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Interview: Microsoft’s president on turbulent times for the company, country, and world
Brad Smith, like many in tech and the broader world, thought 2022 might bring a bit of a break. Halfway…
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Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft economist joins DOJ antitrust team; AWS director lands at StackOverflow
— Stanford professor Susan Athey, a former consulting chief economist at Microsoft, will join the U.S. Department of Justice as…
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How Amazon’s tech and logistics prowess may disrupt healthcare — and spark concern
As Amazon makes bigger moves into healthcare and turns its efficiency machine on medicine, some experts say the industry could…
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Science & Technology
NASA calls an end to Mars InSight lander mission, with Aerojet getting in on tributes
Four years after engineers cheered the landing of the robotic InSight spacecraft on Mars, NASA today declared an end to…
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Microsoft disputes FTC’s portrayal of its Bethesda game exclusives in legal fight over Activision deal
Microsoft is pushing back against the Federal Trade Commission’s implication that it didn’t live up to its commitments to the…
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FTC is suing Microsoft to block $69 billion Activision deal
The Federal Trade Commission is suing Microsoft over its $69 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard, putting what would be…
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EU approves Microsoft’s $19.7B Nuance deal, clearing last major hurdle for big acquisition
The European Fee gave unconditional approval to Microsoft’s pending acquisition of speech expertise firm Nuance Communications for $19.7 billion in…
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Microsoft to drop commercial marketplace fees to 3% (from 20%) in latest dig at platform rivals
Microsoft is escalating its marketing campaign in opposition to the standard enterprise mannequin of on-line marketplaces, lowering the fees it…
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DOJ: Microsoft antitrust deal worked, just look at the company now
As we noted a couple weeks ago, Microsoft’s landmark U.S. antitrust settlement expires immediately. A lot has modified in the…
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New Stanford Law building is amazing, and it comes courtesy of an ex-Microsoftie
Stanford College has minted loads of Silicon Valley high-tech millionaires and billionaires over time. However Microsoft cash helped pay for…
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