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Microsoft quietly cut under 1,000 jobs across its business this week, as it enters its new fiscal year (MSFT)
- Microsoft this week held layoffs, in what a spokesperson characterized as a small number of job cuts across multiple business units.
- The cuts come in at less than 1,000 jobs, according to a person familiar with the situation.
- Micro…
msft - Business Insider
3:56pm PDT - July 16th, 2020
With a next-gen Xbox just months away, Microsoft ends production on 2 major Xbox models (MSFT)
- With the next-generation Xbox game console scheduled to arrive this holiday season, Microsoft is paring down its portfolio of Xbox consoles in production.
- The Xbox One X and the Xbox One S All Digital Edition are both being phased out, with …
msft - Business Insider
11:57am PDT - July 16th, 2020
Microsoft's 'Netflix of gaming' service finally launches in September, and it'll give access to over 100 Xbox games from your phone, tablet, or console for $15/month (MSFT)
- This September, xCloud — Microsoft's Xbox-based game streaming service — is scheduled to launch, long after it was first announced.
- The service enables users to play dozens of Xbox games via the cloud, on smartphones and tablets. Any progres…
msft - Business Insider
10:00am PDT - July 16th, 2020
Top Amazon and Microsoft cloud partners say that customers have gone dark and deals have fallen through, as economic turbulence causes real anxiety for key players in the cloud wars (AMZN, MSFT, GOOG)
- The pandemic is generally considered a boon to the cloud market as the shift to remote work has driven huge surges in demand for cloud services. Top cloud providers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have benefitted.
- But some of their top pa…
msft - Business Insider
9:40am PDT - July 16th, 2020
BANK OF AMERICA: Buy these 14 stocks that are likely winners in the pandemic — and will benefit from the biggest trends that will define the future
- Bank of America strategist Haim Israel has rounded up the firm's biggest thematic bets for the future and named the stocks that could benefit from many of them at once.
- Owning these stocks could provide faster growth and an important source …
msft - Business Insider
5:02am PDT - July 15th, 2020
Nokia launches data centre networking tools, developed with Apple - Reuters India
Finland's Nokia launched a set of tools on Thursday for data centre networking, developed in cooperation with Apple Inc , to help companies to manage the growth in traffic as 5G and machine learning technologies roll out.
msft - Reuters9:11am PDT - July 9th, 2020
Nokia launches data centre networking tools, developed with Apple - Reuters
Finland's Nokia launched a set of tools on Thursday for data centre networking, developed in cooperation with Apple Inc, to help companies to manage the growth in traffic as 5G and machine learning technologies roll out.
msft - Reuters9:05am PDT - July 9th, 2020
New records show Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have thousands of previously unreported military and law enforcement contracts (GOOG, GOOGL, MSFT, AMZN)
- New research shows that Silicon Valley companies have thousands of previously-unreported subcontracts with the US military and federal law enforcement including ICE and the FBI.
- The subcontracts were surfaced through open records requests fi…
msft - Business Insider
10:27am PDT - July 8th, 2020
No, THIS is how much $10K worth of dot-com bubble stock is worth today
Last week, Hard Fork published an article: Here’s what $10,000 invested at the height of the dot-com bubble would be worth today. The idea was to build what would’ve been a typical stock portfolio in the lead up to Y2K and calculate its worth today, 20 years …
msft - The Next Web1:13am PDT - June 29th, 2020
Goldman Sachs raises its price target on Microsoft stock after telling investors to sell Slack amid the 'enduring battle' between the two (MSFT)
- Goldman Sachs raised its price target on Microsoft's stock and maintained its buy rating on Tuesday, as the company continues to look like a beneficiary from the changes in IT spending caused by the pandemic.
- Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs advised…
msft - Business Insider
12:19pm PDT - June 24th, 2020
Microsoft is acquiring startup CyberX to help secure Internet of Things devices used in factories, farms, and other industrial settings (MSFT)
- Microsoft announced Monday that it will acquire startup CyberX, which helps secure Internet of Things devices.
- The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it was estimated to be in the range of $165 million.
- Microsoft announced a …
msft - Business Insider
12:21pm PDT - June 22nd, 2020
Microsoft's CEO and CFO explained all the ways that the pandemic has affected the $1.3 trillion tech titan's business — and how it could change things going forward (MSFT)
- Microsoft reported strong financial results for the most recent quarter, despite the international public health crisis caused by the coronavirus.
- The company said the pandemic had a "minimal impact" to the overall business in the quarter, b…
msft - Business Insider
1:14pm PDT - April 30th, 2020
Tech companies are showing resilience during the coronavirus storm
The biggest tech companies in the world are shining during an otherwise harrowing earnings season, as cloud businesses get a boost from the spike in working from home and revenue stays resilient.
msft - CNN4:59am PDT - April 30th, 2020
Microsoft stock pumps after it sees two years of digital transformation in two months
Microsoft just dropped its earnings for the first quarter of 2020 and — as one might expect — worldwide coronavirus lockdowns were great for its bottom line. The Redmond tech giant posted $35 billion revenue and $10.8 billion net income in Q1, up 15% and 22% …
msft - The Next Web4:26am PDT - April 30th, 2020
Microsoft blames coronavirus-related supply chain constraints for its cloud capacity issues (MSFT)
- Microsoft said supply chain constraints caused by the coronavirus crisis delayed its spending on expanding cloud infrastructure.
- Those delays, plus an unprecendented surge in demand for its services, caused the company to struggle to keep up…
msft - Business Insider
2:24pm PDT - April 29th, 2020
A new survey shows how companies are using the cloud more than they originally planned as remote work surges, even as they race to contain their costs (AMZN, MSFT, GOOGL, GOOG)
- According to IT company Flexera's annial "State of the Cloud" report, 59% of enterprises expect usage of clouds like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud to be higher than originally planned before the coronavirus pandemic.
10:47am PDT - April 28th, 2020
Apps like Words with Friends and Houseparty saw a huge resurgence in March — here's the full list of apps users are downloading while stuck at home (GOOG, MSFT, ZOOM)
Scott Morgan/Reuters
- Communication tools like Zoom and Microsoft Teams have seen downloads spike as people are encouraged to stay in their homes due to the coronavirus.
- Some mobile games have also seen a boost from the coronavirus.
5:30am PDT - April 25th, 2020
The oldest relay race in the world just took place in 'Minecraft' on UPenn's painstakingly recreated virtual campus — here's what it was like (MSFT)
Minecraft/UPenn
- Students at the University of Pennsylvania recreated their campus on "Minecraft" after COVID-19 ended their semester early.
- On Friday, the annual Penn Relays, the oldest track event in the US, was held in "Minecraft."
5:01am PDT - April 25th, 2020
A Microsoft Word update finally puts an end to the ongoing debate about whether you should put 1 or 2 spaces after a period (MSFT)
- Microsoft Word will begin flagging two spaces after a period as an error, a long-running debate that's been met with both excitement and criticism.
- The company recently started testing the change in the desktop version of Word.
- Tho…
msft - Business Insider
2:04pm PDT - April 24th, 2020
Data center deals have hit nearly $15 billion this year, as Amazon and Microsoft race to boost their cloud capacity amid the pandemic. That's more than all the data center deals in 2019 combined. (MSFT, AMZN)
- More money has been spent on data center deals so far this year than all of last year combined, according to new market research.
- Specifically, data center deals this year have reached nearly $15 billion, while they were at just shy of $15 b…
msft - Business Insider
2:25pm PDT - April 23rd, 2020
Alibaba's $28 billion investment in cloud infrastructure will help it compete with US tech giants outside of China (BABA, MSFT, AMZN)
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba announced that it would invest RMB 200 billion ($28 billion) in building its cloud infrastructure over the next three years, according to TechCrunch. Jeff Zhang, president of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, said the investment wil…
msft - Business Insider7:08am PDT - April 21st, 2020
Judge puts Amazon's lawsuit challenging the Pentagon's $10 billion cloud contract award to Microsoft on hold until August (MSFT, AMZN)
- Amazon's lawsuit challenge the Pentagon's decision to award a $10 billion cloud contract to Microsoft is on hold until this summer after a federal judge on Friday granted the Department of Defense's request to remand the case.
- The department…
msft - Business Insider
9:48am PDT - April 20th, 2020
$416 million data analytics provider Domo is the most likely company to be acquired by a big player like Microsoft or Oracle in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, experts predict (DOMO, MSFT, ORCL)
- Big technology companies are expected to be looking to make acquisitions as the coronavirus crisis drives down valuations.
- Domo, a Utah-based data-analytics company, is perhaps the most likely acquisition target in the current environment, …
msft - Business Insider
9:44am PDT - April 20th, 2020
Microsoft President Brad Smith says the silver lining to the 'dangers' and 'hardship' of the coronavirus crisis is 'the extraordinary degree to which businesses have been able to sustain their operations' (MSFT)
Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled an initiative intended to promote biodiversity, including plans to build a "planetary computer" and protect more land than it uses by 2025. Microsoft started working on the effort before the coronavirus caused a widespread publ…
msft - Business Insider10:31am PDT - April 15th, 2020
Video game ratings will now warn parents about 'loot boxes' (MSFT, SNE, NTDOY, ATVI, EA)
Video games are assigned ratings, just like movies, ranging from "E for everyone" to "T for teen" to "AO" — "Adults Only," the "X" rating of games. Game ratings are determined by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB), an industry group that oversees…
msft - Business Insider11:32am PDT - April 13th, 2020
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2:52pm PDT - July 16th, 2023
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2:52pm PDT - July 16th, 2023
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12:16pm PDT - July 14th, 2023
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12:16pm PDT - July 14th, 2023
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12:16pm PDT - July 14th, 2023
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12:16pm PDT - July 14th, 2023
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12:16pm PDT - July 14th, 2023
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12:15pm PDT - July 14th, 2023
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12:15pm PDT - July 14th, 2023
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12:15pm PDT - July 14th, 2023
RT @msftsecurity: Threat intelligence researchers like Dustin Duran say attackers “think in graphs” because of the way they link sequences…
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12:15pm PDT - July 14th, 2023
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12:14pm PDT - July 14th, 2023
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3:12pm PDT - July 13th, 2023
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3:12pm PDT - July 13th, 2023
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3:12pm PDT - July 13th, 2023
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3:11pm PDT - July 13th, 2023
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3:11pm PDT - July 13th, 2023
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3:08pm PDT - July 13th, 2023
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3:07pm PDT - July 13th, 2023
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3:07pm PDT - July 13th, 2023
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3:07pm PDT - July 13th, 2023
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3:06pm PDT - July 13th, 2023
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3:06pm PDT - July 13th, 2023
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3:06pm PDT - July 13th, 2023
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3:06pm PDT - July 13th, 2023
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11:35pm PDT - July 12th, 2023
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11:35pm PDT - July 12th, 2023
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11:35pm PDT - July 12th, 2023
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11:29pm PDT - July 12th, 2023
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11:27pm PDT - July 12th, 2023
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11:24pm PDT - July 12th, 2023