When President-elect Donald Trump “magnanimously” met with $3 trillion worth of Silicon Valley tech CEOs that actively opposed his candidacy, he very publicly booted Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey as payback for alleged bias against his campaign.
The incoming U.S. president really isn’t that scary, not even to Hillary Clinton donors in Silicon Valley.
Tuesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Microsoft founder Bill Gates revealed he had a phone conversation with President-elect Donald Trump in recent days. Part of that conversation, Gates said, dealt with Trump seeing areas where things could be improved. In that
(Reuters) — Web giants YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft will step up efforts to remove extremist content from their websites by creating a common database.
Microsoft has released a new AI chat bot under the name of “Zo” which refuses to talk about politics or anything controversial following the company’s PR disaster surrounding their last AI bot, Tay.
Microsoft has been forced to apologise after a perceived reference to a racial slur appeared in the subject line of a marketing email for the upcoming zombie-survival game Dead Rising 4.
When Microsoft revealed their own virtual reality headsets in October, they announced they would be much more affordable than competitors’ sets. Now, it appears they also won’t stress users’ computers too greatly.
Microsoft is attempting to lure users to its own Edge browser (formerly Internet Explorer) by creating pop-up “tips” that claim the browser to be safer than competitors.
On October 26, Microsoft doubled down on virtual reality by announcing their own VR headsets at the Windows 10 event.
Hillary Clinton’s State Department oversaw a government agency’s expenditure of millions of taxpayer dollars to help companies outsource American tech jobs to foreign countries.
Disney has significant advantages over other bidders to acquire Twitter. First, Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey serves on Disney’s Board of Directors. But the biggest advantage is that Disney owns a 33 percent stake in BAMTech, the tech spinout from Major League Baseball that owns the app powering Twitter’s streaming of NFL games on the web.
Microsoft announced that over 400 million people have now installed Windows 10, after previously declaring 350 million in July.
Speaking to The Telegraph, tech giant Microsoft vowed to “solve the problem of cancer” within a decade.
Google’s corporate motto is “Don’t Be Evil,” but after year of using its Washington, D.C. lobbying to trash other tech companies, the “Google Transparency Project,” funded by a secretive cabal of Silicon Valley interests, is producing a steady stream of investigative reporting exposés on Google’s crony capitalism.
Software giant Microsoft is the latest company to announce plans to crack down on “hate speech,” providing additional resources for users who report an incident.
Microsoft’s Saudi Arabian Vice President has issued an apology after the translation tool for its search engine, Bing, translated “Daesh” into “Saudi Arabia”.
Cisco Systems, Inc. announced August 17 that it will slash 5,500 jobs. The cuts are consistent with Silicon Valley tech terminations running almost double the pace of 2015.
Microsoft is planning to charge businesses a subscription cost of $7 per month per user to use Windows 10.
Tech giant Microsoft has joined fellow “progressive” Silicon Valley companies Google and Twitter, tweeting their support of “those committed to change around the world.”
A Californian woman has successfully sued Microsoft after Windows 10 auto-installed on her computer without permission and rendered the machine unusable.
Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft are banning a rifle emoji that would have otherwise become available on smartphones later this month.
Microsoft’s pre-E3 press conference was full of news, virtually all of it expected. Nevertheless, there were plenty of compelling reasons to get hyped for the next stage of the Xbox One’s lifespan.
NEW YORK (AP) — In a surprise move, Microsoft said Monday that it is buying professional networking service site LinkedIn for about $26.2 billion.
TEL AVIV – Microsoft has launched its latest R&D center in the predominantly Arab Israeli city of Nazareth, 25 years after it opened its doors to the first non-US R&D center in the Jewish state.
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich had scheduled a fundraiser with Donald Trump at his Silicon Valley home on June 1, but it had to be canceled after someone leaked it to the media.
Technology giants such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Microsoft have pledged to join forces in tackling “illegal hate speech” within 24 hours of it being reported.
A number of left, liberal-leaning groups rode to the defence of free speech this morning after it was announced that the European Commission in partnership with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft, would be heavily policing the internet for “hate speech”
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is arguably the most important event in the video game industry each year, and we’re excited to bring you an inside look at the event. There’s already plenty to talk about, however. First up, Microsoft.
The rise of Donald Trump and his “America First” platform is pushing tech CEOs even closer to the Democrat establishment, after two decades of Silicon Valley moguls being able to outsource millions of manufacturing jobs and still get huge government contracts.
the FCC wants to unlock the “set-top box” that brings cable television into your home, so you won’t have to rent those boxes from the cable companies any more.
Microsoft have confirmed that after 10 years of production and 85 million units sold, they will now cease to manufacture the Xbox 360.
Microsoft has added a scannable QR code to the infamous “Blue Screen of Death” crash display in their latest update for Windows 10.
Microsoft has issued an apology over their creation of an artificial intelligence program behind a Twitter account that began to post and retweet racist remarks.
The head of Microsoft’s Xbox division has apologized after the company hosted a party featuring female go-go dancers during the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last week.
For the first time in gaming history, one console manufacturer is preparing to support playing with consumers on a competing platform. Xbox Live is about to open its arms not just to PC, but also PlayStation 4 cross-platform play.
Microsoft is attempting to create a more intelligent and intuitive type of artificial intelligence by training computers to play Minecraft efficiently on their own, it announced in an official blog post.
Microsoft announced that it has ceased development of the next game in the Fable franchise and will close at least one of its game studios.
With the pubic distracted by the FBI battling Apple for an iPhone backdoor, President Obama is secretly working to trash President Ronald Reagan’s restrictions on the number of federal agencies that can spy on Americans and others.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates offered some muddled support for the government in the FBI’s standoff against Apple over data encryption, while his company has been a “tepid” supporter of Apple, in the estimation of The Verge… until today, when Microsoft announced it “wholeheartedly” supports the rival tech giant and will file a “friend of the court” brief on its behalf.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates, plus a slim majority of the public, are siding with the FBI’s demand that Apple help unlock the San Bernardino jihadi’s encrypted iPhone.
