Microsoft Corp. is accusing a hacking group previously linked to the Russian government and US political hacks of being behind recent cyber attacks that exploited a newly discovered Windows security f ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-02
... rcent and Microsoft up about 125 percent. The beauty of investing in these low-profile but highly-profitable companies is that the investment return is usually less subject to whether you get the timi ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-31
Microsoft Corp. saw its shares jump to an all-time high after reporting adjusted revenue and profit that blew past analysts' estimates amid strong sales from its cloud business. The news underscores t ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-21
Walt Disney Co. and Microsoft Corp. join a list of potential suitors for Twitter Inc., which is reportedly in talks with a number of technology companies to sell itself. The microblogging service has ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-27
... ng former Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates, San Francisco mayor Ed Lee and California lieutenant governor Gavin Newsom. Zuckerberg said science and the medical community have made rapid advancement ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-22
... Bono and Microsoft Corp. co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates. The attention generated by the conference "has ensured that the donations are going to continue to flow in" during the coming weeks ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-19
... he index. Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, the world’s richest person with US$87.3 billion, has lost US$2.4 billion. Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos, the world’s third-richest person with US$ ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-14
... outpacing Microsoft Corp.'s XBox One and Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s Wii U. In the financial year through March 2017, Sony expects the gaming unit to account for 45 percent of its overall operating profit. -- ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-08
Microsoft Corp. has decided to sell its MSN China portal a Chinese firm, three months after saying it would close it. The buyer is an entity run by a former general manager at Microsoft Online, the Wa ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-31
... , Amazon, Microsoft, IBM and Google are the big four in the cloud computing business. As for the market share, Amazon leads with 31 percent, followed by Microsoft with 11 percent, IBM with 8 percent a ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-17
Microsoft Corp. said it will cut about 2,850 more jobs over the next 12 months, taking its total planned job cuts to up to 4,700, or about 4 percent of its workforce. The company said in May it would ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-29
... reports. Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates remained the world's richest person, at US$77.7 billion, while Spain's Amancio Ortega, who founded the Zara clothing chain's owner Inditex SA, was secon ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-29
... bid from Microsoft Corp. and struggling to define its mission. That question was never really answered, leading to years of management instability and shifting priorities. In December, Yahoo scrapped ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-25
... s friend, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, and his wife. The pledge was then worth more than US$30 billion, the report said. Buffett also donated 1.5 million Class B shares to the Susan Thompso ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-15
Microsoft Corp. said it will buy LinkedIn Corp. for US$26.2 billion, a hefty premium of 50 percent over the firm's market valuation. That shows how badly Microsoft wants LinkedIn, which has a network ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-16
Microsoft Corp. unveiled "Project Scorpio", a new Xbox console that will support ultra-high resolution gaming and virtual reality, while also launching a slimmer version of its Xbox One console at the ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-14
Microsoft Corp. is buying professional networking site LinkedIn Corp. for US$26.2 billion in its biggest deal, with plans to turn itself into a major force in next-generation computing. LinkedIn will ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-14
... included Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio, China Mengniu Dairy Group (02319.HK) founder Niu Gensheng (牛根生), Beijing Orient Landscape founder and chairman He Qiao ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-30
Microsoft Corp. and Facebook Inc. have agreed to build an undersea cable across the Atlantic Ocean to meet growing demand for high-speed cloud and online services. The MAREA cable will begin construct ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-27
Microsoft Corp. will shed up to 1,850 jobs and write down US$950 million from its smartphone business, the company announced on Wednesday. The cuts came just two years after it bought handset maker No ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-26
