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Allianz Forms Partnership with Microsoft, Aiming to Transform Insurance Processes

Nov 14 2019 // Allianz SE and Microsoft Corp. announced a strategic partnership focused on digitally transforming the insurance industry, making the insurance process easier while creating a better experience for insurance companies and...

Microsoft Vows to Honor California’s Consumer Privacy Law Countrywide

Nov 11 2019 // Microsoft Corp. said in a blog post on Monday that it would honor California’s privacy law throughout the United States, expanding the impact of a strict set of rules meant to protect consumers and their...

Microsoft Women Face Skeptical Appeals Court over Unequal-Pay Case

Nov 5 2019 // Women engineers who claim Microsoft Corp. discriminates against them for pay and promotions faced tough questions from a federal appeals court weighing whether their ground-breaking lawsuit should become a class...

Microsoft Tools Ease Access to Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence for Businesses

May 3 2019 // Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced new tools for software makers aimed at making technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain easier for businesses to use.Microsoft released the tools ahead of its...

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...