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Governments around the world are taking major steps to clamp down on the anti-competitive practices of large technology companies.

SoftBank shares surged as much as 10% on news of the deal and renewed talks for the company going private.

PARIS (June 28): Google’s record-breaking 2.4 billion-euro ($3.8 billion) European Union fine could end up being just a fraction of the costs from the EU’s demand that it stop skewing search results to favor its own shopping site.