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Microsoft faces monopoly investigation in China
The Times Of India
Microsoft Corp appears to be the latest US company targeted by China for anti-trust investigation after government officials paid sudden visits to the software firm's Chinese offices on Monday. | Representatives from China's State Administration for Industry & Commerce (SAIC) made the visits to Micr...
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Chinese officials pay surprise visit to Microsoft offices
The Times Of India
BEIJING: Chinese government officials have made sudden visits to Microsoft offices in China, a spokeswoman for the company said on Monday, but declined to give any reason for the inspections. | China's State Administration for Industry & Commerce, which Chinese media reported had made the visits to ...
Video: The TechRadar show brings Half-Life, Microsoft 2.0 and Twitch
Atlanta Journal
As another week draws to its inevitable conclusion, we've put together a cracking TechRadar show for your delectation. This week we touch on the future of Microsoft as it sheds staff, we talk through the controversial matter of remastered games and d...
Anti-privacy court ruling shows why Microsoft is one of privacy's best friends
Atlanta Journal
If you're worried about your privacy, Microsoft is one of your best friends. Microsoft's decision to appeal a court ruling that it has to turn over to the federal government email stored in Ireland shows once again that the company is fighting for yo...
Microsoft loses court round in bid to turn over Irish emails, vows appeal
Business Journal
How-To: Growth Strategies | Relationship building is key to finding vendors How to start selling to the government How to get your products onto the shelves of big-box stores | Email Subscriptions | Stay on top of the latest tech news from Seattle an...
Microsoft Must Hand Over Email Stored In Dublin
Skynews
Microsoft has been ordered to hand over a user's email account by a US court - despite the data being held in its Dublin data centre. | The technology company had argued that an attempt to gain access to data held overseas was a breach of internation...
This photo taken July 3, 2014 shows the Microsoft Corp. logo outside the Microsoft Visitor Center in Redmond, Wash.
AP / Ted S. Warren
Microsoft to cut up to 18,000 jobs, mostly from new acquisition Nokia
Canberra Times
Workers leave Microsoft's office, in Oulu, Finland. Photo: AP | Seattle: Microsoft has said it plans to eliminate up to 18,000 jobs over the next year in a shake-up intended to hel...
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WN / Rubielyn Bunag
Microsoft is killing its Android smartphones after just four months
The Guardian
The Nokia X line is being phased out in favour of cheap Windows Phones as Microsoft announces deep cuts | Nokia's short-lived Android smartphones have been cut after just four mont...
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Massive Job Cuts Are Reportedly Coming For Microsoft Employees
Business Insider
The Microsoft logo is seen at their offices in Bucharest | (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is planning its biggest round of job cuts in five years as the software maker looks to integra...
Microsoft EMET 5.0 security tool puts a leash on plug-ins
Atlanta Journal
The latest release of a Microsoft security tool that's designed to stop exploits lets administrators control when third-party plugins are launched, a long favored route for attackers. Microsoft has been steadily improving and adding more capabilities...
Chinese employees at Microsoft's Nokia arm protest mass layoffs
Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) - "Hundreds" of Chinese employees at Microsoft Corp's Nokia phone business protested on Friday against mass layoffs that the U.S. tech company announced last month, according to an employee present and pictures posted on social medi...
Microsoft ordered to hand over emails on Dublin server
BBC News
Microsoft's latest attempt to resist a US government warrant demanding access to emails stored on servers in Ireland has been dismissed by a federal judge. | A court in New York ruled against the tech company, which has consistently fought the o...
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Scientists explain mystery of our 'lemon Moon'
The Independent
It might look like a perfect sphere to you and I but scientists have now declared that the Moon is most definitely “lemon-shaped”. | Researchers from the University of California published a new study in the journal Nature using advanced laser technology to smooth over the craggy lunar surface (one of the traditional difficulties in accurately ...
Technology
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry listens to a student engaged in biomass research as he visits the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, India, before a string of meetings as part of a Strategic & Economic Dialogue between the two countries on July 31, 2014.
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Kerry visits IIT; walks out impressed with students
The Siasat Daily
New Delhi, July 31: | "Very exciting" and "excellent" were the words used by US Secretary of State John Kerry as he visited two laboratories at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology here today and interacted with the students. | Kerry, who is here for the 5th Indo-US Strategic Dialogue, took time out of his schedule and visited the Applied...



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