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Microsoft may cut 1,850 jobs as Nadella pares phone ambitions

Will take a $950-million impairment and restructuring charge, including $200 million for severance payments

Microsoft to trim smartphone business, plans to cut 1,850 jobs

Company will 'streamline' its smartphone business and close down its research and development site in Finland

Microsoft sets out to bridge global disconnect

Microsoft has largely stood by as other technology giants like Facebook and Google have begun work on grand plans for balloons, satellites, drones, simplified apps and even bicycle hot spots to deliver Internet access to the four billion or so people around the world who are not yet online.The venerable software company, still best known for the Windows software that runs most of the world's personal computers, did buy the handset business of Nokia, the Finnish cell phone maker, in 2014 - a platform that could have been the basis of a mobile access strategy - only to write off most of the business a year later and sell the low-end side of it last week. But now Microsoft finally seems to be settling on a strategy for addressing the great global disconnect: It is going to fund other businesses developing local solutions and help build the ones that show the most promise.On Tuesday, the company, which is based in Redmond, Wash., announced the first winners of grants under a new program ca

Microsoft outlines new policy for 'terrorist content'

With the world growing more concerned about attacks by militant groups on civilians, Microsoft on Friday outlined new policies to crack down what it called "terrorist content" on some of its consumer services.In a blog post, the company said it would ban what it called "terrorist content" on some services such as gaming tool Xbox Live, the consumer version of its Outlook email service, and its consumer documents-sharing service.But for its search engine Bing, Microsoft cited free expression and said it would remove links only when that "is required of search providers under local law". Initially, Microsoft will rely on consumers to report objectionable content. The company also said it would fund research of a tool that scans content and flags images, audio and video."We will consider terrorist content to be material posted by or in support of organisations included on the Consolidated United Nations Security Council Sanctions List that depicts graphic violence, encourages violent acti

Microsoft sells Nokia branding rights to HMD Global, Foxconn

HMD announced today that it has conditionally agreed to acquire from Microsoft the rights to use the Nokia brand on feature phones and certain related design rights

Retro tax hangs like Damocles' Sword in India: Microsoft

The company also said there was a need to overcome "trust deficit" over data security issues in India

Microsoft keen to get bigger pie in payments bank segment

Plans to offer solutions around data, security applications and analytics

Microsoft's profit skids

Net income declined to $3.76 billion, or 47 cents a share

Microsoft revenue, profit misses analysts' estimates

Two of three major businesses for Microsoft have shown lower operating profits; shares fall 5% in after-hours trade

Microsoft sues US Justice Department over client data gag orders

Microsoft has been fighting the US over customer privacy and its ability to disclose what it's had to turn over to investigators for more than two years

Microsoft's AI bot resurfaces on Twitter, goes haywire again

Tay, the bot sent a tweet about smoking weed in front of some police officials and later began sending the same message - "You are too fast, please take a rest" over and over again which did not make any sense

Microsoft apologises for offensive tirade by its 'chatbot'

Offensive Twitter messages generated by the so-called chatbot lead Microsoft to say 'sorry'

Microsoft shuts AI-bot after twitteratti teaches it racism

The AI chatbot Tay is a machine learning project, designed for human engagement.

Microsoft updates Windows 10 Maps app

Users of the updated version of the app will be able to view multiple search results on the same map

Banking sector more open to embracing tech solutions now: Karan Bajwa

Interview with Managing director, Microsoft India

Microsoft bets big on huge SMB base in India

Say its mobile first solutions getting faster traction among small businesses

Microsoft opens SQL server to Linux

Analysts expecting other software to follow suit