Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the company’s bid to acquire the US assets of ByteDance’s TikTok was the “strangest thing” he’s ever worked on.
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Promoted | Millions of people in South Africa have been working from home – or outside of the traditional office environment – for 18 months now. By Microsoft South Africa’s Colin Erasmus.
The selloff in the largest technology stocks is evoking memories of September 2020, when the Nasdaq 100 Stock Index tumbled nearly 13% over a three-week span.
Bill Gates raised more than $1-billion in corporate funding for Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, drawing on fellow billionaires to rally support for some of the world’s most demanding clean-energy projects.
Chat platform Discord has raised $500-million in a new funding round led by investment firm Dragoneer Investment Group.
Microsoft will conduct an up-to-$60-billion share buyback programme, raise its quarterly dividend by 11% and appoint company President Brad Smith as vice chairman.
Microsoft has warned some of its Azure cloud computing customers that a flaw discovered by security researchers could have allowed hackers access to their data.
Promoted | The mass adoption of cloud services and the pressure to consolidate vendors is creating the risk of security monocultures that could put organisations at greater risk. By Mimecast’s Brian Pinnock.
Microsoft has announced that the next major version of Windows will be available for installation starting on 5 October, though not all users will be eligible to get it on launch – if they can get it at all.
Researchers who discovered a massive flaw in the main databases stored in Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform have urged all users to change their digital access keys, not just the 3 300 it notified this week.