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Tag: Microsoft

Why Firefox Ditched Yahoo To Make Google Its Default Search Engine
15Nov By RishabhNo Comments
Tech

Why Firefox Ditched Yahoo To Make Google Its Default Search Engine

[dropcap]F[/dropcap]irefox Quantum is here. Mozilla took some time to come up with something like that, something which is better, faster and lighter. The last couple of years have not been great for Firefox. Chrome browser, that took it back in the late 2011 now dominates the market with more than 60 percent, figures as suggested by StatCounter. With this release, Mozilla has set aside his deal with Yahoo that he made in 2014, to make it the default search engine provider for users in US, with others as options. With this not being the only noticeable change, Firefox has now started to keep in mind user's interests, which it seemed to have forgotten long ago about. “We looked at real world hardware to make Firefox look great on any display, and we made sure that Firefox looks an...
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Ola Ties Up With Microsoft For Connected Car Platform
8Nov By reutersNo Comments
FUNDING

Ola Ties Up With Microsoft For Connected Car Platform

Indian ride-hailing firm Ola said it has tied up with Microsoft to build a connected-car platform and will use the U.S tech giant’s Azure cloud-computing service to power its in-car entertainment offering. Microsoft is separately also in talks over a potential investment in Ola, a source told Reuters, declining to be named as the discussions are private. The new connected-vehicle platform, for cars that have internet access, will have features to aid navigation and to flag when vehicle maintenance is required, Ola said in a statement on Tuesday. “Both companies will collaborate to take this platform to car manufacturers globally to integrate with vehicle systems,” Ola said, making the announcement during a visit to India by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Ola, which has been locked in...
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Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates, Becomes The Richest Person- Again
28Oct By RishabhNo Comments
News

Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates, Becomes The Richest Person- Again

Amazon.com Inc's post-earnings surge has pushed Jeff Bezos to the top of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index for the first time, ahead of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates who had held the spot as the richest person on Earth for four years. Bloomberg Billionaire Index showed that Jeff Bezos added $10.4 billion to his net worth as Amazon shares rose to 13 percent. At the close of U.S. markets Friday, Bezos held a net worth of $93.8 billion, $5.1 billion ahead of Gates on the Bloomberg index, who was at $88.7 billion. Earlier this year, Bill Gates donated 64 million of the Microsoft's shares worth US$4.6 billion. Reports suggest that this was the largest gift that Gates made since 2000. Bill gates gave away $16 billion worth of Microsoft shares in 1999 and $5.1 billion a year lat...
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Microsoft Responded Quietly After Detecting Secret Database Hack In 2013
17Oct By reutersNo Comments
USA

Microsoft Responded Quietly After Detecting Secret Database Hack In 2013

Microsoft Corp’s secret internal database for tracking bugs in its own software was broken into by a highly sophisticated hacking group more than four years ago, according to five former employees, in only the second known breach of such a corporate database. The company did not disclose the extent of the attack to the public or its customers after its discovery in 2013, but the five former employees described it to Reuters in separate interviews. Microsoft declined to discuss the incident. The database contained descriptions of critical and unfixed vulnerabilities in some of the most widely used software in the world, including the Windows operating system. Spies for governments around the globe and other hackers covet such information because it shows them how to create tools for e...
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Zara Founder Amancio Ortega Becomes The World’s Richest Man, Beating Bill Gates
31Aug By PriyankaNo Comments
News

Zara Founder Amancio Ortega Becomes The World’s Richest Man, Beating Bill Gates

Spanish retailer Amancio Ortega became the world's richest person on Tuesday, claiming the crown for less than a day. Ortega, 81, is now worth an estimated $85 billion, according to Forbes’ real-time rankings of the world’s billionaires. His net worth is up $1.2 billion in the last month Amancio Ortega, founder of Zara's parent company Inditex SA and Europe's wealthiest person claimed the title of 'World's Richest Person' for a while on Tuesday. (more…)
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Google Forms Alliance With VMware And Pivotal In Cloud War With Amazon
30Aug By AdityaNo Comments
Tech, USA

Google Forms Alliance With VMware And Pivotal In Cloud War With Amazon

In the cloud wars, Google has teamed up with VMware and Pivotal its $2.8 billion valued spin-off against Amazon. Together they have come up with a solution called Kubernetes, a software project that started out as a way for Google to manage its massive server infrastructure and has since become a go-to tool for modern software developers . (more…)
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