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Cisco Asks EU Court to Overturn Microsoft-Skype Approval
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Cisco Systems Inc., the biggest maker of networking equipment, asked a European Union court to overturn antitrust approval for Microsoft Corp.’s $8.5 billion takeover of Skype Technologies SA.
The European Commission should have required Microsoft to use open standards for video communications to allow rival products to work smoothly with Skype before it authorized the deal, Marthin De Beer, a senior vice-president at San Jose, California-based Cisco, said in a blog post.