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February 7, 2019 at 5:08 pm

Microsoft backs Washington state’s facial recognition bill as Amazon mulls support

Microsoft is lobbying on behalf of the bill, sponsored by state Sen. Reuven Carlyle, while Amazon has asked for some clarifications and changes.

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February 5, 2019 at 4:01 pm

Biggest public company? Microsoft. Wait, Apple again. Amazon? No, back to Microsoft.

The title of largest company by market value has changed hands seven times since late last year, thanks to Apple’s sliding stock price and the...

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February 5, 2019 at 8:24 am

Cloud-computing giants keep growing despite slowdown fears

Earnings reports from Amazon, Microsoft and Google showed that the companies are grabbing a larger share of business technology spending, defying warnings from some of...

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February 3, 2019 at 9:08 pm

Super Bowl ad winners: Bud Light, Amazon, Microsoft WATCH

Among the crowd-pleasing ads aired during Super Bowl LIII was Microsoft's ad showing a child talking excitedly about the fun he had with an Xbox...

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January 31, 2019 at 2:47 pm

Ex-Microsoft director reaches plea deal in alleged theft of Super Bowl tickets, embezzlement

A former Microsoft director has pleaded guilty to a single count in a federal case that alleges he bilked the company out of nearly $1...

January 30, 2019 at 2:12 pm

Microsoft sales meet estimates, but cloud, PC concerns rise

Azure revenue grew 76 percent, but that’s slower than the near-doubling that the segment posted each quarter in 2017 and early 2018. At the same...

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FILE – This Jan. 26, 2016 file photo shows a “For Sale” sign hanging in front of an existing home in Atlanta. Short of savings and burdened by debt, America’s millennials are struggling to afford their first homes in the face of sharply higher prices in many of the most desirable cities. Surveys show that most Americans under 35 lack adequate savings for down payments. The result is that many will likely be forced to delay home ownership and to absorb significant debt loads if they do eventually buy. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

January 27, 2019 at 4:59 pm

Monday Memo: Seattle-area home prices; earnings reports from Boeing, Microsoft, Amazon; Fed rate decision

A look at the business week ahead

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January 24, 2019 at 10:49 am

Microsoft’s Bing accessible again in China after hours of outages

People familiar with the matter said the search engine had been blocked in China due to an accidental technical error, though initial reports had said...

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January 24, 2019 at 2:45 am

Microsoft’s Bing blocked in China, prompting grumbling

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese internet users lost access to Microsoft's Bing search engine for two days, setting off grumbling about the ruling Communist Party's increasingly...

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January 23, 2019 at 7:56 pm

China appears to block Microsoft’s Bing, despite company’s own censorship

SHANGHAI — Under China’s president, Xi Jinping, the last vestiges of the global internet have slowly disappeared from an online world that had already shut...

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