Govt amends IT rules, with focus on AI contentThe amendments to the IT Act has the potential to cause convulsions in the social media industry, as the new laws slash the timeline to tak...
11 Feb, 2026, 08.36 AM IST
Bill Gates called it 'burning a billion dollars,' but Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella still invested it anyway. Guess who was right?In 2019, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella ignored Bill Gates’ warning that investing $1 billion in OpenAI would be like “burning money.” Five ye...
31 Oct, 2025, 04.31 PM IST
Amazon's massive layoffs; Founders cash in IPOAmazon will cut tens of thousands of corporate roles in a major workforce reshuffle. This and more in today's ETtech Top 5.
28 Oct, 2025, 09.05 PM IST
Microsoft drops the hammer: 4 workers fired after bold headquarters sit-in protestMicrosoft fired four employees after a protest at its Redmond headquarters. The workers had broken into executive offices to demand the com...
29 Aug, 2025, 05.49 PM IST
Former Microsoft engineer Vaniya Agrawal continues anti-Israel protests by disrupting Build 2025 AI eventVaniya Agrawal's Microsoft protest escalates as the former AI engineer interrupts Build 2025 in Seattle, challenging the company’s cloud de...
23 May, 2025, 07.22 AM IST
Microsoft filters emails containing ‘Palestine,’ ‘Gaza,’ and ‘genocide’ amid employee protestsMicrosoft is filtering internal emails containing terms like “Palestine” and “Gaza,” sparking internal unrest and protest. The move, linked...
22 May, 2025, 03.08 PM IST
Protester shouts 'show how Microsoft is killing Palestinians' during CEO Satya Nadella's key speech; Watch video hereMicrosoft's Build 2025 was disrupted by protests against its contracts with the Israeli government, led by an employee accusing the company...
21 May, 2025, 02.13 PM IST
Elon Musk, who's suing Microsoft, is also software giant's special guest in new Grok AI partnershipMusk last year sued Microsoft and its close business partner OpenAI in a dispute over Musk's foundational contributions to OpenAI, which Mu...
20 May, 2025, 10.15 AM IST
Microsoft strikes deal with Elon Musk to host Grok AIThe Grok chatbot last week ignited controversy by answering unrelated user prompts with unbacked right-wing propaganda about purported oppr...
20 May, 2025, 08.14 AM IST
Was Xbox Live down due to Microsoft outage? Here's what we knowXbox gamers were in for a shock on Friday as they were signed out of their Microsoft accounts, without being able to sing in or connect to ...
20 Jul, 2024, 01.31 PM IST
India has cracked the code on drawing foreign capital: Charles Emond, CEO CDPQPortfolio stands at $6.7 bn in India since 2016, Canada’s 2nd largest pension fund looks to deploy $4 bn in realty, infra in as many years....
09 Apr, 2024, 12.12 AM IST
CDPQ appoints Deloitte S Asia's former CEO Venkatram as country chairCaisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) has appointed N Venkatram as Country Chair for CDPQ India. Venkat has extensive experience in...
11 Mar, 2024, 12.30 PM IST
Microsoft backs Uber cofounder Travis Kalanick’s CloudKitchens: reportTravis Kalanick, who was ousted from Uber in June 2017 after a series of scandals, took over the real-estate company City Storage Systems, ...
07 Sep, 2022, 05.34 PM IST
New edtech unicorn; Twitter locks Congress accountsEruditus’ mammoth funding has made it a unicorn, thrice over. Twitter locks Congress accounts days after complying with India IT rules. A b...
13 Aug, 2021, 08.47 AM IST
We need to fix AI’s bias problem: Microsoft’s Harry ShumCiting an example of AI bias, Shum said the search results for CEO as of today is “well dressed smiling men, largely white male”.
09 Oct, 2018, 08.32 AM IST
Oracle strikes alliance with Xamarin to take on Amazon, IBM and MicrosoftAs part of the deal, Xamarin is launching a new cloud tool that competes with Amazon Web Services, IBM's Bluemix and Microsoft Azure.
09 Jul, 2015, 01.50 PM IST
Maharashtra govt to use Microsoft's Azure cloud for citizen dataThe digital-locker scheme is one of the planks of Modi's Digital India programme, which is expected to improve governance by delivering som...
04 Feb, 2015, 12.13 PM IST