Amazon and Microsoft's battle over a lucrative cloud computing contract escalated today after a judge temporarily blocked Microsoft's work on the project amid the Amazon-Trump feud by rachsandl
The halt comes after Amazon requested permission from a judge to depose Trump, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and other officials over why the company lost the contract back in October.
Amazon claims it lost the contract because Trump is personally biased against CEO Jeff Bezos for his ownership of theBoth Amazon and Microsoft shares fell less than 1% on the news.: Microsoft said in a statement the company is “disappointed with the additional delay.” “We have confidence in the Department of Defense, and we believe the facts will show they ran a detailed, thorough and fair process in determining the needs of the warfighter were best met by Microsoft,” said Frank Shaw, Microsoft’s vice president of communications.: The JEDI contract was steeped in controversy even before Amazon lost. IBM and Oracle, which were also up for the contract, complained in early 2019 the process was biased in favor of Amazon.
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