Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Microsoft собирается ещё раз сократить штат компании по всему миру, на этот раз уволив около 700 человек, пишет Business Insider со ссылкой на собственные источники. Таким образом компания хочет оптимизировать рабочие процессы, указывает издание.... →

After a short preview in September last year, and the small matter of getting acquired for $26.2 billion by Microsoft, today LinkedIn — the social network for the professional world with some 470 million users — is finally unveiling its redesign of its desktop site, complete with a simpler, app-like look; a new messaging experience that appears as a pop-up on the homepage;… Read More... →

Microsoft тестирует возможность запуска голосового помощника Cortana с экрана блокировки Android.... →

Microsoft has been making notable improvements to the experiences on its Twitch competitor, Beam, since it purchased the startup this past August. A major update was just launched globally for the service which highlights a new faster video player, Xbox Live sign-ins, and a redesigned home page that makes the service’s various communities more visible to users. These features had… Read More... →

Salesforce announced today that it plans to open an engineering and innovation hub in the Seattle area, greatly expanding its presence there. Company co-founder Parker Harris says the office, which is located in the Nine Two Nine Office Tower in Bellevue, will be dedicated mostly to supporting the company’s artificial intelligence initiative, introduced last Fall, which… Read More... →

If you’re enrolled to the beta version of the Cortana app for Android, you’ve already got access to one of its more interesting updates in recent memory. As spotted by MSPoweruser, Microsoft has introduced a feature that brings its AI assistant front and center on Google’s mobile OS. Enabling “Add Cortana to my lock screen” will add a shortcut to the app directly… Read More... →

Big data firm DataSift, which taps and structures data from social networks to provide more insights into it, has added a new partner to its own network. The company has linked up with LinkedIn — the social network for the working world with 467 million users that was acquired by Microsoft recently for $26.2 million — to help develop a stronger marketing profile for LinkedIn… Read More... →

Microsoft is following its acquisition of Montreal-based Maluuba with additional investment in the city that’s become quite the artificial intelligence hotbed. Microsoft announced at Davos on Wednesday that it will be growing its research and design office there (which is what Maluuba will be post-acquisition) to double the size over the course of the next two years. Microsoft will also… Read More... →

TechCrunch is pleased to offer Microsoft Accelerator’s Tel Aviv Demo Day today at 6:30 p.m. local time, 8:30 a.m. PST. The Microsoft Accelerator is an immersive three- to six-month program aimed at helping entrepreneurs get through the challenges of building a company, finding customers and scaling to global markets. There are seven accelerators located around the world, from Seattle… Read More... →

InsideSales, a predictive analytics platform which helps salespeople focus on finding and engaging prospects at the right time and in the right way, announced a $50 million round today with a couple of strategic investors — Microsoft and the Irish government. The round was led by Polaris Capital, a long time investor, along with newcomers QuestMark Partners, and the Irish Strategic… Read More... →

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Simplygon, a company that develops 3D-optimization solutions for game developers and other industries that need to visualize 3D data. Simplygon’s SDK is used by many major game development studios and the company recently expanded into the AR/VR market, too. Given Microsoft’s push into AR with its Hololens project and VR with… Read More... →

Бывший вице-президент Microsoft Ци Лу назначен президентом и операционным директором группы компаний Baidu.... →

Just a day after it opened an augmented reality lab, China’s internet giant Baidu has beefed up on its AI talent after it announced the hiring of former Microsoft executive Qi Lu as COO. Read More... →

Устройство будет иметь два или три экрана, которые раскладываются и увеличивают площадь гаджета.... →

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Nintendo Switch to hit the market on March 3, San Francisco District Attorney brings lawsuit against Lily, Moon Express is going to the Moon and Microsoft buys AI startup Maluuba. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

Microsoft has acquired Canadian startup Maluuba, a company founded by University of Waterloo grads Kaheer Suleman and Sam Pasupalak that also participated in TechCrunch’s 2012 San Francisco Startup Battlefield competition. Maluuba focuses on natural language processing, in service of pursuing general artificial intelligence, or building computers that can think like people. The… Read More... →

Тринадцать крупнейших зарубежных технологических компаний зарегистрировались в российской Федеральной налоговой службе, чтобы выплачивать «налог на Google». Об этом сообщают «Ведомости» со ссылкой на заявление представителя ФНС. В налоговых органах зарегистрировались Apple, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Wargaming Group и другие компании. По словам представителя ФНС, уже с 25 апреля они начнут платить НДС по итогам каждого квартала. […]... →

Microsoft today unveiled the newest addition to its Office 365 suite with the debut of an application for shift workers and management, called StaffHub. The program is aimed at those who don’t tend to work from desktop computers and have different schedules from week to week, such as in retail, hospitality, restaurants, and other industries. The program was originally introduced in… Read More... →

Федеральная налоговая служба (ФНС) зарегистрировала 12 иностранных компаний, которые будут выплачивать «налог на Google», пишут «Ведомости» со ссылкой на представителя ФНС. В этот список вошли Google, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix и Wargaming и другие организации.... →