PARIS (Reuters) – France’s antitrust agency is investigating Microsoft over concerns that it is degrading the quality of results when smaller rivals pay to use Bing technology in their own search-engine products, Bloomberg reported on Monday.
The competition authority declined to comment, citing a policy of not publicly speaking about investigations that were underway. A Microsoft spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The investigation could lead to formal charges and a fine against the U.S. tech giant.
(Reporting by Makini Brice in Paris and Foo Yun Chee in Brussels; Editing by Tomasz Janowski)
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