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BRUSSELS, Belgium – In a major step toward new penalties against Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), Europe’s antitrust regulators voted unanimously Monday in favor of fining the world’s largest software company for flouting a 2004 ruling, two people close to the case said. The regulators backed European Union plans to penalize the …

SAN FRANCISCO – With Barry Bonds still firmly in the sights of a federal steroid investigation, prosecutors will impanel a new grand jury to take up where an outgoing one left off Thursday and consider perjury and tax-evasion charges against the star slugger. “We are not finished,” U.S. Attorney Kevin …

SAN FRANCISCO – In March 1990, when few people had even heard of the Internet, U.S. Secret Service agents raided the Texas offices of a small board-game maker, seizing computer equipment and reading customers’ e-mail stored on one machine. A group of online pioneers already worried about how the nation’s …