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330 Google Offered Millions To Ally Itself With Trade Body Fighting Microsoft

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msmash @ Slashdot · 11/30/2024 01:02 EDT

Google Offered Millions To Ally Itself With Trade Body Fighting Microsoft

An anonymous reader shares a report: Google Cloud dangled hundreds of million of euros worth of financial incentives to ally itself with an association of European cloud providers that had lodged a complaint against Microsoft, according to confidential documents seen by The Register.

Amit Zavery, the former Vice President of Google Cloud Platform, presented to a selection of members of the Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) trade body, then to the board and finally to the entire orga

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