Once upon a time, Facebook allowed academic researchers access to its data. We know how that story ends: with the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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Microsoft has warned that cyber-attackers linked to the Russian military are once again targeting American political groups, in a potential attempt to manipulate and disrupt the US midterm elections in November.
Workplace chat software maker Slack Technologies has continued its fervent pace of fundraising with a US$427-million round of investment.
Google wants to get back into China, and is laying the groundwork for a key part of the initiative: bringing its cloud business to the world’s second largest economy.
Apple may not have surpassed US$1-trillion in market value in the wake of this week’s solid results, but it remains the world’s biggest company – for now.
Facebook has racked up plenty of milestones in its pioneering journey. Now the social media giant is poised to add one it would doubtless rather avoid: the biggest stock market wipe-out in American history.
Microsoft’s earnings report and forecast cheered investors, providing further evidence the company can increase cloud sales and squeeze more profit from the area while cutting into Amazon.com’s massive industry lead.
Microsoft’s cloud-fuelled turnaround persisted in the fiscal fourth quarter, when sales and profit got a boost from customers signing up for more Internet-based storage, processing and Office productivity software.
Clad in jeans and a gray sweatshirt, Amy Hood stands before a room of 140 Microsoft recruits. The feeling in the air is a bit like the first day of school, and new hires are taking selfies outside in front of a big Microsoft logo.
Microsoft is going for the low-end of the personal computing market with a smaller, cheaper Surface Go tablet that takes on Apple’s cheapest iPads. The Surface Go has a 10-inch screen, about the same size as the