On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was struck with its Microsoft Outlook services outage. Several users went to social media platforms to shine a light on the events taking place, complaining that they could not access their emails, either by web or mobile browsers. The Big Tech titan was tagged in almost every post, […]
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AT&T announced plans to sell its online advertising platform Xandr Inc. to Microsoft, a move that will welcome the Big Tech giant into the digital marketing field. The tech titan stated that Xandr’s digital ad marketing strategies would fundamentally heighten advertising and retail media capacities. Only last year, AT&T disclosed plans to put on the […]
British antitrust regulators are opening an investigation into Microsoft’s $16 billion acquisition of speech recognition company Nuance in the latest sign they’re tightening scrutiny of big technology deals. The Competition and Markets Authority said in a brief statement Monday that it’s looking into the purchase because of concerns that it could result in a “substantial […]
Three years ago, Google was pressured by its employees to drop a Pentagon project using artificial intelligence (AI), now, the Big Tech giant is chasing after another massive contract that will work on cloud computing to the military, according to The New York Times. In 2018, Google backed away from Project Maven with the Department of […]
Microsoft joins the metaverse legion by announcing Tuesday the development of a Microsoft Mesh Mixed Reality inside Teams by directly inserting virtual experience platform Mesh to endorse the integration of virtual spaces for consumers and business. The Big Tech titan revealed that following the overtake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the world’s shift towards remote […]
Apple Inc. was toppled aside from its throne as the world’s most valuable public company by Big Tech fellow, Microsoft, after the iOS developer’s market share fell on Friday by almost 2 percent. The fluctuation arises from Apple’s financial report for the fiscal year 2021, revealing unusual results – despite failing to meet Wall Street’s earnings expectations […]
U.S. Big Tech legion seems to be torn between two economic powerhouses. In a battle for dominion between the East and the West, Big Tech companies are forfeiting from the Chinese market to prevent getting caught in the conflict, except for Apple, according to the BBC. Last week, Microsoft announced news of shutting down its professional […]
Etisalat and Microsoft join forces to unleash its latest 5G enterprise by emerging Azure Multi-access Edge Compute, a power move to highlight the giant’s partnership with Emirate’s telco. In a press release, Etisalat revealed that its recent collaboration with the Big Tech titan’s digital crime unit (DCU) will empower digital security in the Middle East […]
Microsoft is finally falling under pressure to allow an independent third-party to examine the potential result of making the tech giant’s devices easier to repair, and to adjust its work operations upon those findings by the end of 2022, according to Grist and the shareholder advocacy group As You Sow. The agreement came following the advocacy group As You Sow’s efforts in launching a shareholder resolution, requesting Microsoft to examine the impact it could have by ensuring an […]
Microsoft announced on Wednesday its latest step in securing its Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft OneDrive accounts by welcoming its “passwordless account” option for consumers’ in the upcoming weeks for Windows 10 and Windows 11 PCs. In March, the Big Tech giant already made this option available for all its corporate accounts as a necessary solution […]