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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Microsoft said on Wednesday it supports Australia’s plans to make the biggest digital platforms pay for news and would help small businesses transfer their advertising to Bing if Google quits the country. Microsoft has been positioning itself to increase market share for its search engine Bing after a Google executive told a Senate hearing last month that it would likely make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government goes ahead with a… Source link

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Microsoft said on Wednesday it supports Australia’s plans to make the biggest digital platforms pay for news and would help small businesses transfer their advertising to Bing if Google quits the country. Microsoft has been positioning itself to increase market share for its search engine Bing after a Google executive told a Senate hearing last month that it would likely make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government goes ahead with a… Source link

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Microsoft said on Wednesday it supports Australia’s plans to make the biggest digital platforms pay for news and would help small businesses transfer their advertising to Bing if Google quits the country. Microsoft has been positioning itself to increase market share for its search engine Bing after a Google executive told a Senate hearing last month that it would likely make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government goes ahead with a draft… Source link

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Microsoft has moved to capitalise on Google’s threat to shut its search engine in Australia, throwing its weight behind efforts to make Big Tech pay for news content and offering to transfer small businesses to its rival service Bing at no cost. The Seattle-based company on Wednesday slammed Google’s threat to exit Australia over the news media bargaining code and said it fully supported a draft law aimed at forcing technology groups to pay news providers for… Source link

Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) reportedly is positioning Bing to be the internet search engine of choice in Australia if Alphabet Inc. (GOOG, GOOGL) makes good on a threat to make Google unavailable in that country. The bone of contention is a proposed law that would force Google and Facebook, Inc. (FB), among others, to pay for content that these tech giants copy from Australian news sites. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison indicates that he has spoken to… Source link

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Software giant Microsoft Corp is confident its search product Bing can fill the gap in Australia if Google pulls its search over required payments to media outlets, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday. Australia has introduced laws that would force internet giant Google and social media heavyweight Facebook Inc to negotiate payments to domestic media outlets whose content links drive traffic to their platforms. However, the Big Tech firms have called the laws… Source link

Those select few on Wall Street waiting for tech giant Microsoft (MSFT) to stumble a bit amid sky-high expectations will have to wait another quarter. Or maybe another year. The company had a litany of wins in its most recent quarter that suggests business momentum will be sustained for some time, Jefferies tech analyst Brent Thill thinks. First, sales of Microsoft’s cloud service Azure rose an impressive 50% year-over-year as companies continued to pull forward cloud spending as workforces… Source link

Stock futures opened slightly higher on Tuesday investors awaited another batch of corporate earnings results and the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) January monetary policy decision. S&P 500 futures traded higher by about 0.2% as the overnight session kicked off, holding near the index’s all-time high. Contracts on both the Nasdaq and Dow also increased. Late Tuesday, shares of heavily weighted tech stock Microsoft (MSFT) jumped after the company posted fiscal second quarter… Source link

Bloomberg NYC Apartment Landlords Getting Burned in Gentrification Crash (Bloomberg) — New York’s apartment investors are suddenly waist-deep in distress.By December, they were behind on $395 million of debt backed by mortgage bonds, almost 150 times the level a year earlier, according to Trepp data on commercial mortgage-backed securities. Tenants in rent-stabilized units owe at least $1 billion in rent and wealthier ones are fleeing the city, leaving behind vacancies and pushing… Source link