Microsoft, there is a possibility that the flow may change.