All Microsoft articles
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CBRE adds ex-Microsoft environmental head as chief sustainability officer
Commercial real estate and investment firm CBRE Group announced the appointment of Robert Bernard as chief sustainability officer and senior vice president, client sustainability solutions.
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ArticleCovington to contest SEC court request for breached client data
The Securities and Exchange Commission asked a federal court to force Covington & Burling to comply with a subpoena seeking the law firm turn over names of about 300 clients impacted by a 2020 cyberattack.
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Microsoft recruits sustainability chief from White House
Technology giant Microsoft announced the addition of Melanie Nakagawa as chief sustainability officer. Nakagawa most recently served as special assistant to the president and senior director for climate and energy on the National Security Council at the White House.
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Five compliance triumphs from 2022
Positive contributions in the areas of ESG, AI responsibility, and setting standards regarding CCO liability highlight the latest installment of CW’s annual list of laudable ethics and compliance moments.
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Microsoft’s chief environmental officer to leave for private equity firm
Microsoft’s Chief Environmental Officer Lucas Joppa announced he will depart the company after more than 12 years to join a private equity firm.
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Microsoft, Activision Blizzard, and importance of cultural due diligence in M&A
Rarely do cultural considerations play a role in M&A transactions, though they are often critical to the ultimate success of a deal. Microsoft’s planned acquisition of embattled video game developer Activision Blizzard offers a timely case study.
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The debate over AI: Regulate the tech or its use?
Recent comments by Facebook’s top executive in charge of developing AI reignite the debate over whether regulators should be more focused on reining in the technology itself or just the way it is used.
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Cisco adds chief legal officer from Microsoft
Technology company Cisco announced the hiring of Dev Stahlkopf as its new executive vice president and chief legal officer. Stahlkopf joins from Microsoft, where she served as general counsel and corporate vice president.
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EU probes of Microsoft, Amazon reignite calls for new Privacy Shield
European investigations into whether Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud-based services infringe EU privacy rules have once again shone a spotlight on how—and when—the United States and the European Union intend to come up with a new Privacy Shield.
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Cyber-security lessons from the SolarWinds hack
The lessons from the massive SolarWinds hack on where vulnerabilities still lurk in the third-party vendor supply chain cannot be grasped soon enough.
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Age of Learning to pay $10M for billing practices; ‘digital deception’ a trend?
The company that runs ABCmouse Early Learning Academy found itself in the FTC’s crosshairs for what the Commission alleges are unfair billing practices that are part of a wider problem across the internet.
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Kudos to TikTok, tech brethren; Starbucks & Luckin have us soured on coffee cos.
In the inaugural edition of our weekly “Nailed It or Failed It?” feature, we give TikTok and other tech companies a pat on the back and shake our heads at the actions of Starbucks and Luckin Coffee.
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CPE Webcast: CCPA - The California AG is ready. Are you?
With the CCPA being the most important privacy and data security law ever to be enacted in the United States, it will bring a sea of change in the way businesses manage and communicate with consumers about personal data.
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Microsoft announces chief accounting officer succession
Microsoft disclosed in a regulatory filing the appointment of Alice Jolla as corporate vice president and chief accounting officer, effective July 31. Jolla will replace Frank Brod, who is retiring from the position.
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Ireland’s GDPR report shows it’s yet to hold Big Tech accountable
The Irish Data Protection Commission review of its GDPR investigations has come under fire for ignoring Big Tech and lacking information pertinent to inquiries into firms like Apple, Facebook, Google, and more.
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EIC2020 Winners: Alan Gibson (Anti-Corruption); Robert Seibel (TPRM); Cindy Merlino (Training)
CW’s first-ever Excellence in Compliance Awards recognizes Microsoft’s Alan Gibson as winner of the Excellence in Compliance (Anti-Corruption) award, Abercrombie Fitch’s Robert Seibel as Excellence in Compliance (TPRM), and Pearson’s Cindy Merlino as Excellence in Compliance (Training).
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For some companies in the age of coronavirus, ethics pays
Despite slow governmental response to the coronavirus outbreak that is grinding the world economy to a halt, several businesses have decided it is worth going above and beyond to help customers and employees.
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FTC turns up antitrust heat on Big Tech
The FTC will require the top five U.S. technology firms—Alphabet Inc. (Google), Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft—to provide information on acquisitions not previously reported to the agency dating back 10 years.
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Microsoft data leak points to industry-wide security vulnerabilities
Microsoft made headlines when it was discovered that nearly 250 million customer service and support records were exposed on the Web through several unsecured cloud servers. But that’s only a glimpse into wider cloud-security weaknesses throughout the industry.
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Regulators wary of crypto as digital assets go mainstream
Federal agencies struggle to categorize digital coins as currency, securities, commodities, property, or something else—but even as they dither, some big companies strive forward in the digital assets arena.
