Economics
Older Tech Giants Score Wins With Trump Ties
- IBM, Microsoft, Oracle enjoy broad access to the White House
- Google, Facebook executive branch lobbying lower amid techlash
Pedestrians walk past IBM's offices in New York.
Photographer: Craig Warga/Bloomberg
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President Donald Trump often hurls insults at internet companies Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Twitter Inc., accusing them of bias against him and others with conservative views.
While the platforms are some of the president’s favorite corporate targets, another group of older tech companies is working the back channels in some of the White House’s most powerful offices -- and often getting results.