Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc is denying a Pentagon cloud-computing contract valued at as much as $10 billion was unfairly tailored for the e-commerce giant. In a court filing made public on February 17, Amazon countered rival Oracle Corp’s claims that bidding for the lucrative cloud deal was tainted by relationships between its employees and former Pentagon officials. Oracle is appealing a ...

Bloomberg UK inflation picked up for the first time in six months in January, tempering expectations for a Bank of England (BOE) interest-rate cut later this year. Consumer prices rose a stronger-than-forecast 1.8% in January from a year earlier, the fastest since July, the Office for National Statistics said . Core inflation picked up to 1.6%. The pound erased a ...

Bloomberg Microsoft Corp tested for the first time in a live election security software that executives say will help restore the trust of voters shaken by claims of fraud, hacking and disinformation in the 2016 election. The company piloted its solution to verify results, a system called ElectionGuard, with voters in Fulton, Wisconsin, who chose candidates for state Supreme Court. ...