The Latest Breaking News from Microsoft Corp

The value of global merger and acquisition (M&A) activity took a 29% hit in the first quarter of 2022 as market volatility fuelled by Russia's invasion of Ukraine pushed the brakes on last year's breakneck pace of dealmaking.

Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) acquired Minit, a leader in process mining technology. The financial terms of the transaction remain undisclosed. Minit enabled businesses to transform how they analyze, monitor, and optimize their processes.  Minit’s solutions have helped businesses gain deep insights into how processes run, uncover root causes of operational challenges and help mitigate…

Microsoft Corp's (NASDAQ:MSFT) new security chief, Charlie Bell, strongly urged to build protection from hackers and criminals in the emerging metaverse. Hackers could make genuine-looking avatars making it hard to resist. Bell warned against the possibilities of an avatar of a teller in a virtual bank lobby seeking information or a CEO avatar…

Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) fired some employees and terminated partnerships concerning bribery allegations in its sales efforts in the Middle East, the Wall Street Journal reports. A former Microsoft manager Yasser Elabd, who worked throughout the Middle East and Africa from 1998 to 2018, made the allegations public after being fired. Elabd alleged that Microsoft…

Strict new rules targeting the U.S. tech giants will likely be effective in October, Reuters reports based on EU antitrust chief. In 2021, Margrethe Vestager proposed a list of dos and don'ts for Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN), Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL), Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB), Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) unit Google and Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) under the Digital Markets Act.   Also Read: US Senate Votes…

Chinese regulator ordered Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) search engine Bing to suspend its auto-suggest feature for a week for undisclosed reasons, Reuters reports. It marks Bing's second regulatory suspension since December. "Bing is a global search platform and remains committed to respecting the rule of law and users' right to access information," Bing said. Recently…

Microsoft Corp's Bing, the only major foreign search engine available in China, said a "relevant government agency" has required it to suspend its auto-suggest function in China for seven days. The suspension marks the second of its kind for Bing since December, and arrives amid an ongoing crackdown on technology…

Alphabet Inc’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google detected a group of ransomware hackers trying to breach companies in 2021, exploiting a vulnerability in Microsoft Corp’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows. The group sent over 5,000 malicious emails a day to up to 650 global organizations, often leveraging a flaw in MSHTML. Microsoft issued a security fix for the Windows vulnerability…

Jefferies analyst Brent Thill notes Microsoft Corp's (NASDAQ: MSFT) emerging Power Platform has "an outsized impact via a halo effect" on the entire Microsoft suite.