EU Commission

Microsoft tried to divert attention of the European Commission from his browser market monopolization practices to the threat of Google’s possible invasion of the Internet search industry, reports the Register. In it latest filing to the EU regulator the company stated that in case it will be forced to carry rival browsers in Windows, Google, which is a default searcher in Opera, Mozilla Firefox and, of course, Chrome, will without any obstacles even more dominate the search market.

The European Commission completed its report on the investigation into the U.S. measures affecting foreign providers of online gambling services. The report released last week resumes the probe that was launched after the Remote Gambling Association filed a complaint against the U.S. The work concludes that US laws deny access and discriminate against foreign suppliers of gambling and betting services inconsistently with US WTO obligations.