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Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai & Amazon pitch in to help India fight Covid-19

Google India's Country Head and VP, Sanjay Gupta, wrote in a blog post that the company is announcing Rs 135 crore ($18 million) in funding for India

Google, Microsoft's CEOs pledge support in India's fight against Covid-19

Google CEO Sundar Pichai and his Microsoft counterpart Satya Nadella have assured help to India as the country grapples with a ravaging coronavirus crisis that has put enormous pressure on its hospitals due to a shortage of beds, oxygen and medical supplies. India logged a record of 3,52,991 new coronavirus infections in a day on Monday, taking its total tally of COVID-19 cases to 1,73,13,163. The death toll increased to 1,95,123 with a record 2,812 daily new fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry data. "Devastated to see the worsening Covid crisis in India. Google & Googlers are providing Rs 135 crore in funding to @GiveIndia, @UNICEF for medical supplies, orgs supporting high-risk communities, and grants to help spread critical information," Indian-origin Google CEO Pichai said in a tweet. In another tweet, Microsoft's Indian-origin CEO Nadella said that his company will continue to use its resources and technology for relief efforts and support for buying oxygen ...

Microsoft to release preview version of Office 2021 for Mac, Office LTSC

American multinational technology conglomerate Microsoft will be releasing a preview version of its upcoming Office 2021 for the Mac and Office LTSC this week

Microsoft building new app store for Windows 10 with new design, features

Microsoft is reportedly working on a new app store for Windows 10 that will introduce a modern and fluid user interface, as well as bring changes to the policies

Discord ends sale talks with Microsoft, likely to pursue IPO: Sources

The messaging platform will focus on building the chat platform and making money from its user base that has grown quickly during the pandemic

FBI says will remove backdoors from hacked Microsoft Exchange servers

FBI has launched a mega operation to copy and remove malicious web shells from hundreds of vulnerable computers in the US

Microsoft doubles down on cloud healthcare business with $16 bn Nuance buy

The deal comes after the companies partnered in 2019 to automate clinical administrative work such as documentation

Microsoft buys AI firm Nuance Communications in $19.7-billion deal

With operations in 28 countries, the Burlington, Massachusetts-based company reported $1.5 billion in revenue in fiscal-year 2020

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Carbon review: A power-packed thin-and-light notebook

In yet another bid to offer top-notch specifications packed in a stylish machine, Lenovo has brought its Yoga Slim 7i Carbon to India that will appeal to both entrepreneurs and millennials

Microsoft in talks to buy Nuance Communications for about $16 bn: Report

Talks between Burlington, Massachusetts-based Nuance and Microsoft are ongoing and the discussions could still fall apart, the report added

Microsoft's LinkedIn faces Italian probe following user data scraping

The firm said in a statement that "this was not a LinkedIn data breach, and no private member account data from LinkedIn was included."

After Facebook, LinkedIn faces massive 500 mn users' data leak: Report

Microsoft-owned professional networking platform LinkedIn is now facing a massive data leak of 500 million users that is allegedly being sold online

Covid-19: Microsoft pushes back reopening offices to September 7

Microsoft has announced to delay the reopening of its offices till September, after it stated to slowly reopen Redmond, Washington-based headquarters and nearby campuses from March 29

S&P 500 rides Microsoft, Amazon to record close north of 4,000

Unofficially, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.53% to end at 33,155.85 points, while the S&P 500 gained 1.19% to 4,020.07.

Microsoft to end support for Cortana on Android and iOS devices

Microsoft has announced to end support for its visual assistant Cortana on both Android and iOS devices.

Microsoft wins $21.9 billion contract with US Army to supply AR headsets

Microsoft Corp on Wednesday said it has won a deal to sell the US Army augmented reality headsets based on its HoloLens product and backed by Azure cloud computing services

LinkedIn working on Clubhouse-like audio networking feature: Report

Inspired by the soaring success of invite-only audio chat app Clubhouse, Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is now working on a similar app for over 740 million members in more than 200 countries.

Microsoft Teams offers live transcription for meetings in English

Microsoft Teams has announced Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered live transcription, a written record of the spoken text, for meetings in English

Multiple cyber threats lurking compromised systems, says Microsoft

Facing multiple hacking attempts on its business email servers worldwide, Microsoft has reiterated the warning that patching a system does not necessarily remove the access of the attacker

Microsoft in talks to buy Discord messaging platform: Report

Microsoft is in talks to buy Discord Inc, a messaging platform for gamers, for more than $10 billion, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday