Segments From This Episode

• Is the Microsoft antitrust case reminiscent of the Google case?

  by Nova Safo

  Federal regulators have opened a wide-ranging antitrust probe into Microsoft’s business practices, with special attention being paid to the company’s remote computing business — the cloud.

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• Construction spending increased more than expected in October, mostly thanks to housing

  by Caleigh Wells

  

  Meanwhile, commercial and government construction spending actually fell.

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• Unpacking the political crisis in France

  France’s prime minister has used special powers to force through his budget without a vote in parliament, and opposition parties are threatening to back a no-confidence motion. The BBC’s Andrew Harding reports.

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• On jobs and the use of AI

  by Meghan McCarty Carino

  Ozge Demirci, assistant professor at Imperial College London Business School, coauthored a recent report that shows thousands of new online job posts requiring some form of artificial intelligence skill. We’ll hear more from today’s episode of “Marketplace Tech.”

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