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The hacker group behind the suspected Russian cyberattack of Texas-based IT company SolarWinds is now suspected of also gaining access to Microsoft’s internal systems.

Microsoft recently launched a new “Productivity Score” feature as part of Microsoft 365 which tracks workers’ productivity. Now, the company has agreed to remove user names from the feature following backlash from privacy experts. One researcher called the feature a “full-fledged workplace surveillance tool.”

A recent report outlines the number of Big Tech executives that are expected to join Joe Biden’s transition team in the coming weeks. The team includes insiders from the entire range of Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe.

A recent report from Wired magazine states that almost 95 percent of donations from employees at Silicon Valley tech giants went to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Donations to Biden from the employees of Big Tech companies have been double those to Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Emergency 911 services in 14 states went down temporarily on Monday, putting lives at risk. Some argue that the outages, which lasted for up to an hour, were caused by technical issues at Microsoft, which provides communications products used by emergency service departments. Others believe that the shutdown was caused by an issue with an emergency telephone service called Intrado.

A recent report claims that Google’s search engine is about to face major challenges as the DOJ readies an antitrust lawsuit accusing the tech giant of crushing competition to protect its monopoly.

Big Tech-funded lobbyists and D.C. insiders are expressing alarm that President Donald Trump is set to nominate an FCC commissioner, Nathan Simington, who isn’t one of them.

Oracle has won the bidding to take over the U.S. operations of the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, beating out Microsoft in a deal to allow the platform to continue operating in the United States. According to some sources familiar with the deal, it is closer to a “partnership” than an outright acquisition.

The CEO’s of America’s biggest tech giants lost a collective $25 billion following last week’s market sell-off with the S&P tech sector closing down by 5.8 percent.

The sale of the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok to a U.S. company may be shut down as China rewrites a number of export rules to give itself the power to veto certain sales, ultimately giving the communist government power over the TikTok deal.

Walmart has confirmed this week that it is teaming up with tech giant Microsoft in an attempt to purchase the Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok.

As the nightly violent Antifa riots continue, businesses are deciding to pull up roots in downtown Portland because of the lawlessness preventing their safe and profitable operation.

“I think Oracle is a great company, and I think its owner is a tremendous guy,” Trump said referring to cofounder Larry Ellison. “He’s a tremendous person.”

U.S. employees of the popular Chinese-owned social media app TikTok reportedly plan to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration over a recent executive order banning the app.

Tech giant Apple is reportedly refusing to allow major gaming apps from Microsoft, Google, and Facebook onto its iPhone app store, sparking a skirmish between the Big Tech Masters of the Universe.

A recent report claims that the Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok plans to sue the Trump administration over an executive order banning the app from the United States.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth has reportedly passed $100 billion for the first time after the social media giant’s stock price hit a record based on optimism about the release of its TikTok competitor, Reels. Only Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates also have fortunes worth more than $100 billion.

Breitbart News wants to believe that officials in the White House are serious about tackling tech censorship, but the outrageous proposal that Microsoft be allowed to purchase TikTok from China without offering concrete free speech commitments suggests the Deep State and corrupt establishment Republicans still hold sway.

In a recent article, Wired magazine outlines how U.S. tech giant Microsoft’s business relationships in China have positioned the company to buy the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok.

Microsoft is now reportedly seeking to buy all of TikTok’s global business, including the video app’s operations in India and Europe, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow on Thursday that social media app TikTok is “a Trojan Horse” that “vacuums up” all of the data on Americans’ phones for the Chinese Communist Party, and that the app must either sever all ties with its China or “be banned from the United States.”

Chinese state media continued its frenzied response to the prospective U.S. ban on  TikTok with editorials slamming the Trump administration for “robbery” and a “flagrant heist” because the app can only survive in the U.S. if Microsoft agrees to purchase it.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has reportedly backed the idea of Chinese app TikTok basing its global headquarters in London, as President Donald Trump prepares to ban or force the sale of the app in America.

President Donald Trump on Monday said that he supported the sale of TikTok to an American company but specified that the United States should get part of the funds.

On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN Newsroom,” White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro stated that Microsoft’s cooperation with China is an issue as Microsoft seeks to purchase TikTok and stated, “maybe Microsoft could divest its Chinese holdings and then we’d feel

U.S. tech giant Microsoft will reportedly move forward with plans to purchase the U.S. operations of the popular video-sharing app TikTok as the Chinese-owned platform faces a possible ban over national security issues.

Trump said Friday night on Air Force One that he was prepared to ban TikTok — currently owned by Chinese technology company ByteDance.

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn will layoff 960 employees, 6 percent of its workforce, as the professional networking site struggles with falling demand for its recruitment services in the wake of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

Newly released records appear to show that many Silicon Valley companies including Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have thousands of previously-unreported contracts with the U.S. military and law enforcement, including ICE and the FBI.

A second incumbent Republican has lost his primary race after backing a plan that would have allowed India to monopolize the nation’s employment-based green card system while rewarding Big Tech for outsourcing American STEM jobs. 

Microsoft announced on Friday that it will permanently close all of its retail locations. The company behind the ubiquitous Windows operating system announced this week that their 83 retail locations would close as part of a larger effort to shift focus to online sales.

Despite two-thirds of new Silicon Valley workers being foreign-born, technology companies lobby for immigration policies towards “diversity.”

“Black lives matter,” declared Microsoft as part of its promise to implement racial personnel quotas as it works towards “addressing racial injustice.”

Microsoft President Brad Smith has called for antitrust regulators to focus on rival tech giant Apple in a recent interview.

One of the lessons of the last few weeks of lies and insanity from the left is that America’s law enforcement community, which puts life and limb on the line every day to keep the country’s citizens safe, has few friends among the country’s political and media establishment — and even fewer in the Big Tech hubs of Silicon Valley and Seattle.

More than 250 Microsoft employees have urged CEO Satya Nadella to cancel the company’s contracts with the Seattle Police Department as part of a larger movement to defund the city’s police force.  Nadella has bowed to the pressure, saying “My response is this: Yes. We have to act. And our actions must reflect the values of our company and be directly informed by the needs of the Black and African American community.”