Amazon blames Trump for loss of Pentagon contract. In a complaint filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington, Amazon said the president “launched repeated public and behind-the-scenes attacks” on the company to steer a lucrative cloud computing contract away from Amazon and Mr. Bezos, according to the complaint. The Wall Street Journal's John D. McKinnon has more.
About the contract. Amazon was long considered the favorite to win the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, contract, which is valued at as much as $10 billion over the next decade. It went to Microsoft.
About the 'attacks.' Mr. Trump has blamed Mr. Bezos for unfavorable coverage of his administration in the Washington Post, which Mr. Bezos bought in 2013 for $250 million. Mr. Trump also issued tweets in which he complained about the process.
Pensacola, Fla. hit by cyberattack. City emails, phone lines and 311 customer services have been affected. Mayor Grover Robinson said he didn’t know if the attack, which began on Saturday, was connected to Friday’s shooting when a Saudi flight student opened fire in a classroom at Naval Air Station Pensacola before he was shot to death by authorities. (WSJ)
T-Mobile, Sprint head to court to defend merger. In a case slated to start Monday, a coalition of 13 states and the District of Columbia, all led by Democratic attorneys general, is suing to block the $26 billion plan to merge the country’s third- and fourth-largest carriers by cellphone subscribers into a nationwide heavyweight rivaling Verizon Communications and AT&T. (WSJ)
McAfee considering a combination with NortonLifeLock. Should the deal move forward, it would be one of the largest recent technology takeovers—and potentially one of the largest leveraged buyouts too. NortonLifeLock is the new name for Symantec since that company closed a $10.7 billion deal to sell its enterprise-security business to Broadcom in early November. (WSJ)
S4 event of the week. A U.K.-based penetration testing company found over 750,000 applications for copies of birth certificates sitting on an unprotected AWS storage bucket. (TechCrunch)
Alphabet onboards Nobel Prize winner. Frances Arnold, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2018 for her work on enzymes and antibodies, will join Alphabet's board, filling a vacancy left by the retirement of molecular biology professor Shirley Tilghman. (Reuters)
Online luggage startup CEO packs it in. Away, an online seller of luggage that investors valued at $1.4 billion earlier this year, said Chief Executive Steph Korey is stepping down. Stuart Haselden, who is departing as chief operating officer at Lululemon, will succeed her as CEO, according to the company. (WSJ)
SoftBank sends startup to the dogs. Dog walker startup SoftBank Group’s Vision Fund has agreed to sell its nearly 50% stake in Wag Labs back to the struggling dog-walking startup. (WSJ)
|