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Microsoft quarterly results saved by cloud computing

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 25 08:14 AM

Microsoft on Tuesday said sales slowed and profits slumped in the last quarter of 2022 as a darkening economic outlook pushed it to lay off 10,000 workers. Read more »

Google making smartwatch in 'ambient' computing push

Glenn Chapman, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 12 08:28 AM

Google said it is strapping a smartwatch onto its Pixel hardware line as part of an "ambient computing" vision to make its services available anywhere at any time. Read more »

Alibaba Cloud, Fintech Alliance.ph launch sandbox program to boost digital finance

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 02 12:45 PM

Alibaba Cloud said it is working with the Fintech Alliance.ph to launch a sandbox program to support the growth of digital finance in the Philippines. Read more »

Microsoft sees strong earnings on cloud computing

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 26 10:31 AM

Microsoft beat market expectations with strong quarterly performance in cloud computing and software, still benefitting from the pandemic's online shifting of work, play, shopping and learning. Read more »

Microsoft hires key Apple engineer to design server chips

Reuters
Posted at Jan 13 08:13 AM

Microsoft Corp hired a key Apple Inc engineer to design its own chips for its servers, Bloomberg News reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter. Read more »

Intel shows research for packing more computing power into chips beyond 2025

Stephen Nellis, Reuters
Updated as of Dec 13 08:31 AM

Research teams at Intel Corp unveiled work that the company believes will help it keep speeding up and shrinking computing chips over the next ten years, with several technologies aimed at stacking parts of chips on top of each other. Read more »

Amazon cloud outage hits major websites, streaming apps

Eva Mathews, Reuters
Posted at Dec 08 10:23 AM

A major outage disrupted Amazon's cloud services on Tuesday, temporarily knocking out streaming platforms Netflix and Disney+, and others. Read more »

Get full degree from top universities through Coursera

Jessica Fenol, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 17 05:00 PM

Get undergraduate or graduate degrees from some of the world's top universities without leaving your home through Coursera. Read more »

UK spy chiefs seal cloud data deal with Amazon: FT

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 26 08:52 PM

UK intelligence agencies have entrusted classified data to Amazon in a deal designed to vastly speed up their espionage capabilities. Read more »

Adapting to the fibers of our being: MSMEs and technology

Allister Roy S. Chua
Posted at Oct 07 12:58 AM

It’s not only easy for MSMEs to adapt to technology in these times, but it’s also easy to start a business through embracing the digital realm. Read more »

Microsoft protests Amazon win of big US cloud contract

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 13 02:48 PM

Microsoft on Thursday confirmed it is challenging a decision to award a multi-billion-dollar cloud computing contract to its rival Amazon. Read more »

Spending on cloud computing hits $42 billion worldwide: tracker

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Apr 30 09:19 AM

A record-high $41.8 billion was spent on cloud computing in the recently ended quarter as businesses leaned heavily on the internet to survive the pandemic, market tracker Canalys said on Thursday. Read more »

Google sales top estimates on ad surge; Alphabet plans $50B buyback

Paresh Dave and Subrat Patnaik, Reuters
Posted at Apr 28 07:00 AM

The results are the first sign that Google services may hold on to gains in usage brought on by lockdowns and other pandemic restrictions. Read more »

Microsoft wins $22 billion US army contract for augmented reality gear

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 01 06:41 AM

SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft has won a massive Pentagon contract for augmented reality headgear for soldiers worth $21.88 billion over the next decade, the company and the US military announced Wednesday. Read more »

PH firms 'fairly aggressive' in demand for apps, analytics, cloud adoption: Amazon Web Services

Nika Lazo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 26 05:11 PM

The demand of Philippine firms for mobile applications and data analytics is "fairly aggressive", and is driving the growth for cloud adoption in the Philippines. Read more »

Only 20 pct of data on cloud, remaining 80 pct is a $1-T opportunity: IBM

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 01 02:24 PM

IBM's Global Technology Services General Manager Saad Toma told ANC on Monday that only 20 percent of data are on the cloud, which presents a $1-trillion market opportunity for cloud companies to put the remaining 80 percent on the cloud.   Read more »

Microsoft earnings rise as pandemic boosts cloud computing, Xbox sales

Stephen Nellis and Akanksha Rana, Reuters
Posted at Jan 27 06:34 AM

Microsoft Corp on Tuesday reported its Azure cloud computing services grew 50%, the second quarter of acceleration in a business that had begun to slow as the global pandemic benefited the software maker's investment on working and learning from home.   Read more »

Amazon pushes social media app Parler offline after Capitol attack

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 11 01:45 AM

Messages of support for the Wednesday's rioters along with calls for new demonstrations had flourished on Parler, leading Google to remove it from its app store on Friday, followed by Apple on Saturday.   Read more »

Globe migrates tech systems to Amazon cloud to improve customer experience, 'virtualization'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 14 06:08 PM

Globe Telecom is migrating its technology infrastructure to Amazon Web Services' (AWS) cloud storage and computing to speed up systems and improve customer experience, it said on Monday. Read more »

Amazon says cloud outage triggered by capacity upgrade

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 29 10:44 AM

A giant outage of Amazon's cloud-computing network in the US, which impacted large users such as media companies, was triggered by an effort to upgrade capacity, the company said Saturday.   Read more »