Tag: Microsoft
MICROSOFT in IT industry’s biggest deal to buy Activision Blizzard
Microsoft is buying Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard for US$68.7-billion (that’s over a trillion rand, if you do the conversion) in the biggest gaming...
Microsoft poaches chip expert from Apple
Microsoft has poached a experienced chip architect away from Apple with the goal of creating custom semiconductors for its Azure cloud service, Bloomberg reported.
The report...
Microsoft appoints Angela Kyeremanten-Jimoh as Africa lead
Tech giant and software developer Microsoft has appoint Ghanaian IT expert,
Angela Kyeremanten-Jimoh as the Strategic Partner Lead for Africa.
Ms. Kyeremanten-Jimoh who will be operating from...
Big Tech record US$2.51 trillion increase in MARKET VALUE in 2021
The five top Big Tech firms in the world reportedly recording a whopping US$2.5 trillion plus in market value in the year 2021.
Bloomberg...
Yahoo quits China
Yahoo, the dot-com pioneer that’s now part of Apollo Global Management’s media empire, is getting out of China because of the mounting hurdles to doing...
Microsoft also downplays Facebook’s metaverse hype
Microsoft President Brad Smith has subtly joined top tech executives downplaying Facebook's metaverse, saying that the technology sector needs to compromise with regulators and...
Netflix launches first game on smartphones
Netflix is launching its first games worldwide as it seeks to break into the game subscription market.
Starting Tuesday, the company will roll out updates...
Microsoft is now world’s most valuable company, unseats Apple
Bill Gates' Microsoft has reportedly topple Steve Jobs' Apple to become the world’s most valuable public company.Â
This was largely due to a consistent drop...
Microsoft poised to unseat Apple as world’s most valuable company again
Microsoft reportedly put up another stellar third quarter performance, fueled by growth of its cloud computing business, making the software giant poised to unseat...
Ecobank, Microsoft upskill Africa’s SMEs to succeed in a digital economy
The leading pan-African banking group, Ecobank Group, in partnership with Microsoft, LinkedIn, GitHub and Ecobank Academy is set to provide training to equip small...