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Microsoft and Oracle gang up against Amazon in the cloud
Microsoft and Oracle have reached an agreement to make their two cloud computing services work together with high-speed links between their data centers. Read more…
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HK enterprises want AI to augment jobs, not kill them
Hong Kong enterprises aren’t ready for AI yet, but once they are, the good news for employees is their managers won’t replace them: Microsoft-IDC survey Read more…
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Microsoft tops $1 trillion, looks to the cloud
Microsoft Corp on Wednesday briefly topped $1 trillion in value for the first time after executives predicted continued growth for its cloud Read more…
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FIRA WIRE DAY 1 & 2: Microsoft, Jio, Ooredoo, Openwave
News from MWC 2019, Day Two: Microsoft goes mixed reality; Jio future-proofs network; Ooredoo tags Ericsson for 5G and Openwave reduces RAN congestion. Read more…
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Microsoft meets Pope to discuss ethics of AI
Microsoft President Brad Smith met Pope Francis to discuss the ethical use of AI and ways to bridge the digital divide between rich and poor nations. Read more…
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Microsoft Corp’s Bing search engine blocked in China
Microsoft Corp’s Bing search engine has been blocked in China, making it the latest foreign technology service to be shut down behind the country’s Great Firewall. Read more…
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Cloud parking solution for world’s longest sea bridge a first
Following the opening of the world’s longest sea bridge that connects 68 million people across Hong Kong, Macau and the 11 mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area, Wilson Parking and Microsoft join hands to Read more…
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Microsoft pips Apple in market capitalization stakes
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp’s stock market value closed above Apple Inc’s for the first time in eight years on Friday as the Windows maker benefited from growth in cloud computing while Apple was Read more…
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Microsoft chatbot Xiaoice is now a fashion designer, apparently
Microsoft announced that its Chinese AI chatbot Xiaoice, is now ostensibly a fashion designer, having developed new prints for the fashion industry by partnering with CTIC (China Textile Information Center) and CTDC (China Textiles Development Read more…
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Bill Gates unveils next-gen toilet in China (don’t laugh)
BEIJING (Reuters) – US billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates unveiled on Tuesday in Beijing a futuristic toilet that doesn’t need water or sewers and uses chemicals to turn human waste into fertilizer. The Microsoft Corp co-founder, Read more…