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BMO Capital Markets chief investment strategist Brian Belski on his outlook for the big tech stocks. and are going head-to-head over new, that would help digital media companies and newspapers negotiate with &nbsp;companies.The&nbsp;Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, which has been introduced in the House and Senate, would allow small news organizations to negotiate fees with the Big Tech companies of the world -- like Google and Facebook -- that share their content&nbsp;for free.TickerSecurityLastChangeChange %ALPHABET, INC.2,050.00-50.54-2.41%MICROSOFT CORP.235.75-1.38-0.58%FACEBOOK, INC.268.40-5.48-2.00%Microsoft has expressed&nbsp;support for&nbsp;the legislation while Google is pushing back against its passage in both chambers, and the two companies on Friday published statements attacking one another for their respective stances on the bill.Brad Smith, Microsoft's president, took aim at what he described as Google's dominance in the digital advertising market&nbsp;in his written&nbsp;testimony for Friday's hearing on competition before the&nbsp;House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law. He noted that Google captured "about a third of all digital advertising revenue in the U.S. in the last year."Google "is the dominant technology firm in virtually every corner of the digital advertising ecosystem," Smith said, naming&nbsp;its Search Ads, Ad Tech, Ad Exchange, Ad Tech Tools and Global Consumer Dataset arms as examples of the tech giant's broad reach in the digital ad market."News organizations have ad inventory to sell, but they can no longer sell directly to those who want to place ads. Instead, for all practical purposes, they must use Google’s tools, operate on Google’s ad exchanges, contribute data to Google’s operations, and pay Google money," he said.Smith added that&nbsp;"Google has effectively transformed itself into the 'front page'&nbsp;for news, owning the reader relationship and relegating news content on their properties to a commodity input," and suggested Congress "move&nbsp;forward with the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act and enable news organizations to negotiate collectively with online content distributors."Kent Walker, Google senior vice president of global affairs,&nbsp;responded to Smith's testimony in a Friday statement listing the company's efforts to support digital journalism, including a $1 billion investment to license news content through its News Showcase feature over three years.Walker then criticized "vulnerabilities" in Microsoft's systems after the software company announced in December that SolarWinds hackers had gained access to some of its source code used to build software products."Microsoft&nbsp;is the second-largest company in the U.S. by market capitalization and the owner of LinkedIn, MSN,&nbsp;Microsoft&nbsp;News and Bing, all of which are places where news is regularly consumed and shared," Walker said. "But their track record is spotty: They have paid out a much smaller amount to the news industry than we have.&nbsp;And given the chance to support or fund their own journalists,&nbsp;Microsoft&nbsp;."He added that Google will "continue to collaborate with news organizations and policymakers around the world to enable a strong future for journalism."The spat between the two companies and House Judiciary hearing comes after&nbsp;Australia and France&nbsp;&nbsp;Big Tech companies to consider paying for news that they showcase on their respective websites to help fund the news industry.Google&nbsp;announced agreements in February&nbsp;to pay publishers in Australia after the country passed a law that would allow the country's government to set the price of deals with news outlets if negotiations between tech companies and publishers failed.The company had initially threatened to pull completely pull its search engine feature in&nbsp;Australia&nbsp;if the country passed the law.Fox Business' Hillary Vaughn contributed to this report.

BMO Capital Markets chief investment strategist Brian Belski on his outlook for the big tech stocks. and are going head-to-head over new, that would help digital media companies and newspapers negotiate with &nbsp;companies.The&nbsp;Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, which has been introduced in the House and Senate, would allow small news organizations to negotiate fees with the Big Tech companies of the world -- like Google and Facebook -- that share their content&nbsp;for free.TickerSecurityLastChangeChange %ALPHABET, INC.2,050.00-50.54-2.41%MICROSOFT...

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