- Yahoo Finance
DC is testing its Big Tech antitrust campaign far from DC
No longer is the nation’s capital always the trial venue of choice for the Justice Department and FTC as they file antitrust suits against the biggest names in Silicon Valley.
- Reuters
PRESS DIGEST- Wall Street Journal - May 16
The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. - Microsoft is asking hundreds of employees in China to consider transferring outside the country amid a rise in tensions between Washington and Beijing around critical technology like cloud computing and artificial intelligence. - International Business Machines is selling to Palo Alto Networks its cloud-based QRadar cybersecurity software as the two technology companies deepen their partnership in jointly selling and developing security products powered by artificial intelligence.
- Reuters
UPDATE 2-Microsoft asks some China staff to relocate amid Sino-US tensions
Microsoft is asking some of its China-based employees to consider transferring outside the country, the company said on Thursday, as relations between U.S. and China grow increasingly strained over technologies like artificial intelligence and semiconductors. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news, said Microsoft is asking about 700 to 800 people who are involved in machine learning and other work related to cloud computing to consider relocating. Microsoft remains committed to China and will continue to operate there and other markets, the spokesperson said.
