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• With EU challenging Google, this time 'stakes are high'

  With the European Commission leveling antitrust charges against Google, the company should be bracing itself for a big and potentially costly fight over its dominant search business.

• Is EU's 'right to be forgotten' really the 'right to edit the truth'?

  With Europe's top court ordering Google to allow people to basically edit their online personal histories, some wonder what this will mean for finding the truth online.

• Analysts debate effect of Facebook's policy changes on users

  Despite calls for Facebook to stop planned changes to the way it makes privacy policy, analysts are divided over how bad the changes would be for users.

• Europe looks to ARM chips for supercomputing edge

  The European Union is moving to build a high-performance computing industry to challenge U.S. dominance, but it doesn't want to play catch-up. It wants to leapfrog, and it is seeing whether ARM Holdings technology can give it that edge.

• FAQ: Microsoft's browser 'ballot screen,' the EU and you

  Microsoft's surprise offer last week to European Union (EU) antitrust regulators that it will give Windows users a chance to download rivals' browsers stunned some, who likened it to waving the white flag.