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U.S., European Commission Clear Microsoft-Yahoo! Agreement
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Posted by Brad Smith
Microsoft Senior Vice President and General Counsel
and Michael Callahan
Yahoo! Executive Vice President and General Counsel
As was broadly reported this morning, both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission have completed their reviews of the Microsoft-Yahoo! search agreement and cleared the transaction without restrictions.
We appreciate the thorough reviews conducted by the DOJ and the Commission and we welcome the thoughtful decisions reached by each agency. We also commend the collaborative efforts the regulators undertook to understand the search advertising market. Likewise, we are grateful for the efforts of regulators in Australia, Brazil and Canada who previously cleared the agreement, as well as those regulators we continue to work with in Korea, Taiwan and Japan.
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Dublin Data Centre Energizes Microsoft’s Ties to Europe
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Posted by John Vassallo
Vice President, EU Affairs
I am very excited about an event today that marks an important milestone for Microsoft in Europe: The opening of our advanced new data centre in Dublin. As Microsoft’s first large scale data centre outside the United States, this facility is a vibrant sign of our commitment to provide the next-generation computing infrastructure that will power an incredible array of software services ‘in the cloud’ in Europe, for Europeans.
I am convinced that our European customers will soon find many novel ways to leverage the speed, flexibility and bandwidth provided by the Dublin data centre and the cloud computing services it supports to transform their businesses. Europe will benefit from the new wave of innovation and new business efficiencies this will bring about.
The data centre will also enable governments to reduce IT costs while improving citizen access to government services, which in turn will make the process of governance more transparent, efficient and inclusive.
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E-skills and Economic Recovery in Europe
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Posted by Sylvie Laffarge
Director Community Affairs, Europe
If anyone was wondering how badly the global recession is affecting Europe, recent jobs data provide a chilling answer.
More than 20 million Europeans were out of work in March, up 25 percent from the same period a year ago, and the tally could exceed 22 million by the end of the year. In Spain, a stunning 17.4 percent of workers were unemployed in March.
As in other parts of the world, European governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are now anxiously looking for ways to provide jobs and make European workers more employable. As we’ve demonstrated with our support for thousands of community technology skills training programs around the world, Microsoft believes providing people with greater digital skills is an important part of the solution.
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