Microsoft Corp. said it’s seeking to expand its partnership with the Pentagon after winning the sought-after JEDI cloud computing contract valued at as much as $10 billion over a decade.
Microsoft has won the sought-after JEDI cloud computing contract with the Pentagon valued at as much as $10 billion over a decade, dealing a blow to the market leader, Amazon.com, which had been the front-runner.
The move would mirror efforts in other countries, like France and the U.K., to develop tax policies that can better account for operations of digital and virtual companies that have seen exponential growth.
The shift moves the world’s biggest search engine from spitting out results based on keywords to “something closer to language,” said Ben Gomes, the search chief for Alphabet Inc.’s Google.
HPE CEO Antonio Neri is tying to increase sales by moving the company to a subscription business model. By 2022, all HPE hardware and software will be available as a service or via a pay-per-use model.
Employees said they discovered the company was creating a new tool that would automatically report staffers who create a calendar event with more than 10 rooms or 100 participants.
CEO Satya Nadella has spent the past five years building up Microsoft’s cloud business, which lets customers avoid having to buy and run their own hardware and applications.
Lawmakers made it clear that they are skeptical that Facebook should be trusted with the tremendous power it has amassed over 2.7 billion global users.
The software can scan footage including from closed-circuit television to automatically match faces and license plates to a police database and pick out suspects in a crowd.
