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Microsoft blockchain-as-a-service embraces Ripple
December 8th, 2015
Microsoft is working with Rippleto add a pure play transactional financial services angle to its recently released blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) toolkit, Microsoft announced in October plans to provide a blockchain platform on its Azure cloud using Ethereum. The idea is ...
Microsoft and MIT Explore Unique Applications of the Bitcoin Blockchain
July 30th, 2015
Microsoft New York and MIT Media Lab presented a 70-minute report called #Blockchain4good this week. Speakers included Brian Forde, MIT Media Lab director of digital currency and former senior technology adviser at the White House, and John Paul Farmer, ...
Nasdaq Taking Apple, Microsoft to Shenzhen With Tech Stock ETF
May 22nd, 2015
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. is seeking to tempt Shenzhen stock investors with Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. amid a rally in Chinese technology shares that’s making the U.S. dot-com bubble look subdued. Nasdaq will start a exchange-traded fund in ...
Microsoft Is Said to Evaluate Possible Bid for Salesforce
May 6th, 2015
Microsoft Corp. is evaluating a bid for Salesforce.com Inc., after the cloud software provider was approached by another would-be buyer, people with knowledge of the matter said. Salesforce, which has a market value of almost $50 billion, is working ...
EY and Microsoft form strategic business relationship
April 23rd, 2015
Alliance focused on accelerating customers’ digital adoption to build a better working world EY announced a strategic business relationship with Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) to deliver new and innovative services through their digital-age strengths to companies around the world. ...
KPMG Announces New Strategic Collaboration with Microsoft
March 30th, 2015
Strategic collaboration to deliver new generation of data and analytics, cloud and business solutions. KPMG today announced an expansion of its strategic relationship with Microsoft to include a global collaboration to jointly deliver new suites of innovative solutions and ...
Microsoft sales soar for all its non-Windows products
January 27th, 2015
Microsoft sales are growing for just about every product it makes … except for Windows. A couple years ago, that would have caused a panic — Windows has been Microsoft’s cash cow since 1985. In 2015, Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30) isn’t sweating it too ...
Microsoft busts down $400B barrier
November 7th, 2014
Technology giant Microsoft (MSFT) Thursday surpassed $400 billion in market value, marking its return to the top tier of the most valuable companies in the world. Powered by news the company is making its popular Office suite of products more widely available on ...
Microsoft lays off 3,000 in latest round of cuts
October 30th, 2014
Close to 70% of the positions were former Nokia staffers. Microsoft laid off 3,000 workers Wednesday, finishing a round of 18,000 layoffs that the company announced in July. “The reductions happening today are spread across many different business units, ...
Microsoft sales lifted by the cloud
October 24th, 2014
Microsoft continues to look to the cloud as it releases first quarter earnings. Lifted by strong momentum in its Internet cloud-based offerings, Microsoft on Thursday said its fiscal first-quarter revenue jumped to $23.2 billion, topping Wall Street estimates. The ...