Microsoft is paying nearly $70 billion for Activision Blizzard as it seeks an edge in the fiercely competitive businesses of mobile gaming and virtual-reality technology.
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Read More »January 18, 2022 Comments Off on Microsoft buys game maker Activision Blizzard for about $70B
Microsoft is paying nearly $70 billion for Activision Blizzard as it seeks an edge in the fiercely competitive businesses of mobile gaming and virtual-reality technology.
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Read More »October 25, 2021 Comments Off on Microsoft: Russian-backed hackers targeting cloud services
Microsoft says the same Russia-backed hackers responsible for the 2020 SolarWinds breach continue to attack the global technology supply chain.
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Read More »July 6, 2021 Comments Off on Pentagon cancels disputed JEDI cloud contract with Microsoft
The Pentagon said Tuesday it canceled a disputed cloud-computing contract with Microsoft that could eventually have been worth $10 billion.
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Read More »January 16, 2020 Comments Off on Johns Hopkins startups get boost from Microsoft pilot program
Startups with Johns Hopkins University’s FastForward program for entrepreneurs have received funding, software licenses, support and more from Microsoft as part of a unique pilot program with the technology giant. The pilot program includes five Johns Hopkins startups receiving funding ...
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Read More »November 26, 2019 Comments Off on Amazon lawsuit against Pentagon seen as an uphill fight
Amazon.com will likely argue that meddling by President Donald Trump cost the company a cloud-computing contract worth as much as $10 billion as it seeks to overturn a Pentagon decision to award the work to arch-rival Microsoft. Yet Amazon faces ...
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Read More »August 4, 2017 Comments Off on Microsoft to scale back on paying hourly for legal services
As startups and other small companies look for creative ways to tackle the large bills for legal services, at least one major corporation is going down that same path.
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Read More »December 18, 2015 Comments Off on Damascus man pleads guilty in $100M software piracy case
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Six people pleaded guilty to charges related to more than $100 million in stolen software such as Windows XP that authorities said was one of the largest such piracy schemes prosecuted by the U.S. government. Tammy ...
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Read More »October 19, 2015 Comments Off on Hopkins, Microsoft to develop app for ICU management
Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine have developed a tablet app to track the needs of patients in intensive care units. Now, they’ll be building on that work through a partnership with Microsoft. The computing giant will work with the Johns ...
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Read More »October 6, 2015 Comments Off on Microsoft unveils new Surface laptop, other updates
NEW YORK — Microsoft is doubling down on its Surface devices business, unveiling a new laptop Tuesday alongside an updated tablet. Even as Microsoft has positioned the Surface as a laptop replacement, it’s making a separate Surface laptop model, the ...
Read More »December 4, 2014 Comments Off on Barnes & Noble ends Nook deal with Microsoft
(AP) Bookseller Barnes & Noble said Thursday it is ending its commercial agreement with Microsoft for its Nook e-book reader ahead of its planned Nook spinoff. The news came as the largest U.S. traditional bookseller reported second-quarter net income that ...
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