Microsoft’s search engine #Bing is getting more popular in #China, but its success (& being the only Western search engine left there) comes at a cost. Ryan Gallagher shares his investigation into MSFT’s operations in China on the Big Take pod. Listen: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

NEW COVER: Microsoft built a business where Facebook and Google couldn't, but in doing so has helped Beijing maintain its great firewall trib.al/XRPivKQ

US Senator Mark Warner calls on Microsoft to consider pulling its search platform Bing out of China after our story revealing how it censors info on human rights & democracy. “US companies should not be facilitating PRC censorship," Warner says: bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

New: US private equity firm Francisco Partners says it's no longer the owner of troubled technology vendor Sandvine, which was blacklisted by the US government earlier this year for supplying mass surveillance & censorship technology: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Technology company Sandvine to cease operating in 50+ countries, replace CEO, & change its name after years of criticism over its sales of censorship & surveillance technology to authoritarian governments. Move follows multiple exposés by Bloomberg revealing the company's

New: Documents reveal a comprehensive Russian hacking campaign targeting Georgia for espionage & sabotage. Energy grid, central bank, telcos, finance ministry, foreign ministry were compromised in a years-long secret campaign that began in 2017. Pertinent this week amid elections

I have a new story out today about a remarkable Dutch cybersecurity expert who helped defend thousands of organizations from attack -- but also led a secret life as a criminal who hacked & extorted companies internationally: bloomberg.com/features/2024-…