... (#3, -4%)Microsoft (#4, +11%)IBM (#5, -10%)Toyota (#6, +16%)Samsung (#7, 0%)GE (#8, -7%)McDonald’s (#9, -6%)Amazon (#10, +29%) Top Risers Facebook (#23, +54%)Apple (#1, +43%)Amazon (#10, +29%)Hermès ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-24
... backed by Microsoft Corp.He got the idea for a massage app after spending hours hunched over his desk tapping code. Kungfu Bear landed angel funding from China Renaissance K2 Ventures and started oper ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-17
... vision to Microsoft Corp. last year. Finland did undergo a brief economic downturn following the fall of Nokia. However, as a lot of the tech talent formerly employed by Nokia either re-entered the jo ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-11
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates unveiled on Monday a "Breakthrough Energy Coalition", an initiative that ropes in top businessmen from several countries for investments in clean-ene ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-01
... ion while Microsoft is about US$430 billion. Amazon, now valued at US$320 billion, may surpass them in five years. The new economy is not directly competing with the old one. The new is overtaking the ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-30
... ted news, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will launch a multi-billion-dollar clean energy research and development initiative on Monday, the opening day of the UN climate change summit. Gates and a gr ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-30
... msung and Microsoft were previously reported to be shifting their handset making operations to Vietnam. Taiwanese touchscreen manufacturer Wintek closed its two factories in Dongguan last year. The go ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-18
... Facebook, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc. and Alphabet Inc., formerly Google, have been publishing details about the number of government requests for data they receive, the news agency said. -- Contact u ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-12
... billion. Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates remains the world’s richest, with a net worth of US$85 billion. Last month, Bezos surpassed brothers Charles and David Koch to become the the third richest ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-11
... g Google, Microsoft and Facebook, said the proposals were a concern. "The bill is a setback for privacy rights and part of a worrisome trend toward more governmental surveillance in Europe while the U ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-05
Steve Ballmer, the former chief executive of Microsoft, has revealed that he holds 4 percent stake in Twitter Inc, making him the third-biggest individual shareholder in the microblogging service oper ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-19
... Band from Microsoft and the Apple Watch all gave results that varied less than 5 percent from the readings given by professional medical equipment. However, Asus’ Zenwatch, which can measure only rest ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-16
... e US like Microsoft and Yahoo have been overtaken by nimbler rivals such as Apple. The same thing would apply to firms in this part of the world. If Hong Kong thinks it will continue to have a lead ov ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-14
... , IBM and Microsoft Corp., has resisted any moves by the government to weaken increasingly sophisticated encryption systems designed to protect consumers' privacy. The decision to back away from a law ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-12
... ware firm Microsoft is holding US$108.3 billion in five tax haven subsidiaries, and drug company Pfizer is holding US$74 billion in 151 subsidiaries, the study said. "Congress can and should take stro ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-07
Microsoft Corp. and Chinese search giant Baidu Inc. have signed a deal to make Baidu.com the default search engine and home page for users of Microsoft’s Edge browser in China, Bloomberg reported. The ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-24
... ompany of Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, the chief executives of Boeing and Starbucks Corp. and other local luminaries. The Chinese leader's visit to Seattle, which he called "America's gatewa ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-23
... owned by Microsoft Inc., flooded Twitter and Facebook from around 2 a.m. Eastern Time, The Wall Street Journal reported. Some users said the outage affected Skype services across the world, including ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-22
Microsoft Corp. has been sued for allegedly discriminating against women in pay and promotions. The lawsuit was filed on Wednesday in a federal court in Seattle, Washington by former technician Kather ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-17
... including Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and Virgin Group chief executive Richard Branson. Like Branson's Virgin Galactic, one of Blue Origin's goals is to fly tourists into suborbital, and ultimatel ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-16
