May 20, 2016
Minecraft is headed to China
Microsoft is bringing Minecraft, the insanely popular game it acquired when it bought Mojang for $2.5 billion, to China. Read More Powered by WPeMatico
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May 18, 2016
Microsoft offloads Nokia feature phone business to Foxconn for $350M
Microsoft is selling the feature phone business it acquired from Nokia back in 2013 to a subsidiary of Chinese manufacturer Foxconn for $350 million, it announced today. At…
Read articleMay 17, 2016
Microsoft and SAP love grows stronger in the cloud
Microsoft and SAP have been pals for years and years, and today at the SAP Sapphire Now customer conference in Orlando, the two company CEOs, Satya Nadella and…
Read articleMay 11, 2016
Sunrise will sunset on August 31st 🌅
We all saw it coming, but it’s still hard to swallow. Well-designed calendar app and service Sunrise will be removed from the stores in the next few days.…
Read articleMay 5, 2016
Pivotal scores $253 million Series C led by Ford on hefty $2.8 billion valuation
Pivotal has a couple of new friends with big wallets. Today it announced that Ford and Microsoft were joining EMC, VMware and GE as investment partners on a…
Read articleApril 29, 2016
Microsoft’s new tool for building line-of-business apps is now in public preview
Microsoft PowerApps allows anybody to build basic business apps without having to touch any code. These apps can run on the web and on mobile (through the PowerApps apps…
Read articleApril 27, 2016
Genetics startup Twist Bioscience is working with Microsoft to store the world’s data in DNA
Twist Bioscience, a startup making and using synthetic DNA to store digital data, just struck a contract with Microsoft and the University of Washington to encode vast amounts of…
Read articleApril 25, 2016
Microsoft’s Word Flow keyboard app lands on iOS
Microsoft has released a next-word predicting keyboard as an iOS app as it seeks to tap into the popularity of the latter’s mobile ecosystem in the hopes of…
Read articleApril 22, 2016
Windows Ink, Cortana improvements and more arrive in the latest Windows 10 build out now
It’s going to be a good Friday for those testing the latest releases of the Windows 10 operating system, as Microsoft is today rolling out a new build of…
Read articleApril 19, 2016
Microsoft’s Azure Container Service is now generally available
Azure Container Service, Microsoft’s container scheduling and orchestration service for its Azure cloud computing service, is now generally available. The service, which allows its users to choose either Mesosphere’s…
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