US retail giant Walmart said Thursday it had teamed with Microsoft in a bid to buy Chinese-owned short-form video app TikTok. The app has been at the center of a diplomatic storm between Washington and Beijing after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August 6 giving Americans 45 days to stop doing business with its Chinese parent company ByteDance.

Walmart says teaming with Microsoft in bid for TikTok

By 2021 Microsoft 365 apps and services will no longer support Internet Explorer. The tech giant is bidding farewell to IE 11 as well as Microsoft Edge Legacy. Watch report.

End of an Era: Microsoft to phase out internet explorer

Tech giant Microsoft has confirmed it will kill off defunct web browsers Internet Explorer and Edge Legacy next year, as plans for a phased termination are brought to a close.

Microsoft to bid goodbye to Internet Explorer and Edge Legacy after 25 years

Software giant Oracle is weighing a bid to join Microsoft in the race to acquire part of TikTok, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Oracle joins bid to acquire TikTok's US operations: Report

Microsoft has announced that its apps and services will stop supporting Internet Explorer 11 on August 17, 2021. It will be dropping support for its existing legacy version of Microsoft Edge on March 9, 2021.

Microsoft says goodbye to Internet Explorer 11 & Edge Legacy

The US President Donald Trump has been a very vocal hater of the popular video sharing app TikTok with Chinese roots. He recently gave an ultimatum to the Chinese parent company ByteDance to handover its US operations to a US-based company or face a complete ban in the US.

Amid TikTok controversy, Trump gets verified account on Triller

The US President Donald Trump, in another series of orders against the Chinese company ByteDance, has ordered ByteDance to divest its interest in TikTok's operations in the US within 90 days.

Trump claims to possess evidence against ByteDance; orders to divest interest in TikTok within 90 days

Tech giants such as Amazon Inc and Facebook Inc have taken a stand against ban on entry of foreign workers in the US, announced by Donald Trump. The US President Donald Trump announced a Presidential proclamation announcing a temporary ban on the entry of certain foreign workers in the United States.

Amazon, Facebook and 50 others file lawsuit against Trump's ban of H1B visa

58 Indian-origin CEOs account for $1 trillion in revenue, employ over 3.6 million globally

After waves of controversies related to a possible ban and discussions with Microsoft to take over the US operations, TikTok now has a new suitor. Twitter, the California-based company, is in talks with TikTok to discuss the possibility of merging the two companies, according to reports published by a leading US media house.

Twitter in talks with TikTok to discuss possible merging: Reports

After Microsoft declared its intentions to buy the US operations of the famous short-video sharing app TikTok, reports are now claiming that the tech giant might be looking at buying more of TikTok.

Microsoft planning to buy TikTok's global business: Reports

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has been a constant critic of the climate change crisis. Recently, in his blog, he warned that while COVID-19 is "awful" but the climate change crisis could be even worse.

Bill Gates warns climate change crisis could be worse than COVID-19 pandemic

US President Donald Trump said Monday that popular Chinese-owned video app TikTok would be "out of business" in the United States if it did not sell its US operations by September 15, preferably to an American buyer.

Donald Trump sets September 15 deadline for TikTok sale

Following Donald Trump's decision to ban the popular video-sharing app TikTok, Microsoft has confirmed that the US-based company is considering to overtake the video-sharing app.

Microsoft confirms exploring buying TikTok in US after Trump and Nadella talk

Microsoft Corp is in talks to buy ByteDance-owned TikTok, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing a source. The discussions between Microsoft and TikTok were first reported earlier on Friday by FOX Business, the Times said.

Microsoft in talks to buy ByteDance-owned TikTok: Report

More than a dozen top American technology companies, including Google, Facebook and Microsoft, on Monday joined a lawsuit filed by the Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) latest rule that bars international students from staying in the United States unless they attend at least one in-person course.

US student visa rule: Google, Facebook, Microsoft, join lawsuit by Harvard, MIT

Microsoft has announced a set of new features in its video conferencing app Teams that make virtual interactions more natural, more engaging. Teams is getting a new feature called 'Together Mode' which will allow users to share the same background.

Microsoft Teams gets new features including Together Mode, Video Filter and Live Reactions

Microsoft and Zoom on Tuesday joined other major internet firms that have stopped considering requests by Hong Kong's government for information on users in the wake of China's imposition of a sweeping new security law.

National security law: Now, Microsoft and Zoom pause requests for Hong Kong data

Microsoft has made an announcement on Friday that it will be closing down all of its stores and moving its retail online. The tech giant will not shut the doors in four locations and will be transforming them into "experience centres.

Microsoft to shut down all 80 stores around the world; except four locations

Microsoft has rolled out, in preview, the personal version of its video calling app Teams for both Android and iOS and it will be fully rolled out in the coming weeks.

Microsoft Teams now available for personal use

As work from home has become the new normal, Microsoft Teams has introduced a custom background option for video calls The feature allows you to replace your background in Team meetings with your own custom images or with the ones provided online by Microsoft.

Microsoft Teams now lets you use your own images as background during video calls

Racism is an American reality and the ongoing riots are holding up a mirror to those in denial, from the streets of America to social media, thousands are joining hands to say enough is enough!

Tech biggies condemn racism but Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg retains Trump's controversial post

Dozens of journalists have been sacked after Microsoft decided to replace them with artificial intelligence software. The curating of stories from news organisations and selection of headlines and pictures for the MSN site is currently done by journalists.

Microsoft sacks journalists to 'replace them with robots'

After making accurate predictions about the coronavirus pandemic in the past, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has made another prediction that has garnered a lot of attention.

'Very promising vaccines' for coronavirus pandemic under development: Bill Gates

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