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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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Who’ll blink first: The world’s largest music company or TikTok?

Vox

At the end of January, when Universal Music Group (UMG) failed to negotiate a new licensing deal with TikTok , it removed its entire music catalog from the app. They want to pay under the market rate for licensing our catalog. How much was TikTok paying to license the Universal Music Group’s music and how much does UMG want now?

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Avalara nabs nearly $1B in debt securities to fuel growing tax compliance software business

GeekWire

The money will be used to fuel the company’s compliance automation software that helps more than 30,000 companies across 95 countries manage their sales and other types of taxes. Customers include companies such as Zillow, Pinterest, Converse, Roku, Thule, and others. The company employs more than 3,330 people worldwide.

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How copyright lawsuits could kill OpenAI

Vox

This did not escape the notice of the record companies, and in 2001, a federal court ruled that Napster was liable for copyright infringement. Late last year, the New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft , alleging that the companies are stealing its copyrighted content to train their large language models and then profiting off of it.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. However, Companies House, the UK register of commerce, has no record of such a company, and it’s not until 1997 that Lynch creates another company, called simply Neurodynamics.

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Who’s an astronaut? FAA weighs in on a murky issue for suborbital space travelers

GeekWire

Those guidelines suggest that astronaut wings can go only to crew members on a licensed spacecraft who contribute to flight safety and rise above the 50-mile altitude mark. The answer appears to be no, if you go by the Federal Aviation Administration’s newly issued guidelines for its commercial space astronaut wings program.

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Tech Moves: Top Blue Origin engineer joins SpaceX; Axon hires HTC Vive exec; Porch adds to board

GeekWire

Law enforcement technology company Axon added former HTC Vive exec Chris Chin as vice president of immersive tech. The company says its mission is to help de-escalate police use of force by providing transparency, technologies and tools that can replace deadly weapons. Chris Chin. Axon Photo). — Headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz.,

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