Microsoft's Brad Smith about his new book and how tech sector and governments need to step up and do more to address the challenges that technology is creating
Microsoft President Brad Smith has a light-up globe, a neon blue miniature likeness of Earth, spinning on his desk inside the company's Redmond headquarters.
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@geoffreyfowler
Geoffrey A. Fowler
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Microsoft president @BradSmi has misgivings about tech being “weaponized.” He spoke with my @PostTech colleague @greene about them: https://wapo.st/2m5ofBI
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@microsoft
@microsoft
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Cybersecurity 👩💻 Privacy 🔒 The impact of AI 💻 Microsoft president Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne discuss these issues and more in the upcoming book, #ToolsandWeapons. Pre-order your copy today for #NationalReadABookDay: http://msft.social/...
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@killyourfm
@killyourfm
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“To tell a tech company that it can sell products, but not buy an operating system or chips, is like telling a hotel company that it can open its doors, but not put beds in its hotel rooms or food in its restaurant.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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@huaweifacts
Huawei Facts
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#Microsoft President @BradSmi urges the U.S. government to make decisions on #Huawei with a “sound basis in fact, logic and the rule of law.” #HuaweiFacts https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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@nytimes
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Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple are currently targets of government investigations and public outrage, facing accusations that they abuse their power in various ways. Conspicuously absent from most of that criticism is Microsoft. https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@normbosa
Norman Barbosa
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“It's just Microsoft versus the Russian government is what struck me. . .” Tools and Weapons is a great read on the issues we face everyday in Microsoft's Customer Security and Trust org. Chapters 1-5 are basically why I love my job. https://twitter.com/...
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@stevelohr
Steve Lohr
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Lesson for today's young tech giants: Brad Smith of Bill Gates — a founder who “learned that life actually does require compromise and governments actually are stronger than companies,” if only after a bruising confrontation. https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@martinvetterli
Martin Vetterli
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#Europe is 'the world's best hope for privacy's future' says @Microsoft President @BradSmi in an interview with @SteveLohr - “How Top-Valued Microsoft Has Avoided the Big Tech Backlash” https://www.nytimes.com/... via @nytimes #GDPR ping @FredericJacobs @brynosaurus @JPHubaux
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@microsoft
@microsoft
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“'When your technology changes the world, you bear a responsibility to help address the world that you have helped create,'” says Microsoft president @BradSmi in the upcoming #ToolsAndWeapons book. Read more in the @NYTimes: http://msft.social/...
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@fxshaw
Frank X. Shaw
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How Top-Valued Microsoft Has Avoided the Big Tech Backlash https://www.nytimes.com/... thoughtful story per usual by @stevelohr
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@benedictevans
Benedict Evans
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Alternative title - 'why hasn't Microsoft's social network or video-sharing site faced criticism'? 🤔 https://www.nytimes.com/...