GeekWire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2022

For the first time in a century, we continue to live with a mix of restrictions on social interactions, travel, and assembly. Let us take a look at some companies that have risen to the occasion and leveraged this crisis situation to rethink organizational architecture and embark upon network orchestration. .

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

… Read More Amazon hires former Microsoft and SAP exec Julia White as new AWS marketing chief Julia White, a longtime Microsoft executive who spent the past four years at SAP, has been named the chief marketing officer and vice president at Amazon Web Services. … Read More GeekWire 200 update: A new No.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 19, 2023

Since Satya Nadella took the helm in 2014, Microsoft has doubled down on its support for non-Microsoft technologies. Its commitment to Linux turned what might have been a Windows Server-based cloud computing backwater into the Microsoft Azure powerhouse, the only public cloud to give the AWS juggernaut a serious run for its money.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Cisco is the dominant vendor in enterprise networking , and under CEO Chuck Robbins, it continues to shake things up. Cisco ties AppDynamics to Microsoft Azure for cloud application management Aug. 30, 2024 : Cisco is now offering its AppDynamics application management suite as part of Microsoft Azure cloud services.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

All these crucial areas take a major hit when a network attack happens. And, the unfortunate reality is that no network is immune. Why network security matters Before zooming in on specific attack methods, it's important to understand what network security is and why it's a top priority.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The Financial Times reported Wednesday that Microsoft has held talks in recent months to acquire Pinterest. The talks, which are “currently not active,” could have led to Microsoft’s largest acquisition to date, given Pinterest is valued upwards of $51 billion. Microsoft Azure trails AWS and Google Cloud is in third.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Luth Research will not go through your private messages or your personal social networking sites, nor will it collect any data you send through a secure private network. The companies interested in the data collected involve Subway, Microsoft, Walmart, the San Diego Padres, Nickelodeon, and Netflix.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Ghost ransomware actors, identified as operating from China, have been targeting unpatched systems and stolen credentials to infiltrate networks, encrypt data, and demand ransom payments. Network segmentation and monitoring Segment networks to prevent lateral movement. Use Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Its a step forward in terms of governance, trying to make sure AI is being used in a socially beneficial way. The next step for agents, she says, is pulling together communications from all the different channels, including email, chat, texts, social media, and more. Microsoft cant make a custom version just for me.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Over the last eighteen months or so, a motley group of teenagers under the banner of Lapsus$ managed to hack into “unbreachable” fortresses at tech giants such as Okta, T-Mobile, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Globant using unsophisticated but creative and persistent techniques. Every out-of-place event needs to be investigated.

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The Verge

MARCH 26, 2021

Community, community, community Microsoft is reportedly having discussions with Discord to buy the communications app. The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft is in “exclusive talks” to acquire Discord, and a deal could close next month. Microsoft wants its own community. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

These can be via social engineering, known as ‘hacking the human’, or via unsecured technology like apps, data and networks. Leveraging AI for cyber defences Microsoft Security Copilot is one tool that uses generative AI in such a way. Threats are also becoming more sophisticated as criminals deploy numerous attack vectors.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Here's a breakdown of the key principles, tools, and steps to implement a Zero Trust model that fortifies your network and access controls. Step 1: Rethink your security architecture Zero Trust requires securing every layer—network, applications, identity, and access—while enforcing least privilege.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Microsoft saw some big growth in Microsoft Teams at the beginning of the pandemic, and it has kept accelerating over the past six months. During an earnings call with investors today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reveled Microsoft Teams now has 115 million daily active users. Slack also saw some growth earlier this year.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2023

Mike Davidson , a Seattle technology veteran and longtime designer, is joining Microsoft as the corporate vice president of design and research. He succeeds Albert Shum , who left Microsoft in October after 15 years. Davidson said in a post on his blog that he was excited about the scale of the work he will be doing at Microsoft.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 15, 2022

Data limitations in Microsoft Excel. Dataset trained Microsoft chatbot to spew racist tweets. In March 2016, Microsoft learned that using Twitter interactions as training data for machine learning algorithms can have dismaying results. Microsoft released Tay, an AI chatbot, on the social media platform.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 5, 2022

Network: Network visualizations show how data sets are related to one another in a network. An example is a node-link diagram, also known as a network graph , which uses nodes and link lines to show how things are interconnected. What are some data visualization examples? It also features a drag-and-drop interface.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

These include redefining personal productivity, balancing diversity of thought and equity of experience, and re-evaluating networks and their effect on social capital.? By using tools like Microsoft Viva, employees can access personalized recommendations that help improve well-being and increase productivity.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2020

That’s when the upstart communication startup published an open letter to Microsoft in The New York Times , offering the tech giant an insincere “welcome” to the world of workplace chat software. The occasion was Microsoft’s launch of Teams , a Slack clone that would come bundled with the company’s popular Office 365 suite of products.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Yes, there was a game called Omikron: The Nomad Soul, starring a virtual David Bowie, released in 1999 for Microsoft Windows. No, the game was not made by Microsoft. Suggesting that Bill Gates had anything to do with it is like calling Apple CEO Tim Cook the mastermind behind Facebook because the social network runs on iPhone.

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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

JULY 31, 2021

Satya Nadella at Microsoft Ignite 2016, two years into his tenure as Microsoft CEO and a few months after announcing the company’s acquisition of LinkedIn. When Microsoft announced its acquisition of LinkedIn for more than $26 billion five years ago , there was lots of skepticism, and for good reason.

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TechSpot

MAY 19, 2023

Alex Spiro, who has been Elon Musk's personal lawyer for several years now, has sent a letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on behalf of Twitter. The letter claims that the Redmond corporation abused its relationship with the crumbling social network, violating Twitter's development agreement "for an extended period of.

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GeekWire

MAY 5, 2021

To alleviate India’s severe oxygen shortage, Microsoft worked with the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum to provide oxygen concentration devices to healthcare facilities in India. FedEx Photo via Microsoft). Taking action: In a blog post Wednesday, Kate Behncken, head of Microsoft Philanthropies, laid out what the Redmond, Wash.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Unfortunately, many young women are still socialized to behave a certain way and think they can and can’t do specific tasks and activities. But there’s still the problem of a lack of intentional pipelining, says Lillian Barnard, president of Microsoft Africa.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Microsoft reached a deal to acquire AT&T’s advertising technology division, Xandr , seeking to strengthen its own advertising business as the industry shifts away from online tracking technologies. AT&T says in a footnote on its news release that the Microsoft acquisition not include the DirecTV ad sales business.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Microsoft's Threat Intelligence team has uncovered a new ransomware threat actor, Storm-050, targeting various critical sectors in the U.S., They stole credentials and used them to gain control of the network, eventually creating persistent backdoor access to the cloud environment and deploying ransomware to the on-premises.

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

We are one of many, and we’re excited to add a consumer social company to that mix.” Year-over-year revenue growth of 566% was fueled in part by the pandemic and trends toward social gatherings online. Gaming company or social company? I think in a lot of ways gaming is the new social.”

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GeekWire

JULY 27, 2021

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Microsoft posted quarterly profits of $16.5 The results close out Microsoft’s 2021 fiscal year with fresh evidence that its business has been strengthened by the digital acceleration brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Microsoft acquired the business social network for $26.2

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GeekWire

JULY 28, 2021

The way they were: In this Microsoft photo from 2016, Jeff Weiner, left, then LinkedIn’s CEO, poses with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, now on the Microsoft board. Microsoft’s biggest acquisition just joined the ranks of its biggest businesses.

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2021

But in looking at Facebook’s engineering practices — the way the company makes stuff — the book examines the digital DNA of the social network, sheds new light on its most infamous motto, and explains the inner workings of a company that wants to reshape the human experience, again.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Microsoft gave an update on its Secure Future Initiative. Charlie Bell, EVP of Microsoft Security, in 2022. The deputy CISOs report directly to Microsoft’s Chief Information Security Office, led by Igor Tsyganskiy as Microsoft’s CISO. government officials. and Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft beat Wall Street’s expectations across its key financial metrics for its first quarter of fiscal 2025 , as artificial intelligence contributed 12 percentage points, a new high, to a 33% increase in the company’s Azure cloud revenue. per share. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 7, 2023

Dice defines a growing tech hub as a city with universities and colleges to recruit from, venture funding opportunities, a strong social scene for networking, and existing companies looking to hire talent. Seattle Seattle was the birthplace to some of the world’s largest tech companies such as Microsoft and Amazon. Raleigh, N.C.

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GeekWire

MARCH 19, 2025

Upadhya previously spent close to seven years at social media analytics company Simply Measured as head of product and more than three at Microsoft as a market analyst and search account manager. The co-founders previously held leadership roles at Seattle-based consulting firm PointB, and Mackey spent eight years at Microsoft.

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Tech Republic

JULY 19, 2022

Hybrid work makes work social networking more important than ever, so Microsoft is updating the way Yammer works inside Teams and Outlook. The post Viva Engage and Microsoft Stories put the connections of Yammer inside Teams appeared first on TechRepublic.

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