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Microsoft has upped the ante in its bitter rivalry with Google by filing its first formal complaint to regulators, claiming the search engine giant is restricting competition.

The Tyee: "Oligopoly friendly policies have taken Canada to the bad place we're at now."

Consumerist points us to the rather stunning story of how pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson tried to avoid doing an actual recall on defective Motrin it discovered by, instead, hiring people to go around the country buying up the pills.

For those who already bought them? Too bad.

Microsoft Corp made its most vehement and public attack on Google Inc on Friday, calling its internet rival's actions potentially anti-competitive, and urging victims to file complaints to regulators.

Internetnews: "European regulators have given Oracle the tentative green light in its long-delayed merger with Sun Microsystems now that Oracle has assuaged concerns about the stewardship of the open source MySQL database."

Members of AAI suggest regulators reshape the alliance between the two Internet companies to foster its benefits to consumers, while also avoiding its anticompetitive risks.