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Business Matters: Microsoft executive backs Australian government in tech war

Microsoft executive backs Australian government in tech war

12/02/2021 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Microsoft executive backs Australian government in tech war

Brad Smith says Australia's proposals strengthen democracy by supporting a free press.

The Microsoft President has supported the Australian government in a row about online giants paying for news that appears in searches, or is shared on their platforms.

The President of Microsoft, Brad Smith, says Australia's proposals that tech giants pay for news appearing on their services, strengthen democracy by supporting a free press. We hear more from Rebecca Klar, a tech journalist from The Hill. As the second cricket test match in this series between India and England starts this weekend, the BBC's Rahul Tandon reports that more Indian players are now coming from smaller towns than bigger cities, and how that reflects a broader economic change taking place in the country. It's an interesting time for dating services with the pandemic throwing the world of romance into disarray; our reporter Deborah Weitzmann has been to meet some people looking for love in the time of Covid. And we're joined throughout the programme by Michelle Jamrisko, Blomberg's senior Asia economy reporter who is based in Singapore and economist, Tony Nash from Complete Intelligence; he's based in Houston. (Picture of Microsoft logo on a mobile phone, via Getty Images).

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