GeekWire

JULY 21, 2020

Microsoft President Brad Smith, Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood, and CEO Satya Nadella preparing to announce Microsoft’s plan to be carbon negative by 2030. Brian Smale / Microsoft Photo). The latest announcements include the largest single renewable energy investment Microsoft has ever made.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Alaska Airlines on Monday announced the launch of Alaska Star Ventures to invest in new aviation technologies as part of the airline’s goal to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2040. Our filter is how do we get our operation to net zero and what are technologies that can help us along that path,” said Rakow.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Climate Week is kicking off Monday in New York City and major companies including Amazon and Microsoft as well as Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy are sharing news of their efforts to decarbonize. Microsoft, which is also a Climate Pledge participate, had its own announcement today. Climate Pledge Arena Photo). The Redmond, Wash.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 22, 2024

While Kane shows clients how to save time and money using AI tools like Microsoft Copilot, many SMB customers still don’t see the value of generative AI in tasks like writing a newsletter, when the AI doesn’t have access to their internal data. They need to be shown how to really use the tool in order to use it effectively,” he says. “A

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GeekWire

JANUARY 24, 2025

GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Editors Note: Microsoft @ 50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giants past, present, and future, recognizing its 50th anniversary in 2025. Learn more and register here for our special Microsoft @ 50 event, March 20, 2025, in Seattle. This mirrors a common criticism of Microsoft products.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Jay Inslee this week proposed a new wealth tax to help generate revenue for government programs and address a multi-billion dollar budget shortfall. He also believes that high net worth individuals the people who make angel investments in startups and invest in venture capital funds will depart.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 3, 2013

IE zero-day vulnerability exploited more widely than previously thought - “A recently announced and yet-to-be-patched vulnerability that affects all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) has been exploited in targeted attacks against organizations in Taiwan since the beginning of July, according to security researchers.”

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GeekWire

AUGUST 4, 2020

A Microsoft Azure data center. Microsoft Photo). Microsoft is rolling out details of its third sustainability focus area : waste reduction. The initiative includes efforts on multiple fronts: Building “circular centers” for data centers that provide Azure and Microsoft 365 cloud services. Microsoft Photo).

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GeekWire

JANUARY 4, 2023

The state must cut emissions 45% below 1990 emissions levels by 2030, and continue ratcheting down emissions to net-zero by 2050. Tech giants including Amazon and Microsoft are investing in startups in these sectors and purchasing many of these technologies, and backed some of Washington’s climate policies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

Working in the British public sector, he’d seen a digitalization program fail because of command-and-control management, where gains achieved by a highly centralized approach quickly unravelled when the civil servant at the helm moved on. We’re caught between a rock and a hard place,” says Lowry.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2024

With more freelancers, contractors, and BYOD programs accessing corporate applications (like web and SaaS applications) via their own devices, oftentimes, what is overlooked is the security posture for the choice of web browsers people are using. So, what sets enterprise browsers apart? There’s a good reason for it.

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GeekWire

APRIL 17, 2024

Amazon bought naming rights to the arena, helping tout its commitment to reach net-zero carbon by 2040. Amazon, Microsoft, REI, BP America, the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and the Clean Tech Alliance, as well as climate startups including First Mode, Myno Carbon, and multiple solar companies are all supporting No on 2117.

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GeekWire

JUNE 27, 2020

He was 18 when they sold the company to Microsoft and joined the Redmond tech giant, forming the basis for its Mixer streaming platform and helping to lead its challenge to Amazon’s popular Twitch platform, before leaving last year. The Mixer studio on Microsoft’s Redmond campus in 2018. GeekWire File Photo / Nat Levy).

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

(Orbite Photo) After getting its start in Seattle and testing its business model in France and Florida, a space travel venture called Orbite is ready to start signing up customers for private-sector astronaut training programs. Prices for the five-night suborbital training program start at $49,500 per person.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 4, 2023

The chart below is what Amazon’s net sales look like in raw numbers over the past several years, broken down into the major business segments reported by the Seattle-based company. Here are the same results, expressed as a percentage of net sales. Amazon is undergoing a steady transformation under CEO Andy Jassy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Allys in-house development team built and runs the platform with the support of Allys cloud via AWS and Microsoft Azure OpenAI, though Muthukrishnan notes the platform is LLM-neutral. Casting a wider net The bank is working on a number of additional gen AI uses cases. For instance, its audit team is using Ally.ai

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Amazon’s investment in Anthropic echoes Microsoft’s multi-billion dollar investment in OpenAI. “Training state-of-the-art models requires extensive resources including compute power and research programs,” the company said in the post. ”

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GeekWire

JANUARY 7, 2021

Elon Musk appears to have passed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as the richest person on the planet as the Tesla CEO’s net worth reached around $185 billion on Thursday thanks to a surge in the electric car company’s stock. He passed Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as the second richest person in November. Twitter screenshot).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

More than 683 companies, 136 countries and 234 cities have made pledges to reach net-zero carbon emissions. Bringing together this cohort and acknowledging this is an important problem is a significant first step, said Lucas Joppa, Microsoft’s chief environmental officer. ” Microsoft was not evaluated.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 10, 2025

Microsoft: Playing its own game While Microsofts gaming division still turns a profit , its spent the last two console generations seemingly hard-locked in third place behind Sony and Nintendo. Microsoft’s final gamble was to bring the latest Call of Duty game, Black Ops 6 , to its Xbox Game Pass service at launch.

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GeekWire

JUNE 23, 2020

Amazon on Tuesday launched The Climate Pledge Fund , a new venture capital investment program that will funnel an initial $2 billion into startups building sustainable technologies across various industries such as transportation, food, manufacturing, and more. He has not released further details on where the money will go.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

In demos of Codex, OpenAI shows how the software can be used to build simple websites and rudimentary games using natural language, as well as translate between different programming languages and tackle data science queries. The real net effect is a lot of value for the ecosystem”.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Today’s technology leaders must deeply understand their organization’s financial health, from top-line revenue to net income. This summer, we automated the freight bills process, leveraging Microsoft Azure AI Document Intelligence. Measuring the outcomes of IT projects is essential for building credibility.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Wash. Microsoft in June announced a sweeping racial justice plan, including an initiative to spend $150 million on diversity and inclusion programs, and double its number of Black and African American managers and senior employees by 2025 in the U.S.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Catalyst is a program within the Microsoft co-founder’s Breakthrough Energy umbrella organization. The program’s focus is on quickly developing and deploying green hydrogen, batteries and energy storage, sustainable aviation fuels and direct air capture of carbon.

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GeekWire

JUNE 8, 2023

Limeade reported a net loss of $3 million in its most recent quarter, down from a net loss of $6.4 designs well-being programs for employers and health plans. It announced an integration with Microsoft Viva around the same time. million in the year-ago period. Revenue grew 13% to $14.3

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GeekWire

MARCH 10, 2022

Microsoft’s Chief Environmental Officer Lucas Joppa (left) and President Brad Smith. Microsoft Photo). Microsoft on Thursday released its annual Environmental Sustainability Report for 2021, covering its progress on goals for climate impacts, water conservation, waste reduction and ecosystem protection. The answer?

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2021

Breakthrough Energy Ventures is led by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and publicly launched in December 2016. Last summer, Amazon unveiled its $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund, a venture capital program directed at sustainable technologies that could help it fulfill its promise to become net carbon neutral by 2040.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Microsoft has been selling Surface Pro models with basically the same design since at least 2015. Across the internet, reviewers begged Microsoft to find a way to put the Pro 7’s chips in the Pro X’s chassis. And now, two years later, that’s exactly what Microsoft did. The $1,099.99-and-up But it’s a nice stylus overall.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 10, 2020

. “Many of our current and potential competitors enjoy substantial competitive advantages over us, such as greater name and brand recognition, longer operating histories, larger marketing budgets, and loyalty programs, as well as substantially greater financial, technical, and other resources,” the company wrote. billion in 2019.

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GeekWire

APRIL 28, 2021

Jenny Lay-Flurrie, chief accessibility officer for Microsoft. Microsoft Photo). Microsoft Chief Accessibility Officer Jenny Lay-Flurrie is thinking about disabilities in ways that many others are not. The company did not share the costs for these programs. Microsoft has been tackling disability issues for decades.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This summer, the accelerator accepted 10 early-stage companies in the latest round of the program. Microsoft in January created its $1 billion Climate Innovation Fund. The organization also runs the Cascadia CleanTech Accelerator in partnership with Seattle-based CleanTech Alliance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The perfect ESG software would encompass all lifecycle elements of an ESG strategy, be a potent program management tool, a risk management tool, provider of analytics, and a vehicle for accountability and verification.” That’s where the single source of truth comes into perspective and increases performance,” Karcher says.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Rajwat’s past employers include Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, Stanford University and others. Other former positions include leadership roles at the Gates Foundation and directing the global drug development program at PATH. David Willis, a longtime Microsoft executive, is now chairman of the board of directors for Zensai.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Several startup CEOs and current and former Microsoft employees testified in support of the bill , which would levy a 1% tax on intangible financial assets that belong to billionaires living in the state. They are Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

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GeekWire

MAY 19, 2021

Carlyle called out some of the state’s biggest corporations, including Microsoft, Amazon and Starbucks, as “real moral-authority thought leaders on climate.” Microsoft came out in support of the Climate Commitment Act, or Senate Bill 5126 , as did BP America and Vulcan, the company created by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

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Mick's IT Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2013

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