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faces wide-ranging U.S. antitrust probe

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Corp. signage in New York, US, on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. 

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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened a broad antitrust investigation into

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, including of its software licensing and cloud computing businesses, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

The probe was approved by FTC Chair Lina Khan ahead of her likely departure in January. The election of Donald Trump as U.S. president, and the expectation he will appoint a fellow *********** with a softer approach toward business, leaves the outcome of the investigation up in the air.

The FTC is examining allegations the software giant is potentially abusing its market power in productivity software by imposing punitive licensing terms to prevent customers from moving their data from its Azure cloud service to other competitive platforms, sources confirmed earlier this month.

The FTC is also looking at practices related to cybersecurity and artificial intelligence products, the source said on Wednesday.

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declined to comment on Wednesday.

The FTC fielded complaints about

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last year as it examined the cloud computing market.

NetChoice, a lobbying group that represents online companies including

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and
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, which compete with
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in cloud computing, criticized
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’s licensing policies, and its integration of AI tools into its Office and
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.

“Given that

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is the world’s largest software company, dominating in productivity and operating systems software, the scale and consequences of its licensing decisions are extraordinary,” the group said.The FTC has demanded a broad range of detailed information from
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, Bloomberg reported earlier on Wednesday.

Until now,

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has been somewhat of an exception to U.S. antitrust regulators’ recent campaign against allegedly anticompetitive practices at Big Tech companies.

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owner Meta Platforms, Apple, and 
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 Inc. have all been accused by the U.S. of unlawfully maintaining monopolies.

Alphabet’s

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is facing two lawsuits, including one where a judge found it unlawfully thwarted competition among online search engines.

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CEO Satya Nadella testified at
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’s trial, saying the search giant was using exclusive deals with publishers to lock up content used to train artificial intelligence.

It is unclear whether Trump will ease up on Big Tech, whose first administration launched several Big Tech probes. JD Vance, the incoming vice president, has expressed concern about the power the companies wield over public discourse.

Still,

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has benefited from Trump policies in the past.

In 2019, the Pentagon awarded it a $10 billion cloud computing contract that

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had widely been expected to win.
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later alleged that Trump exerted improper pressure on military officials to steer the contract away from its
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Web Services unit.



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