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The Impact of Major Companies' Decisions on Cryptocurrency Prices:

Bitcoin’s Sharp Decline / Microsoft Shareholders Reject Bitcoin Purchase Proposal

Last night, Microsoft shareholders voted against the proposal to purchase Bitcoin and allocate 1% of the company’s cash reserves to this cryptocurrency. This decision came amid Bitcoin’s volatility and differing views on the investment risk involved, which played a key role in the vote.
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Publish Date:11/December/2024 | 16:15

Google, unlike Microsoft , must turn over foreign emails: U.S. judge

EghtesadOnline: A U.S. judge has ordered Google to comply with search warrants seeking customer emails stored outside the United States, diverging from a federal appeals court that reached the opposite conclusion in a similar case involving Microsoft Corp.
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Publish Date:05/February/2017 | 05:23

Microsoft wins $927 million Pentagon contract: statement

EghtesadOnline: Microsoft Corp has been awarded a $927 million contract to provide technical support to the Defense Information Systems Agency, the Pentagon said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Publish Date:21/December/2016 | 07:07
The companies can learn a lot from Microsoft's dismal acquisition history.

How Microsoft and LinkedIn Can Make This Expensive Deal Work

EghtesadOnline: As Microsoft officially swallows LinkedIn, it should have one goal: Make this acquisition different. The company has a track record of big buys gone south, and writedowns have topped $13 billion since 2012.
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Publish Date:13/December/2016 | 20:32

Elon Musk-backed AI startup and Microsoft sign cloud agreement

EghtesadOnline: OpenAI, the non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research firm backed by Tesla Motors Inc's Elon Musk and other prominent tech executives, has signed an agreement to run most of its large-scale experiments on Microsoft Corp's flagship cloud service, Azure.
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Publish Date:16/November/2016 | 10:49
The former CEO says Microsoft got into the mobile device market too late

Steve Ballmer Says Smartphones Strained His Relationship With Bill Gates

EghtesadOnline: Steve Ballmer said his decision to push Microsoft Corp. into the hardware business contributed to the breakdown of his relationship with longtime friend and company co-founder Bill Gates. Ballmer's only regret: not doing it sooner.
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Publish Date:05/November/2016 | 07:03

Google touts Titan security chip to market cloud services

EghtesadOnline: Alphabet Inc’s Google this week will disclose technical details of its new Titan computer chip, an elaborate security feature for its cloud computing network that the company hopes will enable it to steal a march on Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp.
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Publish Date:23/August/2017 | 05:33

Google touts Titan security chip to market cloud services

EghtesadOnline: Alphabet Inc’s Google this week will disclose technical details of its new Titan computer chip, an elaborate security feature for its cloud computing network that the company hopes will enable it to steal a march on Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp.
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Publish Date:23/August/2017 | 05:33

Google Grabs Nielsen as Business Apps User From Microsoft

EghtesadOnline: Kim Anstett made an unusual decision for a corporate technology buyer. Several months ago, the chief information officer of media measurement firm Nielsen Holdings Plc, moved 56,000 employees from Microsoft Corp.’s business software to Google.
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Publish Date:29/July/2017 | 05:41

Google and Facebook Join Cities in Challenging Trump on Climate

EghtesadOnline: Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Microsoft Corp. and Facebook Inc. are among dozens of companies that pledged their support for policies combating climate change following President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris accord.
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Publish Date:06/June/2017 | 08:47

Iranians Miffed After Microsoft Drops Maps

EghtesadOnline: In the recent Microsoft Creators Update rolled out to all PCs, tablets and phones running Windows 10 in the past few weeks, several Iranian users are looking with disbelief at the company’s Microsoft Maps app which has removed all but “major roads only” from the country.
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Publish Date:31/May/2017 | 10:13

Apple Plans Laptop Upgrades to Take on Microsoft

EghtesadOnline: Apple Inc. plans to announce an update to its laptop lineup at an annual conference for app developers in early June, a move that could help offset new competition from Microsoft Corp. as well as declining iPad sales.
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Publish Date:17/May/2017 | 07:03
Security patches for some popular older versions of Windows were only available if companies paid

Microsoft Faulted Over Ransomware While Shifting Blame to NSA

EghtesadOnline: There's a blame game brewing over who's responsible for the massive cyberattack that infected hundreds of thousands of computers. Microsoft Corp. is pointing its finger at the U.S. government, while some experts say the software giant is accountable too.
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Publish Date:16/May/2017 | 05:43

Google success in U.S. schools forces Microsoft , Apple to scramble

EghtesadOnline: Microsoft Corp's announcement of a suite of new education products on Tuesday shows the company's determination to reverse a major shift that has taken place in U.S. classrooms in recent years: for most educators and school districts, Google's Chromebook is now the computer of choice.
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Publish Date:03/May/2017 | 04:54