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.
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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
In the battle for the first company to reach and sustain US$1-trillion in stock market value, don’t count out a come-from-behind victory. Apple has had a lock on its spot as the world’s most valuable public
On TalkCentral this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about the week’s big technology news – with a South African flavour. On the menu, a new submarine cable system – the first to cross
It’s becoming standard practice for US technology giants to follow the letter of European rulings and regulations without really changing their behaviour. Most recently, Facebook and Google have exhibited just a
Microsoft agreed to pay US$7.50-billion for GitHub earlier in June, but it wasn’t the only interested party. Google was in the running too, according to Diane Greene, head of the company’s cloud arm. “I wouldn’t
The world’s largest cloud computing provider, Amazon Web Services, has opened its first physical point of presence in South Africa. The company, which is owned by online retail giant Amazon.com, said