Microsoft Japan's Four-Day Work Week Trial Becomes A Success.

Gravitas: 4 Day Work Week Project In Japan: Reduced Hours Boosts Productivity!

In a country notorious for overwork, Microsoft Japan trialled a radical idea: working less. And it found that four-day weeks and other reforms both boosted sales and cut costs.

Microsoft Japan's four-day work a week experiment pays off ; sales get 40% boost

Microsoft Japan's 4 Day week resulted in an increase in Employee's productivity.

Microsoft Japan's 4 Day week, A Success

Microsoft Corp said it has tracked "significant" cyberattacks coming from a group it calls "Strontium" or "Fancy Bear", targeting anti-doping authorities and global sporting organizations.

Russian government-linked hackers targeting anti-doping authorities, sports organizations: Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation has won the Pentagon's $10 billion cloud computing contract, the Defense Department said on Friday, beating out favourite Amazon.com Inc. The contracting process had long been mired in conflict of interest allegations, even drawing the attention of President Donald Trump, who has publicly taken swipes at Amazon and its founder Jeff Bezos.

Microsoft beats Amazon for Pentagon's $10 billion cloud computing contract

Microsoft Corp. has won the Pentagon's $10 billion cloud computing contract, the Defense Department said on Friday, beating out favorite Amazon.com Inc. The contracting process had long been mired in conflict of interest allegations, even drawing the attention of President Donald Trump, who has publicly taken swipes at Amazon and its founder Jeff Bezos.

Business software group SAP said on Monday that it had reached a three-year deal with Microsoft to help its large enterprise customers move their business processes into the cloud.

SAP in three-year cloud partnership with Microsoft

Indian private sector lender Yes Bank is in talks with Microsoft Corp and two other technology companies as it looks to bring in a strategic shareholder as part of a strategy to rake in fresh capital, the Mint newspaper reported on Sunday.

Yes Bank in talks with Microsoft, other tech firms to sell up to 15% stake: Report

Microsoft on Friday said a hacker group linked to Iran unleashed cyberattacks on US journalists, government officials and accounts associated with a US presidential campaign.

Microsoft says Iran hackers targeted US presidential campaign

Tech companies led by Facebook on Monday joined world leaders in ramping up an industry body to weed out extremist content online, giving it a permanent staff. Facebook announced the steps at the United Nations, where French President Emmanuel Macron and New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern chaired a meeting on extremist risks on the internet.

Tech giants beef up body to fight extremist content

Amazon, Microsoft and Intel are among leading tech companies putting the world at risk through killer robot development, according to a report that surveyed major players from the sector about their stance on lethal autonomous weapons.

Amazon, Microsoft, putting the world at risk of killer artificial intelligence: Study

Microsoft Corp said on Monday it was investing $1 billion in San Francisco-based OpenAI and that the two had formed a multi-year partnership to develop artificial intelligence supercomputing technologies on Microsoft's Azure cloud computing service.

Microsoft to invest $1 billion in San Francisco-based OpenAI

London witnesses its first Microsoft physical retail store and that will be the first Microsoft physical store in all of Europe. Watch this video to know more.

WION Wallet: Microsoft opens first physical store in Europe

Microsoft missed its chance to be the dominant firm in mobile technology because it was "distracted" during a lengthy antitrust battle with US authorities, company co-founder Bill Gates said Monday.

Microsoft missed mobile dominance by 'tiny' margin: Bill Gates

More than 200 of the world's largest listed companies forecast that climate change could cost them a combined total of almost $1 trillion, with much of the pain due in the next five years, according to a report published on Tuesday.

World's biggest firms foresee $1 trillion climate cost hit

A new Microsoft study, in collaboration with IDC Asia/Pacific, points toward a boom in Artificial Intelligence in India, as a result of which innovations and organisational productivity are likely to go up in the coming years.

Rise of AI in India: Digital world will still need investment in human capital, says study

China's president has called for technological self-reliance in the escalating rivalry with America, but experts believe Beijing's late start on tech and relatively backward capabilities could make that a mission impossible.

China's tech 'Long March' could be road to nowhere

Microsoft Corp and Sony Corp on Thursday said they struck a strategic partnership in which Sony would use Microsoft's cloud for streaming games and media and the two would work together to develop image sensors.

Microsoft, Sony partner on streaming games, chips and Artificial Intelligence

Asian markets mostly fell Friday with investors treading carefully as global slowdown worries return to the fore, with analysts pointing to an economic divergence between the US and the rest of the world.

Asian markets mostly down after mixed lead from Wall Street

Local Afghan Taliban leaders are hindering global efforts to end polio, but Afghanistan and Pakistan must continue their fight to "get to zero" cases, the philanthropist Bill Gates said on Monday.

Bill Gates urges Afghanistan and Pakistan to 'get to zero' in polio fight

Senator Elizabeth Warren vowed on Friday to break up Amazon.com Inc, Alphabet Inc's Google and Facebook Inc if elected U.S. president to promote competition in the tech sector.

Wall Street critic Elizabeth Warren vows to break up Amazon, Facebook, Google

Some Microsoft Corp employees on Friday demanded that the company cancel a $480 million hardware contract to supply the US Army, with 94 workers signing a petition calling on the company to stop developing "any and all weapons technologies.

Microsoft workers demand to drop $480 million US Army contract

Pope Francis debated the potential threats artificial intelligence poses to humanity with the head of Microsoft on Wednesday, ahead of a robotics summit at the Vatican, it said.

Pope Francis, Microsoft chief Brad Smith discuss ethics of artificial intelligence

Apple is aiming to show it can do more than just make iPhones in a quarterly update Tuesday for investors who are skeptical over whether the culture-changing company can regain the momentum from its glory days.

Apple's best days behind it?

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