Efforts by Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. to reach an accord with the U.S. Department of Justice on its now-secret information requests have stalled, Microsoft's general counsel, Brad Smith, said in a blog post
on Friday. "We are disappointed that these negotiations ended in failure," Smith wrote of negotiations with the government over a demand by the technology companies that they be allowed to reveal Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court orders they receive. http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2013/08/31/microsoft-google-hit-impasse-in-government-talks/
