Microsoft completed its $19.7 billion acquisition of voice technology company Nuance Communications on Friday morning, two days after clearing their final regulatory hurdle. Nuance and Microsoft announced the acquisition agreement… Read More
Facebook really wanted to hire Scott Guthrie. That’s one revelation from the internal Facebook documents leaked by NBC this week. Mashable reporter Karissa Bell spotted this exchange between Facebook execs that… Read More
As Microsoft began to realize its entire cloud service was offline Thursday, executive vice president Scott Guthrie was comparing his Cloud and AI Group to the Boston Red Sox. Guthrie… Read More
Will Octocat get along with Ninja Cat? GitHub co-founder Chris Wanstrath laughed in an interview this week as he pondered the compatibility of his company’s mascot with the flag-waving feline… Read More
Microsoft’s cloud business is the company’s economic engine these days, hitting aggressive revenue targets earlier than expected with plenty of room to grow. The group tasked with carrying out that… Read More
Microsoft Azure is seeing demand for cloud-based blockchain services, Microsoft Azure chief Scott Guthrie said Friday, but it doesn’t sound like the company’s cloud computing division will be changing its… Read More
Microsoft Azure customers interested in parsing large amounts of data to improve their businesses will soon be able to use Azure Databricks, developed in consultation with big data startup Databricks… Read More
New adopters of cloud computing services marvel about the cost efficiency they’re seeing compared to their traditional infrastructure, but Microsoft Azure chief Scott Guthrie thinks a new wave of super-efficient… Read More
Amazon and Microsoft are at the top of the food chain in the growing cloud world, battling for everything from customers to talent. Both are based in the Seattle area, and… Read More
We’re less than a month away from the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit, an immersive day-long technical conference that will bring together leading technologists, business leaders and entrepreneurs to learn what’s… Read More
Microsoft plans to strengthen its database pitch to cloud customers Wednesday at Microsoft Build by unveiling Azure Cosmos DB, a new database built with latency and throughput in mind and… Read More
LinkedIn has surpassed 500 million members globally, one of the first big milestones for the business social network since its acquisition by Microsoft for more than $26 billion last year. The news… Read More
Microsoft in an extensive demo today unveiled the capabilities of its Azure-based Dynamics 365 service announced in July — describing it as a significant undertaking combining its customer relations management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) offerings… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft will marry its newly acquired mobile development technology from Xamarin with its Visual Studio software development tools, expanding its offerings for developers who make apps for Android and… Read More
Microsoft’s cloud offerings were a shining star in the company’s earnings report on Thursday, which beat expectations and sent the company’s stock price soaring. Now, the company is reorganizing teams… Read More
Microsoft is taking to the cloud once more on an overcast day here in San Francisco in a move to outline its current plans for the company’s online services. Discussion… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO–Microsoft Azure is in a tough, highly competitive market. Locked in an ongoing pricing war with Google and Amazon Web Services, all three of the major players have recently… Read More
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella this morning named longtime executive Scott Guthrie as the head of the company’s Cloud and Enterprise Group, the position that Nadella himself previously held, and which… Read More