Panos Panay Taking A Board Seat At Sonos
Yup, nothing strange about it. It’s actually pretty normal for high-ranking officials to join other companies in the Board of Directors. Panos Panay could be doing the same. The …
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Microsoft Paid Almost $14 Million In Bug Bounties Last Year
Security research remains as vital a component of a modern computing experience. And unlike many other companies, Microsoft is taking a much more proactive approach. In fact, so much …
Intel Being Investigated For Fraud
Things continue to get worse for Intel. There is a lot going on in the world of Intel. The chip giant is playing catch up with AMD in terms …
Microsoft Closing Its Retail Stores Across The World
2020 is relentless! Microsoft has announced a strategic change to its retail operations that will see it close down almost all of its physical retail stores across the planet. …
Microsoft Market Cap May Hit $2 Trillion In Two Years
Something about the sky being the limit? If things go according to plan, Microsoft could be the first company to breach the $2 trillion market cap mark. And that …
Microsoft Racks Up $35 Billion In Q3 2020 Revenue
Microsoft is here with its latest quarterly earnings report, for the quarter ending on March 31, 2020. And the numbers show that the technology giant made a total of …
Why Microsoft Should Really Disclose Azure Numbers
About time! Microsoft delivered yet another stellar second quarter this week, with cloud continuing on with its momentum. However, when it comes Azure numbers, the company still doesn’t paint …
Azure Up 62%, As Surface Sales Near $2 Billion
By now, we all know where the priorities lie for Microsoft. It’s cloud, cloud, cloud, some more cloud, and then the rest of the good stuff like Windows, Surface, …
Revenue Up 14% In Microsoft Q2 2020 Earnings
Any early guesses which lineups put on a good show? Microsoft has announced its quarterly earnings, this time for Q2 2020, which translates to the second quarter of its …
Apple Beats Microsoft’s 1.5 Billion Devices Milestone
Microsoft has long bragged about its 1.5 billion active devices milestone, but we have entrant in this club. Apple has just beat Redmond with its fleet of devices that …
Big 3 Cloud Infrastructure Earnings Hit $22 Billion This Quarter
If you thought this quarter could not get any more impressive, then how is this for amazement. The combined cloud infrastructure earnings of the Big 3 cloud providers reached …
Microsoft Invests $1 Billion On AI That Mimics The Brain
As Winnie the Pooh would say, think, think, think! Microsoft has sunk a titanic $1 billion in an artificial intelligence lab that is working on technology that can mimic …
Cloud Infrastructure Services Spend Up By 37.6% In Q2 2019
Momentous. The worldwide spend on cloud infrastructure services grew by a very impressive 37.6% year-on-year in Q2 2019, to reach the mark of $26.3 billion. Registering an $7.2 billion …
Microsoft, Once Again, Posts Record First Quarter Results
Microsoft released its quarterly earnings report today, and the numbers are good! The firm reported growth in several areas for the second quarter of its 2019 fiscal year. Or, …
Microsoft Shares Slip 4% Due To Azure Slowdown
Run for the hills? Not quite yet. Microsoft shares took a brief tumble in trading today, as Azure optimists who were hopeful of another near-doubling of the business showed …
Microsoft Azure Revenue Growth Slows
Or should we say, flattens out. Microsoft revealed its quarterly earnings figure today, and though it largely met targets, Azure revenue flatlined as revenue growth slowed down. The flagship …
Kenya Government Considers Dropping Microsoft Azure
More news from Africa. This time not so good. There is talk that Kenya government is considering dropping Microsoft Azure following website suspensions that continue to rage on. Even …
Azure Revenue Growth Was 76% Last Quarter
The Microsoft Azure platform is still the king for Redmond based technology giant, even as it experienced its biggest slowdown in three years. Or since the company started posting …
Microsoft Q1 2019 Revenue Soars To $29.1 Billion
With cloud and gaming spearheading growth for the technology giant. As promised, Microsoft is here with its Q1 2019 earnings reports, with the numbers painting a very interesting picture. …
Microsoft Posts $30.1 Billion In Q4 Revenue
It’s that time of the year again. That time when Microsoft reveals its quarterly results. And this time around, the company had some splendid numbers to post. Revenue increased …
Microsoft Sees Massive Net Income Increase
Cloud services have, once again, taken the spotlight for Microsoft, as the company reported massive net income increase for the third quarter of the fiscal year 2018. Windows and …
Microsoft Loses 12 Cents On Every Windows Phone Sold
No one ever said that the mobile market was an easy fish to fry. Microsoft is learning this first hand, as both Google and Apple continue to make steady …
Microsoft Earnings Reveal $21.7 Billion Total Revenue
The Redmond based technology giant has released its financial results for the FY15 Q3, that’s third quarter of the fiscal year 2015, and total revenue came in at $21.7 …
Satya Nadella Now The Highest Paid CEO In United States
Satya Nadella replaced Steve Ballmer in February 2014, and since then he has tried to push the company towards a slightly different approach, one with more openness towards rival …
Surface Creator Terms The $900 Million Writedown A Valuable Lesson
So this happened. Microsoft unexpectedly announced a new Surface tablet, the Surface 3, earlier today. And this successor to the Surface 2 is set to be available in early …
Bill Gates Named The Richest Person In The World, Again
Good old Bill is in the news again. Forbes just released their rich list for the year, and Bill Gates ended up being the richest individual on it for …
Week In Review (Jan 26 – Jan 30)
Week In Review returns with a vengeance! While Windows 10 was still the primary focus all month around, Microsoft made movements in other several other areas — from announcing …
Nokia Q4 2014 Results Show A Sharp Increase In Profits
Microsoft had a perfectly fine quarter in mobile, moving 10.5 million Lumia handsets, but guess which company found even bigger success. Nokia recorded a massive increase in profits. The …
Microsoft Q2 Earnings Reveal $26.5 Billion In Revenue
Final quarter earnings are always interesting, and for Microsoft the second quarter earnings brought in a mixed bag in terms of numbers and strategy. A really mixed bag at …
The IRS Files A Legal Complaint Against Steve Ballmer
lowdown on this, but Microsoft, obviously, does not allow executives to testify without an agreement. The software titan is already in discussion with the IRS for allowing these high …