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Submission + - Trump backs Oracle in Google case...after Larry Ellison fundraiser 1

Submitted by kimanaw on Thursday February 20, 2020 @01:44PM

kimanaw writes: Bloomberg reports

The Trump administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject an appeal by Alphabet Inc.’s Google, boosting Oracle Corp.’s bid to collect more than $8 billion in royalties for Google’s use of copyrighted programming code in the Android operating system.

The administration weighed in on the high-stakes case on the same day that President Donald Trump attended a re-election campaign fundraiser in California hosted by Oracle’s co-founder, billionaire Larry Ellison.

Submission + - Wisconsin's $4.1 billion Foxconn Boondoggle

Submitted by kimanaw on Monday October 29, 2018 @03:08PM

kimanaw writes: A story on The Verge reports on Foxconn's substantially scaled back plans for the heavily subsidized Wisconsin "gigafactory".

Submission + - White House wants to borrow tech workers

Submitted by kimanaw on Monday October 22, 2018 @06:13PM

kimanaw writes: According to CNET, TechCrunch and others:

Trump administration reportedly wants tech giants to make it easy for workers to take leaves of absence to help the government modernize.

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