Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

The $68.7 billion gaming mega-merger between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard is facing in-depth competition scrutiny in the European Union. EU regulators had been taking a preliminary look at the proposed deal, after the transaction was notified to the bloc’s regulators at the end of September. But today the Commission confirmed it will open a deeper […] Microsoft’s $68.7BN play for Activision heads for in-depth EU antitrust probe too by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch... →

Microsoft Bing seems to be testing animated ads in the Bing image search interface. The ads look like an interactive banner ad of some sort, based on your query.... →

Apple, Microsoft и Amazon вновь возглавили рейтинг... →

It seems that every internet company and their dog have at least one venture capital (VC) arm under their wing, with the likes of Google Ventures (now GV), Microsoft Ventures (now M12), Salesforce Ventures, Twilio Ventures, and Zoom Ventures all serving their corporate namesakes potential cash cows via hundreds of equity investments. Today, it’s Mozilla’s […] Mozilla launches $35M venture capital fund for early-stage ‘responsible’ startups by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Microsoft has backed Wemade, a popular video game developer that has made aggressive bets on blockchain in recent years, the latest sign of tech giants’ showing growing interest in web3. South Korea’s Wemade said in a press release that it has raised $46 million in a funding round from Microsoft, Shinhan Asset Management and Kiwoom […] Microsoft backs web3 game developer Wemade by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

Microsoft Advertising announced a few upgrades to the Google Ads Performance Max import tool before the holiday season. Most of it is around importing Performance Max campings that use a Merchant Center but not all.... →

It’s been four years to the day since Microsoft closed its acquisition of GitHub, which at the time was mostly a code repository. Today’s GitHub looks quite a bit different, now that it added CI/CD tools with GitHub Actions and Codespaces as an online editor and compute platform, as well as various security tools and […] Four years after being acquired by Microsoft, GitHub keeps doing its thing by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

Valence Security, a company securing business app infrastructure, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series A round led by M12, Microsoft’s corporate venture arm, with participation from YL Ventures, Porsche Ventures, Akamai Technologies, Alumni Ventures and former Symantec CEO Michael Fey. The new capital brings the company’s total raised to $32 million, […] Valence Security raises fresh capital to secure the SaaS app supply chain by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Both Google (Alphabet) and Microsoft (Bing) have announced earnings last night and both companies are down over 5% in pre-marketing trading after the news. Google's ad revenue was up only 4.2%, while Microsoft's search ad revenue, mostly from Bing, seemed to be up way more, at 16% - year over year.... →

Microsoft Bing is showing the search box in the bottom right corner, when you scroll down the search results page and your browser window is wide enough to fit it. Otherwise, Bing will show a floating magnifying glass to click on and activate your search box.... →

Blizzard has a lot going on. The company’s leadership is a toxic trash heap nightmare (hi Bobby Kotick!) and it’s only partially cleaned house. Its failure to deliver on the lofty promises of the Overwatch League makes the game’s scene, both competitive and casual, even less of a sure thing. And Microsoft is currently in […] Overwatch 2 Review: Can you teach an old game new tricks? by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch... →

As part of its earnings call, Microsoft today announced a number of new data points for GitHub, the massively popular code repository service it acquired for $7.5 billion in 2018. According to Microsoft, GitHub now has an annual recurring revenue of $1 billion, up from a reported $200 to $300 million at the time of […] Microsoft says GitHub now has a $1B ARR, 90M active users by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

At its Build conference in May, Microsoft debuted Project Volterra, a device powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform designed to let developers explore “AI scenarios” via Qualcomm’s Neural Processing SDK for Windows toolkit. Today, Volterra — now called Windows Dev Kit 2023 — officially goes on sale, priced at $599 and available from the Microsoft Store […] Microsoft’s Windows Dev Kit 2023 lets developers tap AI processors on laptops by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Matt Butcher and Radu Matei worked on container technologies for years, “containers” in this context referring to software packages containing all the necessary elements to run in any environment, from desktop PCs to servers. As engineers at Deis, and then DeisLabs once Microsoft acquired it in 2017, their team explored the container landscape and built […] Fermyon raises $20M to build tools for cloud app dev by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

На торговые счета вернут 680 наименований — в том числе Apple, Dell, Microsoft, Coca-Cola и других.... →

As the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigates Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft recently revealed in its filings with the CMA that it plans to create a new “Xbox Mobile Platform” that will include mobile games by Activision and King. “The transaction will improve Microsoft’s ability to create a next-generation game […] Microsoft looks to build an Xbox mobile gaming store with Activision and King content by Lauren Forristal originally published on Tech... →

Microsoft Bing is testing a new feature in Bing Search in the news section of the search results. The feature is titled "more on this topic from" and it shows a list of news publication's logos that you can click on to see more news from that specific publication.... →

Hi, friends! It’s time for another edition of Week in Review, the newsletter where we quickly recap the most read TechCrunch stories from the past seven days. Want it in your inbox every Saturday morning? Sign up here. most read LEGS: The company formerly known as Facebook held its Meta Connect conference this week, where […] Meta announces legs, Hulu raises prices, and Microsoft embraces DALL-E 2 by Greg Kumparak originally published on TechCrunch... →

Meta’s Connect conference held earlier this week had announcements ranging from the new $1,500 Quest Pro headset to the company’s partnership with Microsoft to bring productivity tools to VR. However, probably one of the most discussed updates was that Meta is finally bringing legs to its virtual avatars. Until now, Horizon Worlds users — which […] Meta’s legs update is not on the horizon yet by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch... →

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