Microsoft snaps up former OpenAI chief Sam Altman to lead research team November 20, 2023 Microsoft has appointed Sam Altman, the former boss of OpenAI to head a new advanced AI research team at the tech giant.
Microsoft’s AI gambit shines but Google fumbles with cloud business October 25, 2023 Largely thanks to strong growth in its cloud computing division, Microsoft reported first-quarterly revenue of £46.4bn.
Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon hope to lift Wall Street spirits in this week’s results October 22, 2023 Big Tech earnings season is back, with a keen focus on cloud business, AI, and capex changes amid a challenging year on Wall Street.
Game on! Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision gets green light from competition watchdog October 13, 2023 The CMA has green-lit the merger between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard
CMA launches probe into £7.5bn UK cloud market following Ofcom study October 5, 2023 Britain's competition watchdog has launched an investigation into the UK's cloud market after an Ofcom study found competition issues.
Microsoft chief says unfair practices by Google led to search engine dominance October 3, 2023 Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has said unfair tactics used by Google led to its dominance as a search engine and in turn thwarted his own company’s rival programme, Bing. He gave evidence in a packed Washington DC courtroom as part of the government’s landmark antitrust trial against Google’s parent company Alphabet. The Justice Department [...]
Game over no more: Microsoft’s Activison tie-up given provisional OK by regulator September 22, 2023 Microsoft's restructured acquisition of Activision Blizzard "opens the door" to the deal being cleared, Britain's antitrust regulator said on Friday.
Microsoft to unbundle Teams from Office in bid to avert EU antitrust fine August 31, 2023 Microsoft will unbundle its chat and video app Teams from its Office product and make it easier for rival products to work with its software, the US company said on Thursday in a move aimed at staving off a possible EU antitrust fine. The proposed changes came a month after the European Commission launched an [...]
It took Big Tech firms just six days to pay off $2bn in fines, new data shows August 30, 2023 Big Tech firms paid over $2bn (£1.6bn) in fines this year. But new data shows it took them just over six days to pay them off.
Will Microsoft and Activision Blizzard finally get the green light? August 22, 2023 Britain’s competition watchdog faces a tough call on whether to wave through Microsoft and Activision Blizzard’s merger as the EU and the US have done, but a green light could be down the road, experts have suggested. Microsoft’s renewed $69bn acquisition offer for gaming giant Activision Blizzard has triggered a new probe by the Competition [...]