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A U.S. judge on Friday put on hold a suit by Amazon.com Inc challenging the Pentagon's decision to award a $10 billion contract to Microsoft Corp.

One of the biggest changes wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic has been the rapid adoption of videoconferencing for employees working from home. What was once used by just a small percentage of workers has quickly blossomed into a full-on movement.

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The coronavirus pandemic has made it clear that, despite all of the cutting-edge technologies in healthcare, there's still much that scientists don't know about how the human immune system works. 

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It's increasingly difficult to say Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) isn't taking the work-at-home movement seriously. On Thursday, its flagship brand Google updated its video conferencing platform Meet to make it look more like the one offered by Zoom Video Communications

Despite the recent turmoil in the markets caused by the novel coronavirus, the Nasdaq-100 (NDX) is holding near flat, which is due to the strength of some of its large-cap components, particularly the tech stocks.

While the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite were rallying Thursday morning, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) was moving in the opposite direction. The Dow was down 0.4% at 11:50 a.m. EDT today, dragged lower by steep declines from its industrial, financial,

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Sony (NYSE: SNE) is scaling back the early production runs of the upcoming PlayStation 5 gaming console, according to Bloomberg's anonymous insiders. The company expects moderate consumer interest in the console at launch due to a big-ticket price tag.

The S&P 500 and Dow Jones slipped on Thursday, giving up early gains as concerns about dismal first-quarter earnings and lasting economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic offset better-than-expected weekly jobless claims numbers.

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the Invesco QQQ (Symbol: QQQ) where we have detected an approximate $1.5 billion dollar inflow -- that's a 1.6% increase week over week in outstanding

Verizon Communications Inc said on Thursday it agreed to buy video-conferencing company BlueJeans Network Inc, a rival of Zoom Video Communications Inc, for less than $500 million.

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Verizon Communications Inc on Thursday agreed to buy video-conferencing company Blue Jeans Network Inc, a rival of Zoom Video Communications Inc, for an undisclosed price.

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Google will allow business and education users on Gmail.com to directly take calls on its video conferencing tool Meet starting Thursday, a new feature being offered as the Alphabet Inc unit seeks to capitalize on security and other concerns with rival services.

Google is telling Nest camera users it is reducing the quality of the video the cameras produce in an effort to conserve bandwidth. 

The Pentagon's Inspector General has weighed in on a controversial $10 billion cloud computing contract awarded to Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), saying the Department of Defense followed proper procedures when picking Microsoft over Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) but offering a less decisive

The Pentagon's inspector general on Wednesday said it could not determine whether the White House influenced the award of a $10 billion contract to Microsoft Corp over Amazon after several officials said their conversations were privileged "presidential communications."