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    Microsoft in 2025: A Year of Profit, Cuts, and Trust Erosion

    The year’s tally is a long list of bruises: closed studios, canceled games, tens of thousands of jobs cut, a privacy‑shredding AI rollout that never should have left the slide deck, and a public ethics drama that ended with protesters escorted out of a company anniversary and key cloud contracts...
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    Indian corporate governance pulse: leadership changes, ad spend, ED raids, DPDP rules

    Anita Kotwani’s departure from Dentsu, Marico’s Q2 advertising splurge, the ED’s multi-site action in the Lodha probe, and the formal terms set for India’s Data Protection Board together map a compact but revealing snapshot of Indian corporate governance, advertising economics, regulatory...
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    Microsoft Adds Trusted Technology Review to Integrity Portal for Anonymous Reporting

    Microsoft has quietly added a formal, anonymous channel inside its employee Integrity Portal called Trusted Technology Review, a procedural change meant to give more direct lines for staff to raise ethical, legal, or human‑rights concerns about how Microsoft products and contracts are developed...
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    Ava Risk Group AGM Disrupted by Azure Outage Highlights Hybrid Meeting Resilience

    Ava Risk Group’s hybrid Annual General Meeting proceeded in person in Melbourne despite a last‑minute disruption to its virtual component after a global outage that hit Microsoft’s Azure platform, with the company warning shareholders that online participation and voting could be interrupted...
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    Datavault AI Expands with Quantum Center and Tokenized Asset Hub

    Datavault AI’s latest announcement reads like an all‑in one strategic sprint: corporate relocation, a dedicated quantum and AI research campus, an expanded London foothold for tokenized art and collectibles, and new advisory appointments — all wrapped in forward‑looking language about Web 3.0...
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    AI at the Boardroom: Logitech CEO Signals Potential AI Agents in Governance

    Logitech’s chief executive, Hanneke Faber, surprised few and interested many when she said she would consider adding an AI agent to her board of directors — a provocative comment that crystallizes a fast‑moving corporate conversation about where AI belongs in governance, the limits of current...
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    Sunak's Dual AI Advisory Roles: Governance Risks and UK Procurement

    Rishi Sunak has taken on part‑time senior advisory roles with both Microsoft and Anthropic — a dual appointment cleared by the UK’s Advisory Committee on Business Appointments but boxed in by strict post‑ministerial restrictions and intense public scrutiny. Background Rishi Sunak served as the...
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    Chyron Toolbox 4: 1080p SDI/NDI, Windows 11, Four Grabber Sessions

    Chyron’s Toolbox 4 represents a pragmatic, production‑focused refresh aimed at closing the gap between everyday PC/web content and live broadcast workflows by adding SDI/NDI capture, Windows 11 compatibility, full HD output, and a more flexible content‑grabber toolset that producers can...
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    Microsoft Monaco Controversy: National Security Risks and Corporate Governance

    President Trump’s public demand that Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco, the company’s newly minted president of global affairs, thrusts modern corporate-government relations into the crosshairs of partisan politics and raises immediate questions about how a major technology vendor safeguards sensitive...
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    Trump Urges Microsoft to Fire Lisa Monaco: National Security and Corporate Autonomy

    President Donald Trump’s public demand that Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco — the company’s newly installed president of global affairs and a former senior Justice Department official — escalated a fraught intersection of politics, corporate governance, and national security this week, touching on...
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    Single-Cloud AI on Azure: Performance, Governance & Cost Predictability

    A new Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated as a press release and picked up by partner outlets — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can produce concrete benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability, while also leaving room for...
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    Microsoft Suspends Azure and AI Subscriptions Tied to Israel Defense Unit After Review

    Microsoft has disabled specific Azure cloud and Azure AI subscriptions used by a unit of Israel’s Ministry of Defense after an expanded internal review found evidence supporting elements of investigative reporting that alleged the platform was being used to ingest, store and analyze large...
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    Microsoft’s No Azure for Apartheid: Labor Clash Over Cloud Ethics

    The confrontation at Microsoft’s Redmond campus in August and the weeks of escalation that followed have turned a previously quiet internal dispute into what may be the most consequential labor story in the U.S. this year: current and former Microsoft employees organized under the banner No...
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    Microsoft Tightens Internal Moderation, Security, and 3-Day RTO Policy

    Microsoft has quietly rewired the rules of the workplace inside one of the world’s largest technology companies: in a coordinated set of moves, Microsoft has tightened moderation of internal communications, hardened campus access after on‑site protests, and announced a phased return‑to‑office...
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    Microsoft's Three-Day Office Rule and Work-Speech Crackdown: Enterprise Implications

    Microsoft’s latest internal shake-up has collapsed two debates that have run through corporate tech since the pandemic: how much power employers should have over employee speech, and how far the hybrid workplace experiment goes before organizations insist on physical presence as a business...
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    Docler Redundancies Spotlight AI-Driven Reorganisation and the AI Job Shift

    Docler Holding’s recent mass redundancies — publicly tied by the company to an “AI-driven reorganisation” — are the latest, most visible symptom of a deeper labour-market shift: artificial intelligence is already reshaping which tasks employers buy and which people they keep. Background: why the...
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    Microsoft Azure Controversy Sparks Governance and Cloud Accountability Debate

    Microsoft’s decision to terminate multiple employees after an on‑campus sit‑in over alleged uses of Azure in Israeli military intelligence operations has turned a workplace protest into a major corporate governance and technology‑ethics crisis for the company — one that raises urgent questions...
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    Microsoft Governance Crisis 2025: ESG, Cloud, and Investor Risk

    Microsoft’s Redmond campus erupted into a governance crisis in 2025 that has become a live case study in how employee activism, geopolitical conflict, and the mechanics of cloud infrastructure can collide to create real investor risk—and why corporate governance is now a front-line risk...
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    Microsoft Fires Two Employees After Redmond Sit-In Over Azure Surveillance Debates

    Microsoft confirmed it fired two employees after a group of protesters — including current and former staffers — broke into the Redmond office of company president Brad Smith and staged a brief sit‑in as part of an intensifying campaign over Microsoft’s ties to the Israel Defense Forces and...
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    Microsoft Azure under scrutiny: Israel data, external review and cloud ethics

    Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, told reporters from his office at the Redmond campus that the company will “investigate and get to the truth” after a Guardian-led investigation alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 had used Microsoft Azure to store and process vast troves of intercepted Palestinian...
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