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Bill Gates Scoots Microsoft Over His Alleged Affair's Investigation, Claim Reports
In a new revelation, the Wall Street Journal reports claim that co-founder Bill Gates left Microsoft after he was scrutinised by the board for his alleged affair with an employee back in 2000. Reportedly, the company board hired a law firm in 2019 for investigation but Gates resigned before the investigation was complete. However, Gates’ spokesperson claimed that his resignation "was in no way related to the matter.”
Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft, Affair, Resignation
Courtesy: The Times of India
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Bill Gates, Wife Melinda Decide To Split After 27 Years Of Marriage
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda on May 4 took to Twitter and announced they have decided to split their ways after 27 years of marriage. The philanthropist duo, who have three children, will continue to work together on their charity organization Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Gates stated, "We no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in this next phase of our lives."
Tags: Bill Gates, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Divorce, Microsoft
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Microsoft Plans To Buy Discord For More Than $10 Billion: Report
Tech giant Microsoft is in talks to acquire popular messaging platform Discord for a whopping sum of $10 billion. Reportedly, Discord has reached out to possible buyers, including Microsoft, but is uncertain if the company will go public and not sell itself. Meanwhile, amid the gaming companies seeing an incline in their prospects due to the pandemic, the US-based gaming company Robolax aced the market by going public through a direct listing… read-more
Tags: Discord, Microsoft, Covid-19, Gaming
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Hate Crimes Against Asian-Americans Increased Over 15x In 2020
Asian-American advocacy groups have revealed that incidents of abuse in the US against the community increased from 216 (2019) to over 3,000 during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated to be "appalled" by the rise and assured he is "united with the Asian and Asian-American community...against this injustice". Earlier, POTUS Joe Biden had affirmed that hate against Asians is "un-American" and legislation to curb… read-more
Tags: US, Microsoft, Satya Nadella, Racism, Hate Crime, Joe BIden, Asian American
Courtesy: Deccan Herald
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Microsoft Launches Transcribe App For Real-Time Translation Of Chats
Microsoft has come up with Microsoft Group Transcribe app that eyes to translate users' chats in real time. Launched by the company's experimental department 'Garage', the app uses multi-device approach to provide high quality transcriptions and translations to enhance users' experience in meetings. In addition, the transcriptions gets automatically saved for sharing and reviewing purposes. Currently, the app has only been released for iOS… read-more
Tags: iOS, Microsoft, Bill Gates, Technology
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Microsoft Edge Browser Gets New Kids Mode
Microsoft has introduced a Kids Mode in its Edge browser to facilitate safe internet browsing for children between 5-12 years. While the feature is currently available for Edge Insiders in Microsoft’s Canary and Development testing channels, a mass rollout will transpire after successful primary testing. Without requiring a child account, the kids mode renders custom browser themes, child-friendly content, Bing SafeSearch, parent-controlled… read-more
Tags: Microsoft, Microsoft Edge, Kids Mode, BingeSafeSearch
Courtesy: News 18
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Microsoft India Launches New Hybrid Cloud Solution For Organizations
Microsoft India has introduced ‘Azure Stack hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)’ - a new hybrid cloud solution allowing organisations to tap advanced hybrid cloud capabilities. Added to the Azure Stack portfolio, HCI is compatible with Windows and Linux virtual devices and will be offered by 20 partners housing Microsoft-approved hardware systems. The solution aims to assist businesses in flexibility to provide on-premises virtualisation… read-more
Tags: Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, CLOUD SOLUTIONS, HCI, Linux
Courtesy: The Hindu
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Volkswagen, Microsoft To Collab For Developing Self-driving Software
Volkswagen AG will join hands with Microsoft Corp to employ the latter's cloud computing services to enhance its software improvement efforts directed at automated driving. The renowned automobile brand had independently started operating on both self-driving cars and driver-assistance innovations, including the currently available cruise control feature. Reportedly, the collaboration would allow Volkswagen to maintain a singular cloud-based… read-more
Tags: Volkswagen, Microsoft, Cloud Computing, automated driving, Self Driven Cars
Courtesy: The Indian Express
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7-Year-Old Odisha Boy Clears Programming Exams Conducted By Microsoft
In a rare achievement, 7-year-old Venkat Raman Patnaik from Odisha's Balangir district cleared five Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) examinations. Raman, a third grade student cleared the exams for programming in Java, Javascript, Python, HTML and CSS, after a year enrolled for WhiteHat Jr's Silicon Valley programme. He also outran 26 finalists of the program with his self-developed app 'Let's Reward Kids'. Moreover, the boy has also been… read-more
Tags: Odisha, Balangir, Microsoft, WhiteHat Jr, Silicon Valley
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Video Sharing App Josh Gets Funding From Google, Microsoft
After Chinese-owned app 'TikTok' had been banned, a local short-video app 'Josh' has raised more than $100 million from investors like Google and Microsoft. After the investment, the Bengaluru-based 'Josh' has been valued at $1 billion. Earlier in September, 'ShareChat' had raised around $40 million from Twitter.Inc and Lightspeed Ventures for its new platform 'Moj'. According to Google's Play Store, both 'Josh' and 'Moj' have around 50… read-more
Tags: Google, Microsoft, TikTok, Indian App Store
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