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Huawei | February 18, 2020

For close to a year, Huawei has been trying to stay competitive despite dire US sanctions hitting them very hard for certain regions. The company was placed on the Department of Commerce’s Entity List, meaning that US companies are barred from exporting products to Huawei. This sole fact by itself is already pretty devastating, as Huawei is blocked from conducting any business with Google, the company behind Android development and Google Play services (software is also considered an expor...

Facebook | March 02, 2020

Facebook on Monday disclosed it removed five online misinformation campaigns connected to foreign governments in February alone, highlighting the threat social media companies continue to face from governments seeking to sow discord and spread misinformation using Silicon Valley's most powerful networks. Facebook revealed the information, which it partially released last month, in its first monthly report about "coordinated inauthentic behavior," the platform's term for network...

GOVERNMENT BUSINESS

Labcon North America | October 22, 2021

Labcon North America , the world's leading manufacturer of Earth Friendly® laboratory disposables, announced today a $59.3 million contract award from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) on behalf of and in coordination with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The contract is for the domestic manufacturing expansion of pipette tips and tubes as a part of the supply chain for COVID-19 diagnostic testing. Labcon's pipette tips and tubes, currently in produ...

CoreView | September 30, 2020

CoreView, a SaaS Management Platform (SMP) for Microsoft 365, and other SaaS applications, and Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider®, today announced a partnership. Under the agreement, Carahsoft will serve as CoreView’s public sector distributor and make CoreView’s advanced SaaS management, security and adoption solutions available to the public sector through Carahsoft’s reseller partners and NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procureme...