Microsoft Excel users rejoice. Your favorite spreadsheet is about to get a lot smarter, thanks to the help of machine learning and a better connection to the outside world.
As Jared Spataro, Microsoft’s general manager for Office, and Rob Howard, the company’s director of Office 365 ecosystem marketing, showed me...
Microsoft, Facebook, and the telecoms infrastructure company Telxius have announced the completion of the highest capacity subsea cable to ever cross the Atlantic Ocean. The cable is capable of transmitting 160 terabits of data per second, the equivalent of streaming 71 million HD videos at the same time, and...
Of the three most influential companies in smartphone design, Nokia fragmented into a million pieces after being bought out by Microsoft, Apple is still going strong, and Google just bought the third with its $1.1 billion deal with HTC. The reason why Google acquired what looks to be the...
The iPhone 8 is not what you think. Unlike recent years Apple AAPL -0.75% did not follow the iPhone 7 with an ‘iPhone 7S’ so instead we have the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus as well as a radically redesigned (and jaw droppingly expensive) all new iPhone X....
Amazon already accounts for about a quarter of all online sales in the United States. Now the company is holding talks to supersize its video-channel business, not just in the U.S. but around the globe.
In the past few weeks, Amazon has started talks to buy scores of small television...
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Apple Inc. is wading into the middle of the battle for Toshiba Corp.’s memory chips business.
The iPhone maker is in talks with Bain Capital to bid for the Tokyo-based company’s...
Nerdy Google has failed at social time and time again, so it considered buying teen sensation Snapchat. The search giant held informal talks with Snap and floated an offer of $30 billion in 2016 before Snap's last funding round, and just before its IPO this year, according to Business...
Agios Pharmaceuticals, a company that got its start less than a decade ago, just got its first drug approved by the FDA.
The company makes drugs that essentially try to repair cancer cells so they can grow old.
It's one of the first drugs that target the metabolism...
SAN FRANCISCO - The bloom is off seed funding, the business of providing money to brand-new startups, as investors take a more measured approach to financing emerging U.S. technology companies.
Seed-stage financing has been sliding for the last two years, with the number of transactions down about 40 percent since...
FRANKFURT - Germany's Volocopter said it has received 25 million euros ($30 million) in funding to develop an electric flying taxi, with car and truck maker Daimler among the firms providing fresh cash.
Daimler joined a consortium which includes technology investor Lukasz Gadowski, who sits on the supervisory board of...
