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UPDATE 1-Amazon to protest Pentagon's $10-bln cloud award to Microsoft – WSJ

Amazon.com Inc will protest the Pentagon’s decision to award a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft Corp, the Wall Street Journal reported (https://on.wsj.com/2CLjsdK) on Thursday, citing a statement. Amazon did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. A challenge to the Defense Department’s award announced last month was widely expected by legal experts, analysts and consultants, especially after President Donald Trump publicly derided Amazon’s bid for the high-stakes contract. …read more […]

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Montana lawmakers seek more time for Keystone XL public, tribal input

Montana lawmakers representing Native American tribal members called on the state’s congressional delegation and the U.S. State Department on Thursday to extend the public comment period for the environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline, saying tribes were not properly consulted.

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Netflix to change Nazi guard documentary after Polish complaint

Netflix said on Thursday it would make changes to maps in a documentary that showed German Nazi death camps inside the borders of modern Poland, after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki pressed the streaming and production company to act. The maps in the documentary series “The Devil Next Door” were criticised by Morawiecki earlier this week for implying that Poland existed at that time as an independent nation within its postwar borders and thus could share responsibility for the atrocities committed at the camps during World War Two. …read more […]

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Canopy Growth (CGC): When Will the Horror Show End?

When investors thought Canopy Growth (CGC) couldn’t report any worse numbers, the company shocked the market with another big miss. Digging into the numbers, the underlying trends were better than the headlines, but the leading Canadian cannabis LP has a long way to go before the business is supportive of the current valuation still around $5.2 billion.Big ChargesThe company officially reported FQ2 revenues of C$76.6 million. These revenues were hit by C$32.7 million in restructuring charges from returns and pricing allowances from the softgel and oil inventory and an inventory charge of C$15.9 million.These combined charges reduced gross margins by …read more […]

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UPDATE 1-Boeing brings back humans after automation problems on 777 assembly

Boeing Co has scaled back use of automation to make fuselage sections for its 777 jetliners amid reports of reliability issues and returned to having mechanics do some of the work, the planemaker said on Thursday. The company began to build 777 fuselages in 2015 in an upright orientation, with robots drilling holes and installing fasteners, an initiative known as fuselage automated upright build (FAUB). Boeing had faced delays last year when the FAUB machine was tried out on existing versions of the 777. …read more […]