Charlie Bell (LinkedIn Photo) Long-time Amazon Web Services boss Charlie Bell has reportedly taken a job at Microsoft. Bell, a member of Amazon’s senior leadership team and long-time lynchpin of the company’s cloud business, left the Seattle company this month after more than 23 years. Business Insider reported Wednesday that Bell was joining Microsoft. The … Read more
The US has suffered a spate of major cyberattacks targeting everyone from federal prosecutors to meat suppliers, and the White House is hoping some talks with key companies will lead to long-term security solutions. The Washington Post reports that President Biden, certain cabinet members and relevant security officials are holding talks with technology giants ADP, … Read more
Logitech has introduced some new wireless (and wired) earbuds with some unique features for business people. The key product is the Zone True Wireless Earbuds, which the company says will be the first to be certified by the three major video conferencing platforms: Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. Another unique feature is support not … Read more
Satya Nadella at Microsoft Ignite in 2016, two years after serving as Microsoft CEO and a few months after the company announced the acquisition of LinkedIn. (GeekWire file photo / Kevin Lisota) When Microsoft announced the acquisition of LinkedIn for more than $ 26 billion five years ago, there has been a lot of skepticism, … Read more
Suplari co-founders Jeff Gerber, Brian White and Nikesh Parekh. (Suplari photo) Microsoft has acquired Suplari, a Seattle-based startup that uses artificial intelligence to help companies understand and manage their spending. Suplari was founded in 2016 and analyzes procurement and expenditure data that flow into various company systems. It can provide recommendations for cost savings, risks, … Read more
Microsoft is buying RiskIQ, a cybersecurity company best known for working with organizations like Facebook and the US Postal Service to find out where and how they are vulnerable to online attacks. The company didn’t disclose the terms of the deal, but according to Bloomberg, Microsoft agreed to pay about $ 500 million. Outside of … Read more
The Department of Defense is terminating its $ 10 billion cloud contract for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI). The Pentagon said it had “initiated contract termination procedures” in a press release shared Tuesday, stating that “the department has determined that the JEDI cloud contract is no longer meeting its requirements due to evolving requirements, … Read more
Toni Townes-Whitley (left) and Kate Johnson. (Microsoft and UPS photos) Microsoft’s US President Kate Johnson and Toni Townes-Whitley, President of the US Government and Regulated Industries, are leaving the company. The company confirmed both exits and said a search for Townes-Whitley’s replacements was ongoing. Deb Cupp takes over the management of the US subsidiary of … Read more
Some of the games available on Xbox Game Pass as seen on Google Chrome on June 28th. (Microsoft screenshot) Microsoft announced on Monday that its Xbox Cloud gaming service, formerly known as Project xCloud, has officially expanded to the web browser world. Starting today, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers with Windows 10 PCs or iOS … Read more
Operating system developers offer code signing to help you avoid hostile software, but Microsoft may have inadvertently broken the trust that signing is designed to create. According to BleepingComputer, Microsoft has confirmed that it has signed Netfilter, a third-party driver for Windows that contains rootkit malware that has been circulating in the gaming community. It … Read more