SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp made a second round of layoffs on Thursday, moving towards its target of cutting 18,000 staff, or about 14 percent of its workforce, as Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella tries to slim down the giant software company. Microsoft gave notice to 2,100 employees on Thursday, 747 of those in the […]
Microsoft Corp said on Monday it has agreed to acquire Stockholm-based games developer Mojang and the companys wildly popular Minecraft video game franchise for $2.5 billion. Microsoft said in a statement it expects the acquisition to be break-even in fiscal year 2015 on a GAAP basis. Gaming is a top activity spanning devices, from PCs […]
DataStax, which helps companies deal with the vast troves of data scattered around the Internet, said it had raised $106 million, further enabling it take on incumbents such as Oracle Corp and Microsoft Corp . DataStax uses a technology known as Apache Cassandra, one of a new breed of so-called NoSQL databases that offer more […]
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