Word got out yesterday that Microsoft was in final talks to acquire AI software company Nuance Communications, and today the company made it official, announcing a $19.7 billion all cash deal for the AI software company. Nuance's CEO Mark Benjamin ... Read more
After Microsoft tried but failed to acquire the US operations of TikTok last year, a new report from the Financial Times reveals that Microsoft was discussing an acquisition with Pinterest in recent months. The visual social network, which is currently ... Read more
Microsoft announced this week the acquisition of Orions Systems, a company delivering smart vision system that it plans to use to improve its Dynamics 365 offerings.
Microsoft has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Metaswitch Networks, a leading developer of "ultra high performance, cloud native communications software" for voice, data, and communications solutions for operators, according to a press release issued today. After acquiring Affirmed Networks ... Read more
GitHub, the developer repository acquired by Microsoft back in 2018, is itself acquiring npm, the popular open source Javascript package manager. In a post on the GitHub blog, Nat Friedman, CEO of the independently run GitHub, describes npm with its ... Read more
Microsoft has had yet another big spending year, having acquired twenty startups for a combined total of more than $9 billion in its 2019 fiscal year, which concluded at the end of June.
Roughly over a year after becoming part of Microsoft, GitHub yesterday announced the acquisition of Semmel, which is a code analysis tool.
Microsoft is continuing to bolster its Azure services through acquisition, this time with the addition of cloud migration company Movere to the arsenal. Movere seeks to make it easier for companies to move to the cloud, having learned some of ... Read more
Microsoft announced today the acquisition of BlueTalon, a leading provider of Unified Data Access Control for big data and new data initiatives.
Last year, Microsoft acquired GitHub in a $7.5 billion acquisition, aiming to continue its long tradition of supporting developers, and perhaps steer them towards Microsoft Azure services in the process. Today Microsoft added to its GitHub stable, acquiring Pull Panda ... Read more
Microsoft announced today the acquisition of Express Logic, a San Diego-based company that creates specialized software for IoT devices powered by microcontroller units (MCUs)
Microsoft announced today the acquisition of DataSense, a data management platform developed by BrightBytes, an education data analytics company based in San Francisco.
FSLogix, an Atlanta-based company with an expertise on desktop virtualization is now a part of Microsoft.
After the EU approved Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub last week, Nat Friedman, CEO of GitHub announced today that the company is now officially owned by Microsoft.
After announcing the acquisition of four game studios including Forza Horizon 4 developer Playground Games this year, Microsoft could add a fifth one to its belt with Obsidian Entertainment.
Daniel Shapiro, head of talent and learning products at LinkedIn explained today that Glint’s ambition to help companies develop their people and improve business results closely align with LinkedIn’s goals.
Antitrust regulators in the European Union (EU) will make their decision concerning Microsoft's $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub on October 19, 2018. As noted in an article by Reuters, Microsoft requested EU approval for the deal on September 14, 2018. ... Read more
Lobe, a San Francisco-based company developing a visual tool for creating custom deep learning models is the latest AI startup to join Microsoft, the company announced today.
Microsoft announced this morning the acquisition of Flipgrid, a video-based social learning platform already used by more than 20 millions of students and educators worldwide.
Microsoft announced in a blog post yesterday that they've acquired technology from Forerunner Software that "includes, among other things, client-side rendering of Reporting Services (*.rdl) reports, responsive UI widgets for viewing reports, and a JavaScript SDK for integrating reports into ... Read more
Yesterday, in a lede-burying revelation, Polygon asserted that Microsoft may be looking to acquire game and gaming related companies, including PUBG Corporation, Valve, and most importantly, Electronic Arts, or as it's more widely known, EA. The news created a bit ... Read more