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Microsoft Insurer Loses Bid To Recoup $175M from Xbox Chipmaker Hit by Fire
Apr 4 2019 // Microsoft Corp.’s captive insurer has lost its bid to recover $175 million in costs the software maker said it incurred in 2013 to replace memory chips that a manufacturer failed to deliver because of a fire at the...
Microsoft Exec Says It’s Time to Revisit Big Tech’s Responsibility for Its Content
Mar 25 2019 // Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith has called for a broad effort by the technology sector to do more to halt posting and accessing of violent materials like the videos of killings from the recent terrorist attacks in New...
Microsoft’s Home State’s Facial Recognition Privacy Bill Could Be Model for Others
Feb 8 2019 // Two months after calling for laws to regulate facial-recognition software, Microsoft Corp. is lobbying on behalf of a first-of-its-kind bill in its home state of Washington. The question is whether cross-town rival...
Microsoft Targets Healthcare with Medical Records in the Cloud, Bots and More
Feb 7 2019 // Microsoft Corp. is releasing a service to help health-care companies move vast amounts of patient data to its cloud and connect with other related systems in a bid to offer clinicians, individuals and researchers a more...
How Big Tech Is Using Artificial Intelligence to Stop Hackers
Jan 3 2019 // Last year, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure security team detected suspicious activity in the cloud computing usage of a large retailer: One of the company’s administrators, who usually logs on from New York, was trying...
Big High Tech Is Big on Reimagining Health Care
Sep 17 2018 // Apple Inc.’s new watch is the latest proof: Big Tech is trying to remake health care in its own image. The device, introduced at a splashy launch event this week, can call for help after a fall. It can monitor...
Washington Orders Microsoft to Stop Using Captive Insurer
Jun 4 2018 // Washington’s insurance commissioner issued a cease and desist order against Microsoft Corp. to stop using its Arizona-domiciled captive, Cypress Insurance Co. Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler’s cease and...
Microsoft to Extend EU Data Privacy Rights Globally. Facebook, Google Not Quite.
May 24 2018 // Microsoft promised this week to give users worldwide the same data and privacy rights Europeans will get under new regulations there. That’s in contrast to some of its tech rivals, who are hedging on how much privacy...
Washington Orders Microsoft to Stop Using Captive Insurer
May 21 2018 // Washington’s insurance commissioner issued a cease and desist order against Microsoft Corp. to stop using its Arizona-domiciled captive, Cypress Insurance Co. Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler’s cease and...
Google, Microsoft Urge Georgia Governor to Veto Cybercrime Bill
May 4 2018 // Tech giants Google and Microsoft have joined a chorus or cybersecurity experts urging Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal to veto a bill that makes unauthorized computer access a crime punishable by up to a year in prison. The...
Microsoft Internal Findings Say Gender Bias at Washington Tech Giant Rarely Founded
Mar 16 2018 // Microsoft Corp.’s investigators concluded that fewer than 1 percent of gender-discrimination complaints made internally were “founded,” according to data unsealed in an ongoing class-action lawsuit. The...
Cyber Risk Management Fails to Measure Up to Escalating Cyber Risks: Marsh, Microsoft
Feb 16 2018 // Few organizations are highly confident in their ability to manage the risk of a cyber attack, despite viewing cyber security as a top risk management priority, according to a new global survey conducted by Marsh and...
Wary Businesses Test Fixes for Chip Flaws Before Installing
Jan 8 2018 // Chances that a fix to a major microchip security flaw may slow down or crash some computer systems are leading some businesses to hold off installing software patches, fearing the cure may be worse than the original...
Microsoft Wants to Pit AI Against Climate Change
Dec 21 2017 // Red and green make yellow. And depending on how one feels about climate change, it could be considered a cautionary tale for the U.S. that China plans to create the world’s largest carbon market, possibly making it...
Microsoft to Stop Requiring Arbitration for Employees’ Harassment, Bias Claims
Dec 20 2017 // Microsoft Corp. is eliminating a requirement that employees pursue sexual harassment and gender bias claims through arbitration instead of in court, after revelations this year of improper behavior across technology,...
Supreme Court to Rule on Email Privacy and Government’s Access to Servers
Oct 16 2017 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to resolve a major privacy dispute between the Justice Department and Microsoft Corp. over whether prosecutors should get access to emails stored on company servers overseas. The...
EY, Maersk and Microsoft Create Blockchain-Based Marine Insurance Platform
Sep 6 2017 // Consultancy EY, data security firm Guardtime, Microsoft and ship operator Maersk have joined to build a blockchain-based marine insurance platform that will be the first real-world use of the nascent technology in the...
WannaCry Ransomware Hackers Threaten to Release More Malicious Code
May 17 2017 // Governments turned their attention to a possible new wave of cyber threats on Tuesday after the group that leaked U.S. hacking tools used to launch the global WannaCry “ransomware” attack warned it would...
Firms Hit by Cyber Attack Could Face Lawsuits over Lax Security: Legal Experts
May 16 2017 // Businesses that failed to update Microsoft Windows-based computer systems that were hit by a massive cyber attack over the weekend could be sued over their lax cyber security, but Microsoft Corp. itself enjoys strong...
Global Cyber Attack Expected to Continue but Malware Spread Slows
May 15 2017 // Governments and companies around the world began to gain the upper hand against the first wave of an unrivaled global cyber attack, even as the assault was poised to continue claiming victims this week. More than 200,000...
