Microsoft is confident its search product Bing can fill the gap in Australia if Google pulls its search over required payments to media outlets, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday.
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Salesforce.com’s US$27.7-billion takeover of Slack Technologies represents co-founder Marc Benioff’s most aggressive effort yet to challenge reigning software marker Microsoft.
Six weeks after announcing to the world it was in talks to buy TikTok, Microsoft comes out to tell us it didn’t get the gig. CEO Satya Nadella dodged a bullet. Now the gun is aimed directly at Oracle and its chairman, Larry Ellison.
Let’s be blunt. It makes no sense for Microsoft to buy TikTok. Even founder Bill Gates, who no longer has an active role, sees TikTok as a “poisoned chalice”. By Tim Culpan.
Twitter has expressed an interest in buying video platform TikTok’s US operations, it has been reported. The video-sharing app is already the subject of takeover discussions with Microsoft.
To achieve unique results in the technology era, you can’t keep thinking about data the same old way. Instead, you need to consider the unique ways you can harness it to provide equally unique solutions to your clients. By FNB’s Mark Nasila.
After finessing regulators and stroking egos to get this deal done, Microsoft will rightfully expect a big discount if it buys TikTok. The size of that discount will prove CEO Satya Nadella’s worth.
US President Donald Trump agreed to allow Microsoft to negotiate the acquisition of popular short-video app TikTok if it could secure a deal in 45 days, three people familiar with the matter said.
Microsoft’s flagship cloud computing business, Azure, reported quarterly sales growth of under 50% for the first time ever on Wednesday, sending the tech giant’s shares down 2%.
In January, Microsoft pledged to be carbon negative – removing more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits – by 2030. It’s a heck of a job. Meet the man who’s leading the charge.