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Microsoft, Google trade barbs amid congressional hearing on news industry – Source CNET Tech

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Microsoft President Brad Smith tied Google’s success to the news industry’s destruction.


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Microsoft’s President Brad Smith tied Google’s success as home to two of the most popular websites on the planet, and biggest beneficiary of advertising dollars on the web to the ongoing destruction of local and national news organizations in the US. In testimony to the US House Committee on the Judiciary’s antitrust subcommittee Friday, he said Microsoft supported a proposed law that would allow newspapers to collectively bargain with tech companies over news…

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