All Things Tech 1 Antitrust, Competition Law, Consumer Protection 1 Arts, Books, Entertainment, Music 1 Big Data, Cybersecurity, the Digital Economy, and Privacy 1 Business, Economics, Management, Leadership 2 Companies, Corporate Governance, & Regulation 2 Global 2 Health and Nutrition 2 Odds & Ends 3 People of Interest 3 Social Media 3 All Things Tech Tech giants are the new nation states, and they're starting to act like it. Within three hours, Microsoft threw itself into the middle of a ground war in Europe — from 5,500 miles away. The threat centre, north of Seattle, had been on high alert, and it quickly picked apart the malware, named it 'FoxBlade' and notified Ukraine's top cyberdefense authority. Within three hours, Microsoft's virus detection systems had been updated to block the code, which erases — 'wipes' — data on computers in a network Google employees say its return-to-