{"id":1014930,"date":"2026-06-16T11:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T06:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014930"},"modified":"2026-06-16T11:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T06:21:11","slug":"microsoft-shareholders-sue-tech-giant-hiding-slow-cloud-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/16\/microsoft-shareholders-sue-tech-giant-hiding-slow-cloud-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft shareholders sue tech giant \u2018hiding\u2019 slow cloud growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is facing a legal battle after shareholders filed a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing the tech giant of \u2018fraud\u2019. The suit alleges that Microsoft inflated its stock price by hiding a slowdown in its crucial Azure cloud business while quietly pouring billions of extra dollars into artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. According to a report by news agency Reuters, the lawsuit has been filed in a Seattle federal court by a Michigan-based pension fund, the City of St. Clair Shores Police and Fire Retirement System.<\/p>\n<p>Why shareholders have sued Microsoft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is facing a legal battle after shareholders filed a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing the tech giant of \u2018fraud\u2019. The suit alleges that Microsoft inflated its stock price by hiding a slowdown in its crucial Azure cloud business while quietly pouring billions of extra dollars into artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. According to a report by news agency Reuters, the lawsuit has been filed in a Seattle federal court by a Michigan-based pension fund, the City of St. Clair Shores Police and Fire Retirement System. Why shareholders have sued Microsoft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014932,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014930\/revisions\/1014932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}