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Oracle loses challenge to $10 billion Pentagon cloud contract — Bloomberg

Oracle lost its legal challenge to the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud contract on Friday, writes Naomi Nix. Here is the link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-12/oracle-loses-court-challenge-to-10-billion-cloud-contract

France passes tax on tech giants despite US threats — BBC

The 3% tax will be levied on sales generated in France by multinational firms like Google and Facebook, according to the report. Here is the...

From the warehouse to IT: Amazon offering 100,000 workers tech training — NPR

The company announced Thursday that it will spend more than $700 million to train 100,000 employees for higher-skilled jobs over the next six years,...

Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency ‘poses risks to global banking’ — The Guardian

Move could affect competition and data privacy, warns Bank for International Settlements, writes Phillip Inman and Angela Monaghan. Here is the link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jun/23/facebook-libra-cryptocurrency-poses-risks-to-global-banking

Amazon patents ‘surveillance as a service’ tech for its delivery drones — The Verge

Amazon was recently granted a patent that outlines how its UAVs could keep an eye on customers’ property between deliveries while supposedly maintaining their...