Microsoft and Google Make Peace After Decade of Fighting

  • U.S. tech giants reach global agreement to withdraw complaints
  • Deal comes as Google fights two sets of EU antitrust charges
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Peace broke out between Microsoft Corp. and Google just two days after European Union antitrust watchdogs sent the search-engine company another statement of objections partly triggered by Microsoft-backed lobbying.

Microsoft and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, two arch rivals in the U.S. technology world for more than a decade, reached a global agreement that they will stop fighting.