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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, 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 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.

Reuters

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.

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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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Analysts Remain Cautious Over SAP Post Q2 Results

Analysts remained divided with a cautious tone over SAP SE's (NYSE:SAP) prospects post Q2 results. Barclays analyst Raimo Lenschow saw SAP managing expectations into Q2, and the move lower in consensus halved the adj. EBIT miss. He found the FY guidance cut was unexpected, though, especially following reiterations in the quarter, and could not…

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Bill Gates donates $20 billion to his foundation

Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates is donating $20 billion to the charitable foundation run by him and his ex-wife Melinda French Gates to boost its annual distributions.

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Amazon, Microsoft, Google Strengthen Grip on Cloud

The pandemic period has been a boon for the trio of companies that dominate cloud computing. Now as the economy enters another tumultuous phase, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google appear poised to extend their strength.

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Facebook, Instagram Fall Prey To Data Scraping; Indict Chinese Company

Meta Platforms, Inc (NASDAQ:META) prosecuted Octopus Data, the U.S. subsidiary of a Chinese national high-tech enterprise Shenzhen Vision Information Technology Co. Octopus Data allegedly offered data scraping services for Facebook and Instagram. Meta also prosecuted a Turkey-based individual, Ekrem Ateş, for allegedly setting up automated Instagram accounts to scrape data from 350,000 Instagram…

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Citi Remains Unfazed By Enron Collapse Predictor's Bearishness On These Data Center Stocks

Citi analyst Michael Rollins noted data center stocks Equinix, Inc (NASDAQ:EQIX), Digital Realty Trust, Inc (NYSE:DLR), Cyxtera Technologies, Inc (NASDAQ:CYXT) were down an average of >5% on July 1 on reports (including Financial Times) that an investor is "betting against 'legacy' data centers that now face growing competition from the trio of tech giants that have been…

Benzinga

Blizzard Entertainment Acquires This Boston-Based Studio For Undisclosed Terms

Activision Blizzard, Inc's (NASDAQ:ATVI) Blizzard Entertainment closed the acquisition of the Boston-based studio Proletariat. The financial terms of the transaction remain undisclosed. The acquisition will help better serve players in the multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft. "Over the next two years, we plan to hire hundreds of the best developers to…

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Tencent, Other Chinese Companies Follow Western Counterparts In Laying off Staff As Economic Slowdown Weighs

Chinese tech giants like Tencent Holding Ltd (OTC:TCEHY) and TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd implemented fresh layoffs affecting thousands of employees in their latest round of cost-cutting, the Wall Street Journal reports. The job cuts added on to the tens of thousands of employees already axed by Chinese internet companies since late 2021 after the domestic regulatory crackdown crushed the…

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Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft And Others Set To Lose As Gartner Predicts Demand Softness For Smartphones, PCs In 2022

China's economic slowdown and inflation-led drop in consumer spending will likely weigh on the global shipments of computers and smartphones in 2022, as per a Reuters story citing research firm Gartner. Earlier this month, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc (NASDAQ:AMD) warned against a slowdown in the PC market after two solid years. Analysts expected the chipmaker to gain…

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