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Microsoft Backs EU Laws Despite Trump's Disapproval In Big Tech Dispute, Expands European Data Centers
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - 9:37am | 685Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) President Brad Smith has declared the company’s commitment to adhering to European laws, a stance that starkly contrasts with the White House’s disapproval of the EU’s recent sanctions on Big Tech. What Happened: As per a Wednesday blog post...
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Microsoft Pulls Plug On AI Data Center Leases, Says Analyst: Oversupply Situation Likely
Monday, February 24, 2025 - 8:08am | 497Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) has reportedly begun to cancel leases for a significant portion of its AI data center capacity in the United States, as per a recent report by TD Cowen. What Happened: TD Cowen disclosed on Friday that Microsoft has nullified leases equivalent to “a couple...
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'Groking Will Become Like Googling' – Elon Musk's High Ambitions For xAI's First AI Product Involves Making It A Verb
Sunday, November 5, 2023 - 10:02pm | 733During the weekend, Elon Musk’s xAI finally released its first AI model, Grok, and the tech billionaire doesn’t want it to just compete with existing platforms like OpenAI’s ChatGPT but become a verb like “googling.” What Happened:...
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Microsoft Focuses Aggressively On Cloud Ahead Of Fiscal Q4 Earnings Report
Monday, July 26, 2021 - 4:43pm | 1705The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) shook the heavens of commerce and capital when it shattered the $2 trillion market cap barrier last month....
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New JEDI Contract Bidding Coming Up
Friday, July 16, 2021 - 10:17am | 757After more than a year and a half since the so-called JEDI contract was awarded to Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Pentagon officials announced that they are canceling the massive cloud-computing deal. Although the Department of Defense representatives stated technical issues as the main reasons for the...
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This Week's Market Recap: June 18, 2021
Friday, June 18, 2021 - 4:08pm | 797The market and the economy continue to open, which is probably a result of bottled-up demand for many products and services affected by the pandemic. Maybe the inflation or rising bond yields will trigger the selloff on the market at some moment, but the current Fed's transitory inflation...
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Oracle Beats Microsoft In TikTok Bidding Contest To Avoid Ban
Sunday, September 13, 2020 - 8:19pm | 494Oracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL) is set to take over the U.S. operations of video-sharing app TikTok, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Redwood City, California-based company beat out fellow tech rival Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) in a bidding war that would reportedly not...
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New Mexico Accuses Google Of Violating Children's Data Privacy, Files Lawsuit
Friday, February 21, 2020 - 7:29am | 417New Mexico has sued Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google for allegedly violating children’s data privacy. What Happened A lawsuit filed by New Mexico’s attorney general Hector Balderas on Thursday alleged that Alphabet-owned Google collected information such as...
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Two Reasons Why Microsoft May Want a Piece of Dell
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 4:41pm | 603Why Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is taking a seat at the negotiation table for Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) isn’t clear, but according to multiple sources Tuesday, the company is doing just that. The company is in talks with private equity firm Silver Lake Partners to invest $1 to $3 billion in a leveraged...
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eBay Stacking Up The Acquisitions
Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 10:13am | 346If eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) should know how to do anything, its bid on and get something that they want. For years, sellers have used the service to get the best possible price for something they own, while buyers have used it to pay the lowest possible price for something they want. All the while, eBay...
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Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Could Strike Data-mining Deal With Twitter
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 8:43am | 87Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Could Strike Data-mining Deal With Twitter According to sources, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) could soon integrate the twitter microblogging service’s full feed into Bing's search results. News on the deal are expected today at the Web 2.0 Summit conference in San...