Tag: Microsoft

• Friday, November 13th 2026 - 17:09 UTC

  Microsoft restores services after a global outage hit Outlook and Teams in more than 70 countries

  

  Microsoft said on Friday its services were recovering after a global outage that began on Thursday afternoon, European time, and for hours affected millions of users in more than 70 countries, including public bodies in Australia and Japan. The company ruled out a cyberattack.

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• Friday, June 23rd 2023 - 11:10 UTC

  Microsoft AI lab inaugurated in Uruguay

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Wednesday declared inaugurated Microsoft's first Artificial Intelligence laboratory in Latin America and the fourth in the world. The installations are at the Technological Laboratory of Uruguay (LATU).

• Thursday, July 29th 2021 - 05:02 UTC

  Tech companies profits soar to over US$ 50 billion in April/June

  

  Tech companies Apple, Microsoft, and Google owner Alphabet reported on Tuesday combined profits of more than US$ 50 billion in the second quarter of the year. The three companies currently have a combined market value of US$6.4 trillion, more than double their market capitalization when the pandemic started 16 months ago.

• Monday, September 21st 2020 - 08:27 UTC

  Group of world's largest corporations call to support nature and fight climate change

  

  Some of the world's biggest companies on Monday backed growing calls for governments to do more to reverse the accelerating destruction of the natural world and support broader efforts to fight climate change.

• Tuesday, December 31st 2019 - 12:04 UTC

  Microsoft takes down 50 domains used by North Korean hacking groups

  

  Microsoft said on Monday it obtained a court order allowing it to seize web domains used by North Korean hacking groups to launch cyberattacks on human rights activists, researchers and others.

• Saturday, April 27th 2019 - 10:13 UTC

  Microsoft hit this week trillion-dollar value mark for the first time

  

  Microsoft hit the trillion-dollar value mark on Thursday for the first time, becoming the third technology giant to reach the milestone. Shares in Microsoft rallied some 5% in early Wall Street trade after a robust earnings report a day earlier to lift the value briefly above US$1 trillion

• Monday, November 5th 2018 - 18:06 UTC

  Bill Gates foresees taxes on robots to keep people at their jobs

  

  Microsoft founder Bill Gates foresees that a special tax on robots will be introduced in the near future to help people keep their jobs, according to an interview published Monday in the Japanese Nikkei newspaper.

• Tuesday, October 16th 2018 - 06:52 UTC

  Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft has died aged 65

  

  Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft, has died aged 65 from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He had revealed the disease's return only two weeks ago, after previously being treated for it in 2009. Allen had said he and his doctors were “optimistic” about treatment.

• Friday, June 29th 2018 - 09:02 UTC

  Facebook, Google and Microsoft act in an “unethical” way on privacy issues, claims Norwegian regulator

  

  Facebook, Google and Microsoft push users away from privacy-friendly options on their services in an “unethical” way, according to a report by the Norwegian Consumer Council. It studied the privacy settings of the firms and found a series of “dark patterns”, including intrusive default settings and misleading wording.

• Wednesday, August 16th 2017 - 15:51 UTC

  Bill and Melinda Gates donate US$ 4.6bn to charity; since 1994 they have given US$ 35bn

  

  Bill Gates has given away US$4.6bn to charity in his largest donation since 2000. He remains the world's richest person, despite giving away 64 million shares in Microsoft. The shares are equivalent to 5% of his total fortune, currently estimated to be US$ 89.9bn.