Pentagon drops Trump’s $10bn deal with Microsoft after Amazon challenge
The U.S. Defense Department cancelled a $10bn JEDI cloud-computing project late last night, pulling the Trump-era award to Microsoft while announcing a new contract that pits the big software firm against rival Amazon. Watch the full report.
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