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Microsoft is cutting 10,000 workers, almost 5% of its workforce, joining other tech companies that have scaled back their pandemic-era expansions.
Read More »Job cuts in tech sector spread, Microsoft lays off 10,000
Video game workers in Md. form Microsoft’s first US labor union
A group of video game testers based in Maryland is forming Microsoft's first labor union in the U.S.
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Read More »Microsoft buys game maker Activision Blizzard for about $70B
Microsoft is paying nearly $70 billion for Activision Blizzard as it seeks an edge in the fiercely competitive businesses of mobile gaming and virtual-reality technology.
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Read More »Microsoft: Russian-backed hackers targeting cloud services
Microsoft says the same Russia-backed hackers responsible for the 2020 SolarWinds breach continue to attack the global technology supply chain.
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Read More »Pentagon cancels disputed JEDI cloud contract with Microsoft
The Pentagon said Tuesday it canceled a disputed cloud-computing contract with Microsoft that could eventually have been worth $10 billion.
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Read More »Johns Hopkins startups get boost from Microsoft pilot program
Startups with Johns Hopkins University’s FastForward program for entrepreneurs have received funding, software licenses, support and more from Microsoft as part of a unique pilot program with the technology giant. The pilot program includes five Johns Hopkins startups receiving funding ...
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Read More »Amazon lawsuit against Pentagon seen as an uphill fight
Amazon.com will likely argue that meddling by President Donald Trump cost the company a cloud-computing contract worth as much as $10 billion as it seeks to overturn a Pentagon decision to award the work to arch-rival Microsoft. Yet Amazon faces ...
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Read More »Microsoft to scale back on paying hourly for legal services
As startups and other small companies look for creative ways to tackle the large bills for legal services, at least one major corporation is going down that same path.
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Read More »Damascus man pleads guilty in $100M software piracy case
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Six people pleaded guilty to charges related to more than $100 million in stolen software such as Windows XP that authorities said was one of the largest such piracy schemes prosecuted by the U.S. government. Tammy ...
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Read More »Hopkins, Microsoft to develop app for ICU management
Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine have developed a tablet app to track the needs of patients in intensive care units. Now, they’ll be building on that work through a partnership with Microsoft. The computing giant will work with the Johns ...
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