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Pentagon and Microsoft are investigating leak of military emails

WASHINGTON — The Defense Department and Microsoft Corp. are investigating an error that exposed at least a terabyte of military emails including personal information and conversations between officials, people familiar with the matter said, an episode that highlighted the security risk of moving sensitive Pentagon data to the cloud.

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Microsoft in showdown with EU to save $69 billion deal

Microsoft Corp. headed into a showdown with European Union antitrust watchdogs by insisting its $69 billion takeover of Activision Blizzard Inc. will “bring more competition” for gamers but pledging to show willingness to address antitrust concerns.

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Microsoft sees no activision deal without Call of Duty

Microsoft Corp. made it clear on Tuesday that there will be no $69 billion deal to buy Activision Blizzard Inc. unless it comes with the blockbuster title Call of Duty.

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Look Out Google, Microsoft Is Coming For Search Share: Why Satya Nadella Says ‘I’ve Never Ever Felt This Liberated In Terms Of Opportunity’

Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) doubled down on its investment in OpenAI's ChatGPT last month, and among the many use cases, the tech giant has set its sights on arguably the most near-term AI opportunity

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Tech giants broke their spending records on lobbying last year

Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. broke their lobbying spending records last year as they fended off heightened scrutiny of their business models and power over the U.S. economy.

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Electronic Arts Cuts Bookings View on ‘Star Wars’ Game Delay, Spending Slowdown

Electronic Arts Inc lowered its annual bookings forecast on Tuesday, as the videogame publisher delayed the release of a title based on the "Star Wars" franchise and consumers dialed back spending in a sagging economy. The company's shares fell nearly 7% in extended trading as the results added to last…

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Microsoft invests $10 billion in ChatGPT maker OpenAI

Microsoft Corp. is investing $10 billion in OpenAI, whose artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT has lit up the internet since its introduction in November, amassing more than a million users within days and touching off a fresh debate over the role of AI in the workplace.

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Google Parent to Lay Off 12,000 Workers

Alphabet Inc is eliminating 12,000 jobs, its chief executive said in a staff memo shared with Reuters. The cuts mark the latest to shake the technology sector and come days after rival Microsoft Corp said it would lay off 10,000 workers. The job losses affect teams across the company including…

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Microsoft, Amazon set to erase 28,000 jobs as tech slump deepens

Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc., two of the world’s biggest companies, began cutting a total of 28,000 jobs on Wednesday in a post-pandemic reckoning that has left almost no tech name unscathed.

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Microsoft plans 10,000 job cuts, to take $1.2 billion charge

Microsoft Corp. said it plans to cut 10,000 jobs, or about 5% of its workforce this year, taking steps to cope with an increasingly bleak outlook that has now bruised many of the technology industry’s biggest companies.

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Microsoft in talks to invest $10bn in ChatGPT owner

BENGALURU: Microsoft Corp is in talks to invest US$10 billion into OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, which will value the San Francisco-based firm at $29 billion, Semafor reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

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Australia takes aim at Apple, Microsoft over child protection online

An Australian regulator, after using new powers to make the tech giants share information about their methods, accused Apple Inc and Microsoft Corp not doing enough to stop child exploitation content on their platforms.

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Microsoft says it offered FTC consent decree on 'Call of Duty'

Microsoft Corp. said that antitrust regulators shrugged off its offer to make "Call of Duty" available to gaming rivals — including Sony Group Corp. — as part of its $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard Inc.

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Microsoft to buy 4% of London Stock Exchange Group on cloud deal

Microsoft Corp agreed to buy a 4% stake in London Stock Exchange Group Plc as part of a $2.8 billion cloud-computing deal that pushes big tech further into financial markets.

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FTC votes to file suit to block Microsoft’s $69 Billion Activision deal

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is seeking to block Microsoft Corp.’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc., saying the tie-up between the Xbox maker and popular gaming publisher would harm competition.

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Microsoft is ready to fight for its $69 billion Activision deal

Microsoft Corp. is ready to fight for its $69 billion acquisition of gaming company Activision Blizzard Inc. if the US Federal Trade Commission files a lawsuit seeking to block the deal, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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Sony to Expand Chinese Game Incubator in Microsoft Head-to-Head

Sony Group Corp said on Tuesday it plans to expand a program to identify and incubate Chinese-made games, in a race with Microsoft Corp to tap China's gaming market. The program will invest more than 1 million yuan ($140,080) in each game it enrolls, and will not only fund small…

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Microsoft wants AI to change your job—if it can work out the kinks

The most hyped words in tech today may be “generative AI.” The term describes artificially intelligent technology that can generate art, or text or code, directed by prompts from a user. The concept was made famous this year by Dall-E, a program capable of creating a fantastic range of artistic…

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What To Watch For When Meta Platforms Reports Q3 Earnings After The Bell

Big tech earnings season is off to a sluggish start after Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) reported

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Cezanne, Seurat works headline $1 billion sale from late Microsoft co-founder's estate

Paintings by Paul Cezanne, Georges Seurat and Lucian Freud will go under the hammer next month in a sale of artworks from the estate of late Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen that is expected to raise more than $1 billion for philanthropic causes.

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Microsoft’s army goggles left US soldiers with nausea, headaches in test

U.S. soldiers using Microsoft Corp.’s new goggles in their latest field test suffered “mission-affecting physical impairments” including headaches, eyestrain and nausea, according to a summary of the exercise compiled by the Pentagon’s testing office.

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Bill Gates Likely Saw Food Shortages Coming Years Ago — Why His Land Accumulation Feels Calculated

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has had an incredibly impressive career.

Reuters

Bill Gates, South Korea expand global health partnership

South Korea agreed on Tuesday to expand its global health partnership with the foundation set up by Microsoft Corp co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates.

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Comcast lost internet customers for the first time. Executives call it a blip, but stock is down sharply

PHILADELPHIA — Brian Roberts at Comcast Corp. sealed a deal with Microsoft Corp. mogul Bill Gates in 1997 for $1 billion to modernize Comcast’s cable network for the internet, leading Comcast to sell high-speed broadband to tens of millions of homes, apartments and businesses over the next 25 years.

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Microsoft Earned Price Target Bumps From Analysts Due To Azure Growth Despite Missing Q4 Due To Macro Headwinds

Analysts expressed optimism over Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) Azure following

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