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Pentagon Cloud Computing Deal Could Give Amazon Monopoly

Good news for Amazon.com employees is not necessarily good news for everyone else. For example, consider the announcement that Amazon.com will now pay at least $15 per hour. That may be great for curr... read more

Why Pentagon Cloud-Computing Contract Is a Huge Deal

The U.S. Defense Department is running a winner-take-all competition to choose a cloud-computing ... Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. are among those vying fo... read more

IBM: We're protesting over Pentagon's $10bn winner-take-all JEDI cloud deal

IBM has followed Oracle in filing a bid protest against the Pentagon's 'single-cloud' requirements for its JEDI contract, which could be worth up to ... the GAO over another $950m defense deal awarded ... read more

Google Drops Bid for Massive Military Cloud Computing Contract Amid Employee Pressure

Photo: Jose Luis Magana (AP) Google has dropped out of the competition for a Pentagon cloud ... have complained could essentially give it a monopoly on cloud computing contracts for the military ... read more

Amazon's attempt to land major Pentagon job stokes antitrust fears

Antitrust critics fear that a winner-take-all contract for the Defense Department’s cloud computing needs could help tech giant Amazon corner the ... in its current form would give its winner control ... read more

Pentagon-Amazon Cloud Contract Risks Tax Dollars and National Security

The Department of Defense is preparing to hand Amazon.com Inc. a massive four-year $1.6 billion cloud computing contract that may give ... that could threaten national security and prove disastrous fo... read more

Microsoft says it nears security win ahead of deadline for Pentagon cloud bid

Microsoft is on track to catch up with Amazon by obtaining top federal security authorizations early next year, bolstering the company’s position in the Pentagon’s winner-take-all competition for a mu... read more

Trump says China should be party to INF Treaty

GOP LAWMAKERS SEEK PROBE INTO DOD CLOUD CONTRACT: “House Republicans called for an investigation into a $10 billion Defense Department contract proposal that critics say was tailored to give Amazon .. ... read more

DealBook Briefing: C.E.O.s Are America’s New Diplomats

“It’s very early, we don’t know whether we would or could ... Amazon explained why it was important for large tech firms to work with the U.S. military. (His company is a front-runner for a $10 billio... read more

Big-data rivals Cloudera and Hortonworks announce big-deal merger

Investors, as well as analysts on the conference call, liked the deal, which will give the combined ... compete both with huge cloud computing companies such as Amazon Web Services Inc. and ... read more

Microsoft Boasts of a Security Win Ahead of Pentagon Cloud Bids

Bids for the project, which could last as long as 10 years and be valued ... “I don’t think this rises beyond the level of a PR win.” QuickTake: Why Pentagon Cloud-Computing Contract Is a Huge Deal Am... read more