tangor - 2:48 am on Jul 31, 2010 (gmt 0)

Microsoft will try to stop Yahoo! from hooking up with Google in Japan. Bing daddy Microsoft told The Reg it will object to Yahoo! Japan's alliance with Google, announced this week, in a presentation to Japan's Fair Trade Commission. A Microsoft spokesperson said: "We plan to present evidence to the Japanese FTC explaining why we believe that this deal is substantially more harmful to competition than Google’s deal with Yahoo in 2008 that the DOJ found to be illegal."

[theregister.co.uk...]