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Representatives for Apple and Microsoft will be participating in a meeting with the Carin Alliance that's focused on making it easier for patients to access and share their medical information, reports CNBC . The meeting will focus on efforts to push a rule change proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services that would promote medical data interoperability. Ricky Bloomfield, a member of Apple's health team who formerly served as Duke University's Director of Mobile Strategy, will participate in the meeting by phone, according to a list of attendees published today [ PDF ]. Those who are in support of the change want to modernize patient access to data, as it continues to be common for medical facilities to provide health records via CD or Fax, which makes it difficult for people to switch providers and healthcare systems. From a PDF describing talking points for the meeting: It's imperative to note how important and time sensitive aggregated health information across multiple provider and health plan systems can be for patients going through catastrophic events.

Google and Activision Blizzard just announced a new multi-year partnership that will make Activision's popular esports broadcasts exclusive to YouTube. The deal follows a two-year, $90 million deal Activision Blizzard signed with Amazon's Twitch in January 2018 to make Twitch the official streaming platform of the Overwatch League, a professional gaming circuit with 20 international teams. Activision Blizzard will also use Google Cloud services to provide network infrastructure for its games. Activision says Google's cloud services will offer more stable connections for players around the world and provide more complex data analytics. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Google and Activision Blizzard have announced a multi-year deal that will make Activision's popular esports leagues exclusive to YouTube, and bring Activision's games to Google Cloud. Activision Blizzard is one of the largest video game makers in the world, with well-known franchises ranging from "Call of Duty" and "World of Warcraft" to "Candy Crush." More recently, the company has been investing millions into the growing esports industry, organizing leagues and competitions for professional gamers.

Facial recognition regulation talk by Microsoft and Google reignited debates over a moratorium this week, but strong protection from surveillance is needed.

VMware COO Sanjay Poonen sat down with Business Insider at the World Economic Forum in Davos to discuss the three areas where he says the software giant expects to see "a massive tsunami of opportunity" this year. Poonen said he sees VMware playing a critical role in key cloud trends related to cybersecurity, cloud applications and the ongoing cloud migration, which he and many experts expect to accelerate in the coming years. VMware's technology helped make it a major player in cloud computing, and a valued partner of the cloud giants, Amazon, Microsoft and Google. "There is going to be a fair amount of workload that is moved to the cloud," he told Business Insider. "So this whole idea of migration, cloud migrations, and we are at the epicenter of that because we've been a very significant player. Click here for more BI Prime stories. VMware has a commanding presence in the cloud that Chief Operating Officer Sanjay Poonen expects to become even more formidable in 2020. "We have two or three areas that are going to be big focuses for us that I think are massive tsunamis of opportunity," he told Business Insider at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

When the software behemoth reports its results Wednesday, Wall Street is ready for another strong quarter.

Apple has a new Wall Street-high price target of $400 per share from Wedbush analyst Dan Ives. Long-term iPhone sales growth from the 5G "super cycle" and continued expansion of Apple's Services business can push the tech giant to a $2 trillion valuation by the end of 2021, Ives said in a Thursday note. The company joins Microsoft , Alphabet , and Saudi Aramco as the only public companies with valuations greater than $1 trillion, and would become the first US firm to hit the $2 trillion level if Ives' prediction holds true. Watch Apple trade live here . Apple can leap to a $2 trillion market cap by the end of 2021, Wedbush analyst Dan Ives predicted on Thursday. The tech giant is already up nearly 10% in the year-to-date after an 86% gain in 2019, but Ives sees the company's upcoming 5G iPhones and growing services business driving shares higher over the next few years. The analyst set a new Wall Street-high price target for Apple stock in his latest note, lifting his target to $400 per share from $350. "While the stock has had a massive rally over the past year and thus far in 2020, we continue to believe this is a 'must own' stock into what we would characterize as a transformational 5G super cycle over the next 12 to 18 months with Apple being our favorite 5G play," Ives wrote.

Popular mobile video app TikTok said on Friday it has hired attorney Erich Andersen from Microsoft to serve as the company's global general counsel, reporting to president Alex Zhu. | January 24, 2020

Microsoft is setting a new standard for corporate climate targets. The technology company promised to remove all of the carbon that it’s ever put in the atmosphere -- going back to when it was founded in an Albuquerque garage in 1975. That includes $1 billion in carbon removal technologies and methods. Can it pull off such an ambitious plan? And will it force other corporates to follow? We'll discuss on this week's episode of The Energy Gang . Then, we'll look at a landmark climate case. Twenty-one young people who sued the federal government for the right to live in a stable climate prevailed and prevailed and prevailed…until they lost. A judge agreed with their case, but said the courts weren’t the place to remedy climate change. What does it mean for future litigation? Plus, we have a new member of the gang we’re going to meet: Ingrid Lobet, our senior editor. Make sure to follow her on Twitter . Resources: MIT Technology Review : Microsoft will invest $1 B in carbon reduction and removal tech Wall Street Journal : Microsoft Raises Stakes in Corporate Climate Pledge Race Vox : 21 Kids Sued the Government Over Climate Change AP: U.S.

The fight between Apple’s MacBook family and Microsoft’s Surface family is a slow-burn of intense competition. But Microsoft’s move at the end of last year may well prove to be a cunning plan that will give Surface an advantage.

Get ready for support calls when users see Bing results they never asked for.

Did Google Assassinate Wife Of Whistleblower Who Exposed The Search Engine? Via GreatGameIndia.com, A high-profile Google whistleblower who back in July testified before Congress that the search engine meddled in the 2016 presidential election on behalf of Hillary Clinton is now suggesting that the fatal car crash that killed his wife last month may not have been an accident. Did Google assassinate whistleblower’s wife who exposed the search engine? Google Whistleblower Dr. Robert Epstein Robert Epstein is an American psychologist, professor, author, and journalist. He earned his Ph.D. in psychology at Harvard University in 1981, was editor in chief of Psychology Today, a visiting scholar at the University of California, San Diego, and the founder and director emeritus of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies in Concord, MA. Criticism of Google In 2013, Epstein wrote in Time magazine that Google had “a fundamentally deceptive business model”. In 2015, he said that Google could rig the 2016 US presidential election and that search engine manipulation was “a serious threat to the democratic system of government”.

The HCL Microsoft Business Unit will create intellectual property extending the Microsoft platform for customer-specific scenarios.

A FortiGuard Labs Threat Analysis Introduction On patch Tuesday for January 2020, Microsoft disclosed a critical… | January 22, 2020

SARASOTA, Fla., Jan. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Data Masons, a Microsoft One Commercial Partner and EDI innovator, today shares its strategy across its EDI product line for the next generation on the cloud for the new year. The increasing adoption of cloud-based Microsoft ERP platforms…

Microsoft is open-sourcing an optimized version of Google's BERT that uses ONNX Runtime and CPUs or GPUs to speed language model performance.