{"id":883549,"date":"2024-12-03T10:29:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T04:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=883549"},"modified":"2024-12-03T10:29:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T04:59:24","slug":"how-google-may-have-spent-hundreds-of-millions-on-groups-targeting-microsoft-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/12\/03\/how-google-may-have-spent-hundreds-of-millions-on-groups-targeting-microsoft-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"How Google may have spent hundreds of millions on groups \u2018targeting\u2019 Microsoft in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Cloud Platform offered hundreds of millions of euros in financial incentives to a European trade association to maintain its legal battle against Microsoft&#8217;s cloud licensing practices, according to The Register.<br \/>\nThe Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE), a trade body representing European cloud providers, was presented with a lucrative package by Amit Zavery, former Google Cloud Platform VP. The offer included \u20ac4 million in a &#8220;Members Innovation Fund&#8221;, an additional \u20ac10 million in membership resources, and a staggering \u20ac100 million in Google Distributed Cloud software credits spread over five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Cloud Platform offered hundreds of millions of euros in financial incentives to a European trade association to maintain its legal battle against Microsoft&#8217;s cloud licensing practices, according to The Register. The Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE), a trade body representing European cloud providers, was presented with a lucrative package by Amit Zavery, former Google Cloud Platform VP. The offer included \u20ac4 million in a &#8220;Members Innovation Fund&#8221;, an additional \u20ac10 million in membership resources, and a staggering \u20ac100 million in Google Distributed Cloud software credits spread over five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}