IT Pro News in Review: Google Campus closed, Microsoft hits $2 trillion, and UK cities lose millions
Catch up with the biggest headlines of the week in just two minutes
Welcome to IT Pro's News in Review, a weekly bitesize bulletin of the top tech stories of the week, for the week ending 25 June.
This episode:
- Google shuts its London startup campus
- Microsoft hits a market valuation of $2 trillion
- Hybrid working could cost UK city centres £322 million per month in lost revenue
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