DOD cancels $10 billion JEDI contract at center of Microsoft and Amazon feud

Igor Bonifacic

The Department of Defense is terminating its $ 10 billion cloud contract for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI). The Pentagon said it had “initiated contract termination procedures” in a press release shared Tuesday, stating that “the department has determined that the JEDI cloud contract is no longer meeting its requirements due to evolving requirements, … Read more

The Morning After: Amazon cancels its Lord of the Rings RPG

The Morning After

Amazon told Bloomberg that it canned its Lord of the Rings, developed with the help of China’s Leyou, after “being unable to secure terms” to continue its development. However, sources claim that Tencent’s recent acquisition of Leyou sparked a contractual dispute that ultimately brought the project to a standstill. Amazon Game Studios is having trouble … Read more