Microsoft and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) are teaming up today on the public release of BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365, a name which surely Microsoft itself had a hand in creating. The new service will allow corporate customers to manage their deployed BlackBerry devices using Exchange Online, the hosted version of [...]
Posted on February 1st, 2012 by admin
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Red Gate this morning announced that it has acquired Cerebrata, an India-based maker of tools that helps developers build applications that run on Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform. In fact, Cerebrate is not only a Microsoft partner but also one of their BizSpark startups. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but we’re told Cerebrata will [...]
Posted on October 27th, 2011 by admin
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Microsoft this morning announced that it has closed its $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype, a deal that was originally announced back in May. They even made an infographic to showcase the importance of the deal completion. /sarcasm Other than that, not much news to report. As previously announced, Skype becomes a new business division within [...]
Posted on October 15th, 2011 by admin
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Here’s a new one on turning against your former wet-nurse. Huddle was once a Microsoft BizSpark One company. But it’s business collaboration platform now competes with Microsoft’s Sharepoint. Indeed, there are rumours that UK-based Huddle (which now has a large SF office) was once yanked off stage at Mix ‘O6 at the last minute because [...]
Posted on October 3rd, 2011 by admin
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NextDocs, a company that sells Microsoft SharePoint based software for the life sciences industry, has raised $10.3 million in a Series A financing from OpenView Venture Partners. NextDocs helps life sciences companies of leverage SharePoint-based document and management software.The company actually customizes SharePoint for companies in the pharmaceuticals, medical device and biotech industries. NextDocs actually [...]
Posted on August 22nd, 2011 by admin
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Redmond giant has been chastised for failing to take the lead when new technology rears its head or for being ‘out of touch’ in general. On that note, Microsoft took a bit of a hit earlier this week, when the company’s general counsel lamented the shortage of good IT workers. His solution? Petition the U.S. [...]
Posted on August 7th, 2011 by admin
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Salesforce is announcing a new key hire today—former Microsoft vet Matt Miszewski will join the CRM giant as Senior Vice President Global Public Sector. In his new role, Miszewski will help lead Salesforce.com’s global public sector initiatives to help governments adopt cloud computing. Miszewski was formerly the general manager of Worldwide Government for Microsoft, where [...]
Posted on January 20th, 2011 by admin
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When Mayor Bloomberg wants to make an announcement with Microsoft, CEO Steve Ballmer gets on a plane and flies to New York City. That’s because he’s Mayor Bloomberg, but also because New York City is a very large customer with 100,000 city employees. Today Ballmer and Bloomberg are in City Hall announcing a new five-year [...]
Posted on October 21st, 2010 by admin
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www.EmploymentCrossing.com Microsoft plans to cut its workforce by 10 percent, or about 9100 employees, in order to increase the markets’ confidence in the company. The move is hoped to show that profits are more important than revenue growth in the current times. The software giant had close to 91000 employees on its payrolls at the [...]
Posted on October 16th, 2010 by admin
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It’s no secret that Microsoft and Salesforce just plain don’t like each other (remember when Microsoft communications head Frank Shaw basically said that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is obsessed with them?). In fact, the two companies have spent the last year suing one another over patents. But today they’re announcing that they’ve settled the suit. [...]
Posted on August 4th, 2010 by admin
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