Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)

What’s bigger? Windows or the clouds outside? That’s a question as Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) prepares to report fiscal Q2 earnings this Wednesday. Last quarter, the company’s More Personal Computing segment—which comprises Windows, Surface, search ads,...

Grayscale Investments, a subsidiary of the Digital Currency Group, on Tuesday, said it had become a reporting company with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. What Happened The company had filed for the status in mid-November, and the form 10 filing was deemed effective as per...

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is hiring another 1,000 employees in its UK offices, Reuters reported on Monday. What Happened The California-based social media behemoth will hire across different departments, such as product management, software engineering, data science, and "...

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) on Thursday said it's planning to become ‘carbon negative' by 2030. What Happened This means that the company will aim to clear more carbon from the environment than it emits. Microsoft also pledged to entirely eliminate all carbon that the...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has acquired edge-based artificial intelligence startup Xnor.ai, GeekWire reported on Wednesday, citing sources close to the matter. What Happened The Cupertino-based technology giant has reportedly paid $200 million for Xnor's acquisition, whose early investors...

Idaho-based chipmaker Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) is expecting to recover the business by its third financial quarter of 2020. The company's chief executive officer Sanjay Mehrotra told Reuters on Wednesday that Micron was one of the companies to receive the U.S. Department of Commerce...

Microsoft Incorporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) was among the companies who received the license to export some products to China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, the company confirmed to Reuters on Thursday. What Happened Microsoft told Reuters that its request for a license to allow export of...

Today, there's an app for pretty much anything. Moreover, apps keep developing as the world gets more and more connected. Entrepreneurs and managers are able to choose from a variety of tools to improve their productivity since every moment wasted during work is either time or both time and...

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) recently announced a $1.5 million investment in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, to help expand companies in the manufacturing sector on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. The investment is part of a Microsoft program called the Bridge Accelerator, which will train 75...

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s the super rich! Those big-thinking billionaires and their sky-high space obsessions: One wants to build inflatable houses in space and thinks aliens walk among us. Another just unveiled not only the world’s biggest plane,...

On Monday, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Thomas Frieden, apologized for his remark over the weekend that the 26-year-old Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola had breached protocols. Instead, he said the CDC is working to provide better training in order...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is planning to open a storefront in New York City, a departure from the company’s 20-year history as an Internet-only business. The new store, expected to be opened before the holidays, will be located on West 34th Street and is expected to allow customers...

On Monday, Citigroup settled the U.S. government’s probe into whether or not the firm misled investors and sold them faulty mortgages in the time leading up to the financial crisis. The lender agreed to pay $7 billion in fines, which includes a $4 billion penalty, $2.5 million in consumer...

Though Iran, the US, Britian, France ,Germany, Russia and China all agreed to find a long term solution to the ongoing debate over Iran’s nuclear capabilities by July 20, an agreement in just under two months is looking less and less likely. The six world powers and Iran agreed to a short...

In an effort to force Moscow to backtrack on its actions in Ukraine, the US and Europe have imposed more economic sanctions against Russia. The sanctions, designed to target government individuals and businesses linked to President Vladimir Putin, were not as strict as some were expecting which...