Microsoft has won approval from the European Union for its US$26 billion bid for professional social network LinkedIn, its largest ever acquisition. The US giant clinched the deal after agreeing to a ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-07
US tech giants including Facebook, Twitter, Google's YouTube and Microsoft are being asked to act faster to tackle online hate speech or face laws forcing them to do so. The European Commission issued ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-05
Reuters Microsoft is set to gain EU approval for its US$26 billion purchase of professional social network LinkedIn, with changes to concessions aimed at addressing competition concerns. Microsoft la ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-25
... Apple and Microsoft are a key part of the nation’s economy. If Trump successfully grows the economy, they, too, will gain. For instance, when households have more disposable income, people tend to buy ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-17
... ctice put Microsoft in the EU crosshairs, eventually resulting in millions of euros of fines for the US software company. Commission spokesman Ricardo Cardoso confirmed receipt of Google's response. L ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-11
Donald Trump's White House victory moves Apple, Pfizer, Microsoft and other big US corporations much closer than they have been in years to winning a big tax break on US$2.6 trillion in foreign profit ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-11
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
