National Microsoft Consults With Trump About Ongoing Talks To Buy TikTok From Chinese Firm In its first public acknowledgement of a deal that could be worth in the billions of dollars, Microsoft said it is continuing talks with TikTok about a potential takeover of the hugely popular app. Bobby Allyn
National Microsoft In Talks To Buy Teen Fav TikTok As Trump Ramps Up Pressure The talks comes just as the Trump administration considers taking action against TikTok, including banning the app which is owned ByteDance, a Chinese company. Bobby Allyn
Health Stay Home: Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft Tell Seattle Workers U.S. companies are trying to limit disruption from the coronavirus outbreak by curtailing travel and telling some employees to work from home. Several major tech firms are among the latest to act. Shannon Bond
Environment Microsoft Pledges To Remove From The Atmosphere All The Carbon It's Ever Emitted The tech giant, which says it has been "carbon neutral" for years, is now vowing to go "carbon negative" — by cutting emissions, planting trees and investing in new carbon removal technology. Camila Domonoske
National Amazon Appeals Pentagon's Choice Of Microsoft For $10 Billion Cloud Contract Amazon cited "unmistakable bias" as it prepares to challenge its loss in federal court. This starts a new chapter in the contentious battle over the biggest U.S. cloud-computing contract, called JEDI. Alina Selyukh
Technology Pentagon Awards $10 Billion Contract To Microsoft Over Front-Runner Amazon "We're surprised about this conclusion. AWS is the clear leader in cloud computing," an Amazon Web Services spokesperson told NPR. The contract is for 10 years. Meg Anderson
Technology Microsoft Says Iranians Tried To Hack U.S. Presidential Campaign Microsoft says a hacker group with ties to Iran has targeted a U.S. campaign, in the latest sign that foreign governments may try to influence the 2020 election. Shannon Bond
Technology Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big Tech Brad Smith says governments need to step in and set rules for the Internet giants. "Almost no technology has gone so entirely unregulated, for so long, as digital technology," he says. Aarti Shahani
Technology Microsoft Closes The Book On Its E-Library, Erasing All User Content The move comes as a result of Digital Rights Management, an approach that allows companies to prevent piracy. Every purchased book will disappear this month. Josh Axelrod Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Politics How an Amazon pledge figures in the politics of housing Amazon and Microsoft this week pledged $5 million each to build housing for homeless people in the Seattle area. Is there a political effect of this kind of corporate action? Angela King
