Microsoft, while reporting about its second-quarter earnings on Thursday, also revealed that its newly-acquired company LinkedIn has lost $100 million since the deal closed in December.
Tech giant Microsoft recently reported a decline of 81 percent in revenue from phones in its second quarter of FY17.
Google has asked over a hundred employees travelling abroad after US President Donald Trump's order against immigrants to return to the US immediately. The order bans people from seven majority-Muslim nations from entering US for a total of ninety days.
Denmark has announced the appointment a "digital ambassador" to manage its relationships with technology giants like Google and Apple, becoming the first country to do so.
U.S President Donald Trump on Friday made a first real move on his anti-immigration promise by signing an executive order that bars the entry of immigrants from several Muslim countries, including refugees from the war-torn Syria.
Facebook is currently embroiled in a bitter fight with ZeniMax over code issues. The company is now seeking $2 billion in compensation and $2 billion in punitive damages. ZeniMax has accused Oculus of stealing its source code. Oculus was bought by Facebook in 2014 for $2 billion.
Huawei was able to overthrow Xiaomi as the leading smartphone maker in China. Now, the Chinese tech firm believes that they are now ready to defeat Apple as the leading smartphone manufacturer in the world.
Facebook has decided to change the way it ranks videos in News Feed with more emphasis on longer videos. The focus on longer videos certainly comes as a tad surprise given that the attention span on social media is very low.
Steve Mollenkopf, Qualcomm CEO, and Derek Aberle, head of Qualcomm's licensing business, have fired back at lawsuits filed by Apple against the company last week in the US and China. They said that the lawsuits are Apple's effort to squeeze as much money as possible from its supplier.
Microsoft has scored a prominent legal win as a federal appeals court has declined a governmental appeal in a cloud computing case. The technology company was embroiled in a struggle with the US government over access to its data stored on servers located in Ireland. The ruling is expected to have important implications for data privacy issues.
