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May 24, 2025

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Tables turned, Ocasio-Cortez plays defense in primary fight

June 12, 2020 Alan Fram, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s turn to defend her record and battle accusations that she’s lost touch with her district. The out-of-nowhere winner of 2018’s most spectacular election upset, the New York Democrat […]

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Microsoft joins Amazon, IBM in pausing face scans for police

June 12, 2020 Matt O'Brien, Associated Press

Microsoft has become the third big tech company this week to say it won’t sell its facial recognition software to police, following similar moves by Amazon and IBM. Microsoft’s president and chief counsel, Brad Smith, […]

Business

Prominent surgeon Gawande steps down as health venture CEO

May 14, 2020 The Associated Press

A health care venture created by three corporate giants to attack some of the system’s biggest flaws has lost its high-profile CEO. Harvard professor and author Dr. Atul Gawande is stepping down as chief executive […]

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Pentagon: $10B cloud contract that snubbed Amazon was legal

April 16, 2020 Robert Burns, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Pentagon’s process for awarding a highly lucrative cloud computing contract to Microsoft instead of Amazon was in line with legal and government purchasing standards, a government watchdog agency said Wednesday. The […]

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Doorbell Cameras and Privacy: Who is watching?

September 11, 2019 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — The increase in popularity of doorbell cameras has led to an increase in privacy concerns and for citizens to know their rights when it comes to surveillance technology. The top doorbell camera systems […]

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Amazon, Microsoft wage war over the Pentagon’s ‘war cloud’

July 10, 2019 Matt O’Brien | The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Amazon and Microsoft are battling it out over a $10 billion opportunity to build the U.S. military its first “war cloud” computing system. But Amazon’s early hopes of a shock-and-awe victory may […]

Business

Food stamps and online grocery shopping are about to mix

April 19, 2019 admin

NEW YORK — Amazon and Walmart on Thursday kicked off a two-year government pilot program allowing low-income shoppers on government food assistance in New York to shop and pay for their groceries online for the […]

Business

NC recruiters won’t disclose full offers to Amazon, Apple

December 25, 2018 admin

RALEIGH — North Carolina taxpayers may never learn how much in tax breaks, free land and other giveaways business recruiters were willing to throw at tech giants Apple and Amazon to attract thousands of jobs […]

Business

Amazon’s Washington influence machine built to withstand Trump’s attacks

March 29, 2018 North State Journal Staff

WASHINGTON — Between lobbying, campaign contributions and positioning itself as engaged on policy issues like job creation, Amazon.com has long courted a positive relationship with both the White House and Congress that will help it […]

Article

Disney to buy Fox film, TV businesses for $52 billion

December 14, 2017 Emily Roberson

(REUTERS) – Walt Disney Co has struck a deal to buy film, television and international businesses from Rupert Murdoch’s Twenty-First Century Fox Inc for $52.4 billion in stock as the world’s largest entertainment company seeks […]

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