cloud computing

Microsoft and the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) announced a strategic collaboration to build a cloud-native, AI-driven unified data platform on Microsoft Azure aimed at compressing transmission planning cycles, improving forecasting accuracy, and delivering Copilot‑style...

Microsoft’s balance sheet and corporate muscle look built for a long AI summer, but the company’s sprint to scale infrastructure raises as many strategic and regulatory questions as it answers about the future of Azure, Copilot, and Microsoft’s ties to the hardest-to-predict partner of all...

Alphabet’s rerating over the past year — powered by Gemini, a booming Google Cloud, and a willingness to spend at scale — has turned a dependable ad machine into a high‑stakes, capital‑intensive AI play that now demands closer, metric-driven scrutiny from investors and IT decision‑makers...

Microsoft’s lead in the AI race is no accident: a mix of deep-pocketed infrastructure spending, integrated product strategy, and strategic partnerships has vaulted Azure and its partners to the front of a rapidly maturing market — but that lead is neither unassailable nor free from short- and...

Rumours that Microsoft may cut as many as 22,000 jobs in early January 2026 have re‑ignited debate about the company’s strategy and the human cost of its sweeping pivot to AI infrastructure, but the claim remains unverified and rests largely on anonymous forum posts and secondary aggregation...

Microsoft is reportedly preparing another round of workforce reductions in January 2026, a development that — if confirmed — would extend a year-long cycle of restructuring that has already seen Microsoft cut thousands of roles while simultaneously pouring unprecedented capital into AI...

Microsoft’s recent positioning against a crowded field of software peers is less a single verdict than a layered set of signals — strong absolute profitability and cash generation, a market that prices its revenue at a premium, and headline ratios that require careful normalization to be...

HEGLA‑HANIC’s new glass365 platform brings an industry‑tuned Microsoft Copilot into the heart of glass order entry, promising to turn hours of manual data entry into seconds of automated drafting—while keeping production teams firmly in control of every confirmation step. The system is built on...

Analysts’ recent comments that favor Microsoft over Alphabet (Google) in the AI race crystallize a wider, measurable debate about where AI value will actually be captured: cloud infrastructure and enterprise seat economics, or consumer attention and ad monetization. The nutshell argument is...

Brookfield Asset Management’s reported move to launch a cloud business aimed at lower-cost AI infrastructure marks a notable acceleration in the race to build the physical backbone of AI — and it signals that capital-rich infrastructure players are now prepared to compete directly with...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s succinct advice—“The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life.”—was featured as a Quote of the Day in a recent news roundup, and the line crystallizes a leadership philosophy that has quietly shaped Microsoft’s decade-long...

The Magnificent Seven’s narrative for 2025 ended not with a clean sweep but with notable divergences: a handful of the group — Apple, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon — underperformed broad benchmarks despite pouring unprecedented capital into artificial intelligence and infrastructure, while NVIDIA...

Few phrases capture modern corporate power like “too big to fail,” and the companies on this short list are precisely the firms that, through size, reach, or infrastructure, now sit at the crossroads of commerce, technology, and public life—so entangled with national economies and everyday...

Analysts are pointing to Amazon and Alphabet as two of the most resilient large-cap technology holdings heading into 2026, arguing that their scale, diversified revenue streams and heavy investments in AI infrastructure — including proprietary accelerators — give them defensive advantages in an...

Microsoft appears to be quietly funding an ambitious effort — codenamed “Project Strong ARMed” in recent hiring adverts — to accelerate the migration of large x64 codebases to Arm64 across some parts of the company using AI-powered software engineering agents. The public fragments (job listings...

The Zacks Analyst Blog’s year‑end note that singles out Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet as the three cloud computing stocks to buy before 2026 crystallizes a simple market thesis: the hyperscalers’ AI‑driven cloud investments have moved from speculative to revenue‑bearing, and investors should...

Guinness World Records has officially certified Nigerian-born cloud engineer Abel Yakubu as the holder of the Longest Computer Programming Lesson after a continuous, livestreamed, 60-hour classroom and hands‑on marathon held in Abuja between 21 and 23 November 2025. Background Abel Yakubu...

Guinness World Records has officially recognised Nigerian-born cloud engineer Abel Yakubu for a continuous 60-hour Longest Computer Programming Lesson held in Abuja between 21 and 23 November 2025, a Guinness-listed adjudication that has already generated widespread national and international...

Abel Yakubu’s confirmed Guinness World Record for a continuous 60‑hour computer programming lesson is more than a headline; it is a high‑visibility inflection point for Nigeria’s tech ecosystem and a practical case study in how spectacle, pedagogy and verification collide in modern skills...

Abel Yakubu has been confirmed as the Guinness World Records holder for the Longest Computer Programming Lesson, completing a marathon 60-hour coding lesson in Abuja that Guinness lists as taking place on 21 November 2025 — a high-profile attempt designed to spotlight cloud computing skills...