“President Donald Trump has repeatedly and publicly played down Amazon’s prospects (he is apparently engaged in an ongoing vendetta against the company and its CEO Jeff Bezos). A speechwriter for former defense secretary Jim Mattis has told the Washington Post that Trump intervened to lock the company out of the contract.” MIT Tech Review: Microsoft has beaten Amazon to the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud computing contract. (This story is shared with the now nearly universal caveat: Expect lawsuits.)