Microsoft faces wide-ranging US antitrust probe

(Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened a broad antitrust investigation into Microsoft, 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 before her likely departure in January, following the presidential election victory of Donald…

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    Exclusive-Nuclear attack unlikely despite Putin’s warnings, US intelligence says

    By Erin Banco and Phil Stewart NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. decision to allow Ukraine to fire American weapons deeper into Russia has not increased the risk of a nuclear attack, which is unlikely, despite Russian President Vladimir Putin’s increasingly bellicose statements, five sources familiar with U.S. intelligence told Reuters.  But Russia is likely…

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    Netflix defeats shareholder lawsuit over growth forecasts

    By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Netflix won the dismissal on Tuesday of a shareholder lawsuit accusing the streaming company of downplaying the impact on subscriber growth of account sharing, where paying members share user names and passwords with nonpaying members in other households. The proposed class action led by a Texas-based trustee began after Netflix…

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      IRS funding cut would increase US deficit, slow service

      WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Cuts in funding for the Internal Revenue Service, long eyed by Republicans in Congress, would increase the federal deficit by $140 billion over a decade, slow service and reduce complex audits of big companies, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said on Tuesday. Adeyemo told reporters that the IRS faced a $20 billion…

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