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Coronavirus: Facebook cancels conference, Microsoft withdraws from another

Microsoft now has plans to hold a digital-only event from March 16-18. Facebook has earlier pulled out of the Game Developers Conference set to be held in San Francisco.

Coronavirus outbreak: Microsoft to miss sales forecast for Jan-Mar quarter

In its second quarter, Microsoft reported revenue of $36.9 billion and a profit of $11.6 billion

Satya Nadella: A History buff in school, says Sachin yesterday, Virat today

Nadella called upon the Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday

Microsoft chief Satya Nadella's prescription to do away with AI bias

Build diverse and inclusive teams to build these technologies, says Nadella

Nadella 'decodes future', calls for diverse teams to protect AI from bias

The Microsoft CEO said the developers have to think about privacy as a human right and there is a need to have gender and ethnic diversity in the teams that are building these technologies.

Satya Nadella, Mukesh Ambani talk changing landscapes of digital India

72 per cent software jobs are outside tech industry, said Nadella

Microsoft CEO Nadella to woo India Inc with tech to drive e-transformation

A lot has changed since then. His focused execution on enterprise cloud has driven Microsoft's market cap to grow nearly five-fold to cross the $1-trillion mark.

Why Nadella would be happy that Trump will overshadow his India visit

Trump's visit to India has taken the burden off Nadella's shoulders of being picked by the media for his controversial CAA remarks

Elon Musk calls Gates underwhelming as Microsoft founder buys a Porsche

Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft Corp., spoke with a YouTube influencer last week about the challenges of reducing emissions to slow climate change

GitHub sets up India unit, plans to engage with developers and enterprises

India is home to GitHub's third largest community of developers, growing 22 per cent over the last year

US court grants Amazon motion for pause in Microsoft's Pentagon deal

The Pentagon, which had planned to start work on the contract on Friday, said it was disappointed in the ruling.

Microsoft boss Satya Nadella to visit India later this month: Report

Nadella is planning to be in India between Feb. 24 and Feb.26 and will likely visit New Delhi, tech hub Bengaluru and the financial capital Mumbai

Top headlines: Mainak quits as CARE Ratings chief, Nadella's India visit

From Satya Nadella's India visit later this month to analysts' take on consumption stocks, Business Standard brings you the top headlines of the day

Religion, politics spark uncivil online conversations in India: Survey

According to a report by Microsoft, topics like sexual orientation (40 per cent), religion (39 per cent) and politics (37 per cent) drove incivility the most in online conversations in India

Amazon wants to depose Trump over loss of $10 bn military contract

The Pentagon awarded the cloud computing project to Microsoft in October

Plastic fantastic: Visa, Mastercard could be the next $1 trillion companies

Stock prices of both Visa and Mastercard have gained roughly 50 per cent in the past year.

Microsoft says improving sales led to 38% rise in profits in Dec quarter

The earnings highlighted Microsoft's successful transition from a pure consumer software firm to a diversified tech giant focused heavily on business services.

Amazon asks court to pause Microsoft's work on $10-bn Pentagon contract

Amazon blames Donald Trump for bias against the company and for improperly pressuring the Pentagon in the cloud computing contract.

Best of BS Opinion: Satya Nadella's remarks on CAA, Budget 2020, and more

Was Satya Nadella right to pass an opinion on the Citizenship Amendment Act? The opinion pages tackle several issues

Alphabet hits a milestone, joins Apple and Microsoft in the $1 trn club

With the gain, Alphabet became the newest member of an elite club to trade with the historic 13-digit market capitalisation