TOP SEVEN TECH COMPANIES ADDED VALUE WORTH $3.4 TRILLION IN 2020

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• Tesla founder Elon Musk made it to the list of top three richest people on the planet by adding over $120 billion in net worth

• Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Tesla and Nvidia added a total $3.4 trillion together in market cap in the year...

MICROSOFT PLEDGES TO END PASSWORDS BY THE END OF 2021

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• Microsoft has invested in many solutions like Windows Hello, Microsoft Authenticator, FIDO2 security keys along with a palm vein authentication system and few other

• As per the company, last year in November around 100 million people had used to Microso...

U.S. SECRETARY POMPEO ACCUSES RUSSIA OF BACKING A MASSIVE CYBERATTACK ON U.S.

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• Pompeo said “There was a significant effort to use a piece of third-party software to essentially embed code inside of US government systems

• Tech giant Microsoft on Thursday evening said it had notified over 40 customers hit by the malware

MICROSOFT WINS LEGAL BATTLE TO NOTIFY CLOUD CLIENT OF U.S. DATA INVESTIGATION

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• Microsoft Corp has won a legal battle to notify a client that federal prosecutors had demanded its email account information be turned over as part of a government investigation

• The subpoena on July 14 was inclusive of a secrecy provision that barred M...

U.S. GOVERNMENT, 48 STATES FILE LAWSUIT AGAINST FACEBOOK

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• This is the second major antitrust lawsuit filed by the U.S. government this year as the US Justice Department in October had dragged Google to the court over similar charges

• The Federal Trade Commission and New York Attorney General Letitia James said...

GOOGLE & U.S. FAIL TO REACH CONSENSUS OVER PROTECTIVE ORDER FOR FIRMS TIED TO LAWSUIT

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• The U.S. government has sued Google last month accusing them of illegally using its market muscle to hobble rivals in the biggest challenge to power and influence of Big tech over the period of last 10 years

• Google said in a court filing, that it is pu...

SONY’S PLAYSTATION 5 PRE-ORDERS OVERWHELM SUPPLY; GAME CONSOLE GOES ON SALE

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• Sony’s PlayStation 5 pre-orders overwhelm supply; game console goes on sale.
• New PlayStation 5 is said to be 100 times faster than PS4.
• The PS5 device comes in two versions.
• The PS5 device with an ultra H...

AFTER FACEBOOK, MICROSOFT MAKES SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS AGAINST IRANIAN HACKERS

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• According to the statement issued by Microsoft on Wednesday, it was successful in detecting attempts by the hacking group called Phosphorus to trick ex-government officials, academics and policy experts

• Iranian hackers targeted over 100 prominent peopl...

SK TELECOM TO LAUNCH T FACTORY TO SHOWCASE CLOUD GAMING SERVICE AMIDST APPLE AND MICROSOFT PRODUCTS

• SK Telecom Co., South Korea's largest wireless carrier, said Tuesday it will open a new flagship store by teaming up with Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
• The new store, christened T Factory, in the fashionable neighbourhood of Hongik University in western Seoul, will open on...

TECH GIANTS’ RELENTLESS WORK ON AI MIMICKING HUMAN LANGUAGE PROGRESSIVELY

• While artificial intelligence is slowly reducing the chasm between digital technology and everyday life, AI that speaks and coherently understands human language flawlessly is still a work in progress for tech firms.
• Google’s Duplex technology, for instance, has been givi...

UNITED KINGDOM: MICROSOFT HELD AN ONLINE SURVEY TO IDENTIFY TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES FROM HYBRID LEARNING

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• An online survey was held by Microsoft in the United Kingdom on the teachers to identify the technology challenges in the educational sector with Hybrid learning
• According to the survey, 88 percent of the teachers thinks that Covid-19 has ...

MICROSOFT PLANS TO BUILD DATA CENTRES IN GREECE WORTH 1 BILLION DOLLARS

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• The tech giant ‘Microsoft’ is planning to build three data centres in Greece worth 1 billion dollars
• The news was announced by Microsoft and the prime minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis

The tech giant Micr...

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMBINES WITH MICROSOFT TO ROLL OUT SEAMLESS 5G NETWORK ON AZURE PLATFORM

• Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it has locked hands with Microsoft Corp. to deliver cloud-based private 5G network solutions as the South Korean tech titan makes an effort to expand its presence in the next-generation communications sector.
• Samsung will engage its virtuali...

WITH AZURE ORBITAL, MICROSOFT OFFERS A SERVICE THAT CONNECTS SATELLITES TO CLOUD

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• Initially Azure Orbital will start in a private preview and cater to a selected group of Microsoft customers

• At present, Microsoft and Amazon are the two largest providers of cloud infrastructure, with data centers in remotest of the places and capable...

MICROSOFT TO ACQUIRE BETHESDA’S PARENT COMPANY ZeniMax FOR $7.5 BILLION

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• The plan is to bring Bethesda's future games into its monthly Xbox Game Pass subscription service at the time of launch on Xbox or PC said Microsoft

• Microsoft said the structure and leadership of Bethesda will not be changed and the ZeniMax deal wi...

SK TELECOM TAPS INTO DIGITAL CLOUD GAMING SERVICES IN LEAGUE WITH MICROSOFT

• SK Telecom Co., South Korea's foremost mobile carrier, said Wednesday it launched a cloud gaming portal in partnership with Microsoft Corp., joining other telecom operators to compete for a chunk of the burgeoning local cloud gaming market.
• The mobile carrier's 5GX Clou...

U.S. GOVERNMENT TO APPROVE ORACLE-TikTok DEAL ON TUESDAY: REPORT

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• Tech giant and one of the President Trump's favorite company, Oracle on Monday had confirmed of striking a deal with ByteDance

• CEO of Oracle Safra Catz previously took part in President Trump’s transition team, while Chairman Larry Ellison ha...

HACKERS FROM RUSSIA, CHINA AND IRAN ARE TARGETING TRUMP AND BIDEN'S CAMPAIGNS: MICROSOFT

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• As per the statement issued by Microsoft, more than 200 organisations have been targeted by the Russian hackers from the Strontium group, many of which are linked to the political parties in the U.S., both Republicans and Democrats

• Microsoft said Chine...

ByteDance LIKELY TO MISS US' SEPTEMBER 20 DEADLINE FOR TikTok DEAL

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• Before the arrival of new Chinese regulations, both Microsoft and Oracle had submitted their proposals and are still willing to purchase the U.S. arm of TikTok, and have not been discouraged by the involvement of Beijing

• As per the reports, without app...

WALMART JOIN FORCES WITH MICROSOFT TO BID FOR TIKTOK

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•       For Walmart this move to join Microsoft is a way of breaking into the technology and media domain

• Tiktok is being pursued by other bidders as well

As the talks for buying Tiktok continues, Walmart...