The FTC is preparing to investigate Microsoft’s cloud business
The agency’s antitrust investigation continues Biden administration scrutiny of Big Tech as the industry waits to discover ...
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Microsoft UAE power deal at centre of US plan for AI supremacy
The latest in a line of AI deals that Microsoft has struck in the UAE this year, it is the fruit of a strategic partnership the US struck with the Gulf state in September to entwine the UAE with US ...
OpenAI’s next ‘giant breakthrough’ tipped to land soon and control your computer
The space is shaping up to be the next big AI battleground, with Google recently leaking its so-called Jarvis AI tool that ...
Is IBM's Bet on AI Starting to Pay Off?
But IBM is never the first name that springs to mind in the AI conversation. That perception should change very soon. The ...
One in five PCs shipped in Q3 were AI-enabled, but that's not why people are buying them
Canalys said Windows devices made up the majority of AI PC shipments in the most recently quarter, but just barely with a 53 ...
Microsoft’s startup story: How the company became a tech giant, and what we can learn from it today
For this second chapter in our Microsoft @ 50 series, GeekWire spent the past month revisiting Microsoft’s early years, from ...
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Digital colonialism is threatening the Global South
In South Africa, Google and Facebook dominate the online advertising industry, and are considered an existential threat to local media. Uber has captured so much of the traditional taxi industry that ...
Biden Asked Microsoft to “Raise the Bar on Cybersecurity.” He May Have Helped Create an Illegal Monopoly.
Renee Dudley, with research by Doris Burke ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to ...
The FTC is readying an investigation into Microsoft's cloud-computing business: report
The Federal Trade Commission, led by Lina Khan, had previously sought public feedback on Microsoft's cloud computing business ...
FTC eyes Microsoft’s cloud practices amid anti-trust scrutiny
This move follows the FTC’s legal challenge against Microsoft’s $75 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which faced ...
US regulators to investigate Microsoft’s cloud business in Pres Biden's final days in White House
Microsoft has been using restrictive licensing agreements to prevent customers from moving their data to competing platforms.
Phil Spencer says Microsoft's PC-heavy lineup this year is 'historical' and an 'anomaly', so don't get used to it
Xbox chief Phil Spencer has recently been doing the interview circuit, mixing up his usual advocacy for Microsoft's slate ...