TNB Tech Minute: Microsoft, AWS Could Face U.K. Probe into Cloud Services Market
WSJ Tech News Briefing
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🗓️ 28 January 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Americans love using their credit cards, the most secure and hassle-free way to pay. |
| 0:04.0 | But DC politicians want to change that with the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill. |
| 0:08.0 | This bill lets corporate megastores pick how your credit card is processed, |
| 0:13.0 | allowing them to use untested payment networks that jeopardize your data security and rewards. |
| 0:18.0 | Corporate megastores will make more money and you pay the price. |
| 0:22.1 | Tell Congress to guard your card because Americans lose when politicians choose. Learn more at |
| 0:28.1 | guard your card.com. Here's your TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, January 28th. I'm Julie Chang for |
| 0:36.4 | the Wall Street Journal. Microsoft and Amazon |
| 0:39.4 | Web Services could face a probe by UK regulators after an independent inquiry found that each |
| 0:45.0 | company has a 40% share of the cloud services market. The UK Competition and Markets Authority |
| 0:51.3 | said today that the inquiry provisionally found that the lack of |
| 0:54.5 | competition could result in higher costs, less choice, less innovation, and lower quality |
| 0:59.7 | of service. Microsoft's corporate VP and Deputy Council for Competition Law said the CMA's report |
| 1:05.4 | should, quote, be focused on paving the way for UK's AI-powered future, not fixating on legacy products launched |
| 1:12.3 | in the last century. The inquiry plans to make a final decision by early August. Google is |
| 1:18.2 | fighting a roughly $4.5 billion antitrust fine from the European Commission over its Android |
| 1:23.7 | operating system. The 2018 fine is among the largest the European Commission has ever |
| 1:28.9 | issued for antitrust abuses. It alleged Google unfairly used its dominance to strong-armed |
| 1:34.5 | device manufacturers and network operators into making sure that traffic on Android devices |
| 1:39.8 | goes to Google's own search engine. Lawyers acting for Google said the company is being punished for its own success and that |
| 1:46.8 | the commission made mistakes in its ruling. |
| 1:49.8 | And tech stocks rebounded today after China's low-cost AI player Deepseek triggered a sell-off |
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