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New York AG accuses Intel of kickbacks
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo hit Intel Corp. with an antitrust lawsuit Wednesday, claiming the company used "illegal threats and collusion" to dominate the market for computer microprocessors. He asserted the world's biggest computer chip maker paid billions of dollars in kickbacks to computer manufacturers and retaliated against those that did too much business with Intel's competitors, namely Advanced Micro Devices Inc. An Intel spokesman, Chuck Mulloy, denied the charges and said the company's sales practices were legitimate. "We never threatened anyone," he said.
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Microsoft boots 800 more jobsMicrosoft Corp. says it is cutting 800 more jobs. That's in addition to the 5,000 layoffs it announced in January. Lou Gellos, a Microsoft spokesman, would not say Wednesday what specific product groups or job types are affected. He also said that Microsoft had already let nearly all of the 5,000 go, in what was the company's first-ever widespread layoffs. The software maker, based in Redmond, Wash., employed about 91,000 people as of the end of September.
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