November 29th, 2018The technology giant Microsoft has Corp surpassed Apple Inc to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company with a $300 billion rout.
After becoming the top company in the world, Microsoft shares rose 0.6 percent Tuesday, pushing the company's market value to $828.1 billion at the close. The last time Microsoft's market...
November 20th, 2018Amazon has introduced a new feature to its device Alexa, and now, it would be able to even make Skype calls.
Your Echo/Plus/Dot, et al. will be able to do so via voice using a command like, “Alexa Skype Mom.” Echos with displays, meanwhile, will offer up the full video Skype experience. Users can also ask Alexa to dial a phone...
November 19th, 2018Microsoft has announced its plans to shut down HockeyApp and replace it with Visual Studio App Center. The company had acquired the startup behind HockeyApp back in 2014, and if you’re still using the app, you must know that the service will officially shut down on November 16, 2019.
HockeyApp was a service that let you distribute...
November 15th, 2018The international technology giant Microsoft has reportedly acquired an Austin-based software developer called Xoxco. This acquisition has marked the fourth AI-related company Microsoft has purchased this year.
Founded in 2009, Xoxco has raised $1.5 million. It began working on bots in 2013, and is credited with developing the first...
November 3rd, 2018Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd.’s digital entertainment platform ZEE5 along with Microsoft Azure is all set to host a library of multi-genre and multi-language content.
Through this continued association between both the companies, ZEE5 is planning to leverage Microsoft Azure solutions to empower its platform on an...
October 27th, 2018The software giant Microsoft has reportedly reacquired its position as the second most valuable US company on Friday. This happened after Amazon showed a disappointing quarterly report as the company wiped $65 billion off the online retailer's market capitalization.
The company that tops the list is Apple with over $1 trillion after...
October 16th, 2018The co-founder of software giant Microsoft Paul Allen has passed away in Seattle at the age of 65. Along with Microsoft, Allen also founded a privately held company in 1986 called Vulcan.
It was two weeks ago that Allen tweeted and disclosed that the cancer, for which he was successfully treated nine years ago, had returned. He also...
October 9th, 2018Microsoft is gearing up to fight with Google and start its own game streaming service, basically, an Xbox game streaming service, designed to bring the console’s titles to a slew of different platforms.
The service is the latest offering to offer gamers the promise of cross-platform autonomy. The public trials of the service will be...
October 8th, 2018Windows 10 was made available to the users only a few days ago and has the update has now been suspended citing various reports of user data loss.
“We have paused the rollout of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809) for all users as we investigate isolated reports of users missing some files after updating,” the company...
September 29th, 2018Artificial Intelligence startup Netradyne that is concerned with driver and commercial fleet safety has reportedly raised funds amounting to $21 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Microsoft’s corporate venture arm M12 (formerly Microsoft Ventures).
It also saw participation from backers like Reliance...
