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Google is investigated under 9 cases brought against it with the EU regulators, according to the sources with the knowledge of the matter.

So far the European Commission confirmed 4 cases against Google. The new complaints will extend EU regulator’s current investigation.

"The Commission has nine formal complaints now. The new complaints come from small companies," said one of the sources who declined to provide details because of the sensitivity of the matter.

The group of over 100 Chinese consumers filed an official complaint against Hewlett-Packard over vicious laptops.

As a lawyer at Yingke Law Firm in Beijing Jiang Suhua reported the complaint focused on video cards which overheated and caused the laptop to malfunction.

He also said that about 170 Chinese sent the complaint on Friday to the country's quality control watchdog agency, General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has filed a civil contempt complaint against an online check-writing service, saying the company continues to allow customers to create and e-mail checks without verification of their identities.

 Solid Oak Software has hit media giant CBS with a demand for $1.2m, after the media giant's tech subsidiary posted downloads of the Chinese government's Green Dam Youth Escort software.

Green Dam was the centrepiece of Beijing's abortive effort to force PC manufacturers to preload filtering software that would protect young Chinese from porn - and vile Western ideas such as democracy.