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Microsoft offers cloud security advice (iHotDesk)
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has offered a number of tips for firms looking to bolster their cloud service’s security in the run up to the GigaOM Structure: Europe conference. Bosses at the Seattle-based firm said all of its products are designed and built using it’s own in-house Security Development Lifecycle. Not only does this allow an extensive auditing process to take place, but it permits for a forensic analysis to take place if something does go wrong in the future. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) also designs and builds its own data centres and, although this is slightly out of reach for most small and medium-sized enterprises, simply ensuring your outsourcing partner has stringent defence policies is likely to be enough to protect your information.

Google co-founder drops $250K on a hamburger (BizJournals)
Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) co-founder Sergey Brin pulled some pocket change to back the world’s first lab-grown hamburger. Brin’s $250,000 in funding went to physiologist Dr. Mark Post at Maastricht University in The Netherlands to grow 20,000 muscle fibers from cow stem cells in a three-month period, according to U.K. newspaper The Guardian. The objective is to create meat that is biologically identical to beef but grown in a lab rather than in a field as part of a cow.

Former Microsoft manager accused of raping office custodian (KiroTV)
A former Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) senior programming manager has been charged with raping a woman who worked as a custodian in his Redmond office. Prosecutors say Vineet Kumar Srivastava, 36, was on the third floor of Building 27 when he motioned for the custodian to follow him to his office. She did, thinking he needed something cleaned or the trash taken out. As soon as she entered his office, Srivastava pulled her blouse down and made a sexual comment; then he picked up his cellphone and started showing pornographic images, according to court documents.