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By Elisa Microsoft laid off about 1,000 employees across several divisions this week, Axios reported on Tuesday, citing a source, making it the latest US technology company to cut jobs or slow hiring …
Read More By Elisa Microsoft missed estimates for quarterly revenue on Tuesday, hurt by a stronger dollar, slowing sales of PCs and lower advertiser spending. The results amounted to a slight miss at a …
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By Manskar GitHub’s human resources boss has resigned over the company’s firing of a Jewish employee who warned his colleagues in Washington to watch out for Nazis. The Microsoft-owned platform …
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By Vega Gamers trying to get their hands on the new PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X look likely to be stuck playing the waiting game instead. The next-generation video-game …
Read More By Vega The Department of Defense on Friday reiterated its stance that Microsoft was the best recipient of its $10 billion cloud-computing contract, dealing a blow to Jeff Bezos’ industry …
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By Smith Google says it will no longer build custom artificial intelligence tools for speeding up oil and gas extraction, separating itself from cloud computing rivals Microsoft and Amazon. A …
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By Vega Microsoft Corp. said Monday its video calling platform Skype saw a 70 percent jump in usage in March from a month earlier, as more people shift to working …
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By Nicolas Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates, who made the company one of the world’s most valuable technology firms, stepped down from the board on Friday to focus on philanthropic …
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By Eliss WASHINGTON — A new lawsuit accuses several of the world’s largest technology firms of knowingly profiting from children laboring under brutal conditions in African cobalt mines. The suit, …
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By Manskar Microsoft unveiled its “fastest, most powerful” Xbox gaming system yet Thursday — and it looks straight out of a sci-fi movie. With a vertical design resembling the black …
Read More By Alisa WASHINGTON — Amazon is suing the Pentagon over a $10 billion cloud-computing contract awarded to Microsoft. Amazon said it filed a legal complaint Friday with the U.S. Court …
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By Vega Online retailing giant Amazon has a new strategy for dealing with threats to its cash-cow cloud business: Pretend they don’t exist. At the Seattle-based company’s annual conference to …
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By Brooke Russian hackers are targeting anti-doping organizations after the country was banned from the 2020 Olympics, according to a new report. Microsoft said this week that it has been …
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By Yaron A hacking group that is apparently linked to the Iranian government has carried out a cyber attack against a US presidential campaign — as well as current and …
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By Vega SAN FRANCISCO — When Liz O’Sullivan was hired at the New York City-based artificial intelligence company Clarifai in 2017, she felt lucky to find work at the intersection …
Read More By Lia Microsoft contractors have been listening to Skype calls — including personal conversations and even phone sex — made through the app’s translation function, according to a report Wednesday. …
Read More By Chris Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said in an interview that the biggest mistake he ever made was missing out on creating what Android ultimately became. By that, he means …
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Microsoft is interested in working with Indian entrepreneurs to connect rural areas with technology and new economy, chief executive officer Satya Nadella said on Monday. Nadella, who was on a …
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Intending to become a partner in the ambitious Digital India programme, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella today said his company will take low-cost broadband technology to some five lakh villages across …
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Windows 10 is under attack over default settings which users say compromise their privacy, just days after the operating system’s successful launch saw more than 14 million installs in the …
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