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Adam Selipsky, chief executive officer of Tableau Software Inc., speaks during the opening keynote of the 2019 DreamForce conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019. Salesforce.com Inc.’s annual software conference, where it introduces new products and discusses its commitment to social causes, was interrupted for the second year in a row by protests against the company’s work with the U.S. government. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

November 17, 2021 at 4:17 pm

Amazon Cloud CEO Tweaks Strategy Amid Microsoft, Google Rivalry

Amazon Web Services' new leader plans to change the cloud division's strategy. Adam Selipsky, who got the top job at AWS in March, wants to...

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An attendee wearing a protective face mask tries out a Microsoft Corp. HoloLens 2 headset on the opening day of the MWC Barcelona at the Fira de Barcelona venue in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday, June 28, 2021. MWC Barcelona, which in 2019 attracted 109,000 attendees from 198 countries, was one of the first major European conference casualties due to the pandemic when it was axed in February last year. 775673495

November 2, 2021 at 3:58 pm

Microsoft’s metaverse is coming, and it will have PowerPoint WATCH

Microsoft is coming to the metaverse. And it's bringing PowerPoint and Teams with it. CEO Satya Nadella contends immersive tech will become increasingly common at...

Microsoft President Brad Smith speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021 in Washington. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)

June 14, 2021 at 2:26 pm

Microsoft’s Smith says secret subpoenas hurt U.S. tech companies

Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith criticized secret data subpoenas sent by the government to cloud providers, saying gag orders on requests for...

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Plastic bottles and other garbage floats in the Potpecko lake near Priboj, in southwest Serbia on Jan. 22, 2021. A United Nations report released on Feb. 18, 2021 says humans are making Earth a broken and increasingly unlivable planet through climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. So the world must make dramatic changes to society, economics and daily life. NY772

February 22, 2021 at 5:30 pm

Bill Gates wants to team up more with Jeff Bezos to combat climate crisis

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he is hoping to collaborate with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to back costly early-stage green alternatives to current technologies. Gates...

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Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft, during a panel session on day two of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2020. (Bloomberg photo by Jason Alden)

February 10, 2021 at 4:57 pm

Microsoft CEO says Big Tech needs clearer laws on online speech

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said social-media services need clearer laws and rules to govern whether controversial accounts have a place on their services, rather than...

December 17, 2020 at 11:00 pm

Microsoft says its systems were exposed to SolarWinds hack

Microsoft said its systems were exposed to the malware used in the Russia-linked hack that targeted U.S. states and government agencies.

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August 29, 2019 at 12:47 pm

Uber CEO says it ‘sure looked like’ Levandowski took Google’s files

Uber Technologies Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi said Thursday that "it sure looked like" former executive Anthony Levandowski took information on self-driving cars from his...

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January 28, 2014 at 7:15 am

VC legend Tom Perkins apologizes for comparing attack on rich to holocaust

Venture capital pioneer Tom Perkins apologized for comparing today’s treatment of wealthy Americans to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, though he said he...

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