The CEOs of Microsoft and Google are heading to the White House next week (GOOG, MSFT)

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• Tech executives including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are expected to attend a meeting with the Trump administration next week.
• The sessions will focus on jobs of the future in the technology space, a White House official said.
• President Donald Trump has had many run-ins with technology companies since he took office, including his accusations without evidence of bias by Alphabet’s Google, Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc and “trying to silence” people.

The Trump administration, which has had sometimes strained relations with high-technology companies, will meet with top tech executives next week to discuss innovation and future jobs, several companies attending and a White House official said on Thursday.

Chief executives expected to participate include Microsoft Corp’s Satya Nadella, Alphabet Inc’s Sundar Pichai, Qualcomm Inc’s Steven Mollenkopf and Oracle Corp’s Safra Catz, a White House official confirmed. Others have been invited but not yet confirmed they will attend the roundtable discussions.

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