Microsoft

Microsoft Integrates Payments For Mobile Workforce On Kaizala

Microsoft is enhancing its payments capabilities by integrating peer-to-peer (P2P) payment functionality on its Kaizala solution in India, the technology firm said...

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Today In Data

Building Way Outside The Box

In a world that values sameness, doing something different is a risky proposition. But when it works, the rewards can be impressive. It’s...

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Microsoft Goes After Credit Unions With Data Analytics Development

Microsoft is targeting credit unions with its latest solution designed with CUNA Mutual Group, and insurance and financial services company. They announced...

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Telecoms In Turkey, Syria, Egypt Installing Mining, Surveillance Malware

Internet providers in Turkey and Syria have reportedly been placing surveillance malware on unsuspecting web users, while internet providers in Egypt are...

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Apple

Apple Just Misses Hedge Funds’ Top 10 Holdings

Apple is not as popular with hedge funds as other tech stocks. Even though Apple is a “big five” technology company, Goldman...

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Cyberattacks Cost US Economy As Much As $109B In 2016

Cyberattacks cost the U.S. economy upwards of $109 billion in 2016, with activity coming from inside the country as well as outside....

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81 Percent Of Senior Execs Lack Confidence In Their Cybersecurity

A new survey shows that cybersecurity is the biggest worry for companies, especially since few of them feel prepared to handle an...

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Microsoft, Comcast Remain In Blockchain Exploratory Mode

Spending on blockchain technologies will ramp up to $9.2 billion by 2021, according to International Data Corporation (IDC) figures. Its latest Worldwide...

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Subscription Commerce

Subscriptions Are On The Rise, But Features Lag Behind

It’s hard to imagine typing a document or planning a budget without using a Microsoft Office product. The nearly ubiquitous software used...

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Facebook

Facebook Buys Confirm.io, Snags IBM’s Chief AI Exec

Facebook is expanding its artificial intelligence pedigree by hiring an IBM executive. According to a report in CNBC, Jérôme Pesenti, who led...

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The Frightful Five: Amazon Slays, Apple Prays

December was a good month for Amazon. Really, 2017 was a good year for the eCommerce giant, and we’ve got the numbers...

The Frightful Five: Echo And Alexa Are A Power Couple

Amazon’s Alexa just learned her 25,000th skill, and the Echo started a price war among voice-activated smart home speakers. How did Google respond...

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Homeland Security Says Facebook, Microsoft Averted North Korean Cyberattacks

Facebook and Microsoft blocked a number of cyberattacks from North Korea last week, White House Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert announced on...

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The Frightful Five: Fake Apps And Hubcaps

When a company is as massive as any one of the Frightful Five, the bad news is it’s inevitable that some things...

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Frightful Five: The Apple Update That Pays

Amazon takes another swing at Etsy, Apple catches up in the proprietary Pay game and Facebook matriculates a new generation of social...

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Frightful Five: Apple Speaker Delayed While Alexa, Google Assistant Charge Ahead

Amazon’s Alexa just keeps getting smarter. Soon she’ll be making herself at home at work with new business-oriented skills, and she’s about...

Frightful Five: The Early Bird Gets The Cheap Bird

Will consumers trust Facebook to verify their identity at real-world points of sale? Can apartment hunters trust its Marketplace more than Craigslist?...

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The Frightful Five: iPhone X Delivers, AmazonFresh Doesn’t

Apple dominated the news this week, with the new iPhone X making headlines (and animoji karaoke taking Twitter by storm — although the...

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Sizzle/Fizzle

Big Tech Firms Sizzle, Star-Backed ICOs Fizzle

It was a week that showed mobility in mobile-ad companies, at least as stock prices were concerned. Consumers seem ready to spread...

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The Frightful Five: Monster Valuation

The total combined value of the Frightful Five — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft — is indeed a frightful amount, most recently tallied...

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Merchant Innovation

$3 Trillion: The Combined Value Of Tech’s Big Five

It’s a little late for Halloween, but there is certainly something almost a bit scary in the combined valuations of tech’s top...

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Internet of Things

Chevron Taps Microsoft As Its Cloud Provider

American energy corporation Chevron announced Monday (Oct. 30) it had entered into a seven-year partnership with Redmond, Washington-based technology company Microsoft Corp.,...

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Stock Index

Frightful Five Add $181B To Wall Street

With technology earnings in full swing, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook all added billions of dollars in market value last week alone....

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The Frightful Five: Facebook And Google Join The ‘Pay’ Club

Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft: Together, these tech giants are the Frightful Five, and they’re always up to something. From Amazon...

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RIP Windows Phone

Goodbye Windows phone. According to a recent article posted by TechCrunch, the head of the Microsoft Windows division has confirmed reports that...

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Google

Google Powers Siri Search

Apple’s decision to change its default web search browser to Google from Microsoft’s Bing when accessing Siri may seem like a blow...

Facebook

Facebook Tracker: Taller, Wider, Smarter

Facebook adds 33 stories of San Francisco office space and a 4,000-mile trans-Atlantic cable to its assets. Plus, the social media giant...

Voice Activation

Smarter Homes And Offices

OK, Google. Listen up, Alexa. Playtime’s over. It’s time to step outside the smart home and begin to build the smart office....

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Amazon Tracker: Cities Clamor To Become Amazon’s Home Away From Home

Amazon has come under fire for price gouging in the week leading up to Hurricane Irma. As the Category 5 storm drew...

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Artificial Intelligence

Could AI Cause The Next World War? Elon Musk Thinks So

Days after Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the first global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) would “become the ruler of the...

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Amazon

Alexa And Cortana Forge Virtual Friendship

Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana are now on voice command speaking terms. The companies announced news on Wednesday (Aug. 30) that owners...

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Ridesharing

EY To Use Blockchain For Auto Industry, Ride-Hailing Services

Blockchain, the technology that makes cryptocurrency like bitcoin possible, is moving into the auto and ridesharing markets. According to a news report...

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Microsoft Accelerator Chooses All-B2B Cohort

Microsoft Accelerator, which launched in 2012, has so far accelerated 129 startups across 10 cohorts. For its 11th group of startups, however,...

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What's Hot

Microsoft Introduces Coco Framework Concept With Bitcoin In Mind

Blockchain is more than just a technology being used for the transfer of cryptocurrency like bitcoin. Enterprises are looking to utilize blockchain...

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Mobile Payments

PayPal And Skype Team On Mobile Payments

PayPal, the online payment company that has been striking a flurry of deals in recent weeks, has teamed with Microsoft to enable...

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Google

Google Hires Former Essential Exec For Home Improvement

As much as Google would like users to believe there’s no device like Home, the smart speaker is not exactly delivering an...

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Voice-Activated Tracker: Smart Home Edition

Nearly two decades ago, Disney debuted its “Smart House” movie in which a young boy wins a computerized home. At the time, it...

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Innovation

Microsoft, Baidu Partner To Push Self-Driving Cars Around Globe

Microsoft and Baidu announced plans Tuesday (July 18) to partner to drive adoption of self-driving cars around the globe. In a press...

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Innovation

Microsoft Debuts Path Guide For Indoor Navigation

Navigating around busy cities today is next to impossible for some people without the aid of their preferred smartphone GPS system guiding...

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Microsoft, Flexera To Streamline Enterprise Software Management

The enterprise B2B Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market is booming, and Microsoft wants to help SMBs and SMEs manage all of the products they’re...

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