Microsoft’s decision to formally separate Teams from Office 365/Microsoft 365 marks the close of a high‑stakes regulatory chapter and creates a new competitive baseline for enterprise collaboration tools worldwide. The European Commission and Microsoft reached a negotiated package of commitments...
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Alibaba’s Cloud Intelligence unit has vaulted from strategic experiment to the company’s primary growth engine, reporting a 26% year‑over‑year revenue jump to RMB 33.4 billion in the most recent fiscal quarter as management doubles down on generative AI, model hosting and a headline RMB 380...
Alibaba’s Cloud Intelligence business is no longer an experimental bet — it is the engine powering the company’s reacceleration, but sustaining that advantage will demand flawless execution across infrastructure, monetization and geopolitics.
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Alibaba reported that its Cloud...
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A U.S. federal judge has ordered Google to open parts of its search infrastructure to rivals and banned a range of exclusive distribution agreements, while stopping short of the dramatic breakups the Department of Justice sought — a ruling that preserves Chrome and Android in Google’s hands but...
Spotify has a lot of strong rivals in its niche competing with them to become the world’s best music streaming service. Even though Spotify is loved by most music lovers, there are many inconveniences to use Spotify:
You can’t listen to Spotify offline without downloading;
You can’t download...
Palo Alto, California (CNN) -- In the technology world, a form of breaking bread can involve sharing hardware schematics.
Facebook invited reporters, hardware makers and rival internet companies to its headquarters to debut a new initiative on Thursday for improving website infrastructure...
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WordPad can now read and write both the Word 2007-compatible Office Open XML file format but also the OpenDocument specification that IBM and Sun have been advocating.
Right click on an .ISO image (from Windows Explorer) and select "open with" and you'll see the "Windows disk image burning...
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