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Pentagon cancels disputed JEDI cloud contract with Microsoft ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer July 6, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FILE - This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. The Pentagon said Tuesday, July 6, 2021, that it is canceling a cloud-computing contract with Microsoft that could eventually have been worth $10 billion and will instead pursue a deal with both Microsoft and Amazon.Charles Dharapak/AP WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon said it canceled a...

AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon said it canceled a disputed cloud-computing contract with Microsoft that could eventually have been worth $10 billion. It will instead pursue a deal with both Microsoft and Amazon and possibly other cloud service providers. “With the shifting technology environment, it has become clear that the JEDI Cloud contract, which has long been delayed, no longer meets the requirements to fill the DoD’s capability gaps,” the Pentagon ...

The speech-recognition pioneer's technology is aimed at helping doctors predict patients’ needs and upgrading hospitals’ digital record-keeping.

SHARE Microsoft is buying speech technology company Nuance Communications in an all-cash deal valued at $19.7 billion, including debt, making a massive bet on health care artificial intelligence. The software giant is offering to purchase Nuance at $56 per share, a 23 per cent premium to Friday’s close, according to a statement on Monday. The deal marks Microsoft’s largest acquisition since LinkedIn. It will “minimally” decrease earnings in the year that begins July 1 and start to add t...

Microsoft Buys Nuance for $19.7B in Healthcare Tech Bet Related Stories March 30, 2021 March 30, 2021 March 30, 2021 Microsoft Corp. is buying speech technology company Nuance Communications Inc. in an all cash deal valued at $19.7 billion, including debt, making a massive bet on healthcare artificial intelligence. The software giant is offering to purchase Nuance at $56 a share, a 23% premium to Friday’s close, according to a statement, which confirmed an earlier Bloomberg report. The deal ...

Purchase of Nuance Communications would mark Microsoft’s largest acquisition since LinkedIn.

Microsoft to Acquire Nuance for $19.6 Billion in Health-Care Bet Bloomberg 5 days ago Dina Bass and Liana Baker © Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg A logo sits on display outside the Microsoft Corp. pavilion at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. is buying speech-recognition pioneer Nuance Communications Inc. in an all-cash deal valued at $19.6 billion, gaining artificial-intelligence technology aimed at helping doctors predict patients...

Washington: Microsoft Corp. said its systems were exposed to the malware used in the Russia-linked hack that targeted US states and government agencies, adding that investigations so far show the malicious software wasnt used to attack others and didnt impact customer data or outward-facing systems. The company is a customer of SolarWinds Corp., whose software the hackers are believed to have used to gain access to networks by installing malicious code. Microsoft found code related to that cyb...

Microsoft Says Its Systems Were Exposed to SolarWinds Hack The company said investigations so far show the malicious software wasn’t used to attack others and didn’t impact customer data or outward-facing systems. Bloomberg | Dec 18, 2020 Dina Bass (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. said its systems were exposed to the malware used in the Russia-linked hack that targeted U.S. states and government agencies, adding that investigations so far show the malicious software wasn’t used to a...

Microsoft is a customer of SolarWinds Corp., whose software the hackers are believed to have used to gain access to networks by installing malicious code. Microsoft found code related to that cyber-attack “in our environment, which we isolated and removed,” spokesman Frank Shaw said in a statement posted to his Twitter account. “We have not found evidence of access to production services or customer data. Our investigations, which are ongoing, have found absolutely no indications that our...