Amazon, the U.S. Government and the JEDI Contract

On this week’s episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast, Shelly Kramer is joined by her colleague and fellow analyst, Olivier Blanchard. In our Main Dive, we tackled this week’s news of the injunction issued by a judge in the case filed by Amazon protesting the award of the Pentagon’s $10Bn 10-year Department of Defense contract (referred to as the JEDI contract) to Microsoft.

 

THIS WEEK’s FAST FIVE

  • Update on the FTC vs. Qualcomm case that’s going before the 9th Circuit Court
  • FBI warns software providers about hacking
  • Ohio man arrest for running Bitcoin mixing service that laundered $300 million
  • Bugs in Bluetooth low energy chips might just be somewhere near you
  • Big Tech braces for sprawling FTC acquisitions review

 

This Week’s Tech Bites Winner: Plastic surgery images and invoices leak from unsecured database.

 

Our Crystal Ball: We circle back and talk about the situation between Amazon, the US Government and how it relates to the award of the DoD JEDI contract.  What should we expect from it?

 

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