Microsoft
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Microsoft has announced significant commitments to build new cloud and AI infrastructure in Thailand.
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Microsoft has announced it will invest $2.9 billion to increase its hyperscale cloud computing and AI infrastructure in Japan.
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Microsoft AI, the newly launched Microsoft organisation that is tasked with helping the company advance its consumer AI products has announced it is opening an AI hub in London.
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Microsoft has scored a substantial victory in the quest to dominate the AI marketplace by recruiting Suleyman, who brings with him his Inflection co-founder, Karén Simonyan and other key team members.
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At Nvidia’s GTC event yesterday, Microsoft and Nvidia announced an expansion to their technology partnership that will see integrations leveraging the latest Nvidia generative AI and Omniverse technologies across Microsoft Azure, Azure AI services, Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft 365.
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Microsoft is set to expand its AI and cloud infrastructure in Spain, with an investment of US$2.1 billion over the next two years.
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Nokia and A1 Austria (A1) have completed the industry’s first 5G edge cloud network slicing with Microsoft.
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Cisco has transmitted 800Gbps on the Amitié trans-Atlantic subsea cable, which spans 6,234km from Boston, Massachusetts to Bordeaux, France.
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Vodafone and Microsoft have inked a 10-year strategic partnership to bring generative AI, digital services and the cloud to more than 300 million businesses and customers across Europe and Africa.
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OpenAI and Microsoft, its chief financial backer, have been hit with another lawsuit by a pair of nonfiction authors, Reuters reports.
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has opened an early opportunity for parties to comment on the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI.
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OpenAI has been at the centre of much drama over the past few days after co-founder and CEO Sam Altman was ousted from the company.
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Sam Altman, the co-founder and former CEO of OpenAI is heading to Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team.
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The Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) is set to announce its decision on the updated US$75 billion merger between Microsoft and Activision.
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Microsoft and Kyndryl have joined forces to enable the adoption of enterprise-grade generative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for businesses on the Microsoft Cloud.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft have noted their opposition to a plan to refer the UK cloud market for investigation into anti-competitive behaviour.
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Meta will partner with Microsoft to give businesses the opportunity to develop their own use cases
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Microsoft has won its court case against the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), potentially clearing the way to acquire Activision in a deal worth US$68.7 billion.
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Microsoft has reacted furiously to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) blocking its US$68.7 billion deal to buy gaming firm Activision.
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Siemens and Microsoft will use artificial intelligence (AI) to boost innovation and efficiency across the design, engineering, manufacturing and operational lifecycle of products.
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Microsoft has signed a yet another 10-year deal, this time with EE to deliver cloud gaming services to a greater range of users.
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The UK telecoms regulator is to refer the cloud business, particularly Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft, to the markets regulator.
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e& has entered into a partnership with Microsoft to integrate the Azure OpenAI’s GPT into its internal operations and processes.
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Messaging company Twilio has appointed Microsoft’s Charlie Bell to its board of directors.
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NTT Ltd (NTT) confirms the launch of its Managed Detection and Response (MDR) security service giving companies improved cyber resilience.
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Liquid Intelligent Technologies and Microsoft’s Airband Initiative have pledged to bring connectivity to 20 million underserved people in Africa by 2025.
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BICS has partnered with Microsoft to enable roaming for private networks.
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New data from Synergy Research Group shows that fourth-quarter enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services exceeded US$61 billion worldwide.
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Microsoft confirms the third phase of its long-term partnership with OpenAI through an undisclosed multiyear, multibillion dollar investment.
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Microsoft confirms the acquisition of Fungible, a provider of composable infrastructure aimed at accelerating networking and storage performance in data centres.
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Lumen Technologies has hired former Microsoft executive Ashley Haynes-Gaspar as executive VP for customer success, wholesale and international.
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Spainish infrastructure company Ferrovial has been instructed by Microsoft to build its data centre near Madrid.
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Microsoft and Viasat, the satellite company that is hoping to buy Inmarsat, have formed a partnership to help deliver the internet access to 10 million people.
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Microsoft has bought Lumenisity, a UK-based start-up that makes hollow-core fibres that allow light to travel faster than along standard fibres.
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An estimated US$5-6 billion will be invested in carrier-neutral data centres in Africa in the next three to five years according to Console Connect’s Africa Interconnection report.
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MTN Group and Microsoft have formed a strategic alliance to accelerate digital and cloud transformation across Africa.
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Telecom Infra Project (TIP) has launched a metaverse-ready networks project group aimed at enhancing opportunities to deliver experiences across various industries.
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Meta has revealed it will bring new content to its metaverse hardware as a result of a deeper partnership with Microsoft.
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Kyndryl and Microsoft are planning to expand their existing partnership by helping customers expand and increase access to mainframe data.
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Microsoft and Zoom’s UCaaS subscriber base grew by 40% compared to last year, according to new research from Synergy Research group.
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Spending on premise and cloud collaboration grew 8% from 2021 and is now approaching US$15 billion per quarter, according to new research from Synergy Research Group.
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EdgeConneX now offers its customers in Portland access to Microsoft cloud services through the Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute service at its Portland Edge Data Center (EDC).
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SES and Microsoft have expanded their partnership through a new initiative to make satellite cloud-native service delivery architectures more open, virtualised and programmable.
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Microsoft confirms the launch of its new data centre region in Qatar, making it the first hyperscale cloud provider to offer enterprise-grade services in the country.
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Microsoft has appointed Kunle to lead its Africa transformation office, which drives its strategic digital initiatives in the continent.
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Spending on digital identity verification checks will reach US$20.8 billion globally in 2027 according to a new study from Juniper Research.
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Telstra and Microsoft have expanded their partnership to support Australia’s digital growth.
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Cloud communications company Infobip has enhanced its partnership with Microsoft by integrating its WhatsApp and SMS channels to help businesses.
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Founding members, which include the likes of Epic Games, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Qualcomm, confirm the launch of the Metaverse Standards Forum.
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Cisco has ended its operations in Russia and Belarus in response to the war in Ukraine, the company announced on Thursday.
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Orange and Capgemini’s joint venture cloud project, Bleu, is expected to be supporting clients in preparing for their migration by the end of 2022.
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Five hyperscalers make up the world’s five most valuable brands, according to the latest brand-value survey, and two others are also in the top 10.
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The total investment in global data centre infrastructure more than doubled in 2021 to US$53.8 billion.
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Telefonica Tech has announced the acquisition of European Microsoft Cloud solutions provider BE-terna for up to €350million from Deutsche Private Equity.