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LinkedIn acquires Drawbridge to bolster its marketing and advertising offerings

LinkedIn has acquired Drawbridge, a well-funded San Francisco-area startup that uses artificial intelligence to learn more about customers and target… Read More

Microsoft rolls out support for tough federal security standards to all U.S. Azure regions ahead of JEDI contract decision

Federal agencies will be able to use any region of Microsoft Azure’s cloud computing footprint in the United States to… Read More

Brad Smith as Facebook’s next CEO? Former FB exec says Microsoft president should replace Zuck

Here’s one potential solution to help Facebook recover from its recent controversies: hire Brad Smith. That’s the recommendation from Alex… Read More

Microsoft makes a service mesh move with new specification it hopes will unite emerging cloud-native technologies

To date Microsoft has stayed out of the increasing skirmishes in the cloud-native world around service-mesh technology, but on Tuesday… Read More

Xbox chief lays out gaming inclusivity commitment, calls on industry to adopt ‘fierce urgency for safety’

Microsoft wants to stamp out toxicity, harassment and abuse in gaming, and it called on fellow tech giants to help… Read More

How Melinda Gates made her mark at Microsoft by not fitting in, and her thoughts on its culture now

After graduating from Duke University with degrees in computer science and business, Melinda Gates could have worked for any number… Read More

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Minecraft meets the real world, Amazon pays its employees to quit, and the scooter saga continues

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Four years after acquiring Minecraft, Microsoft this week unveiled its most ambitious effort yet… Read More

Hands-on with Minecraft Earth, Microsoft’s augmented reality answer to Pokémon Go

It won’t be long before the trees on your street are pixelated and little pigs and other animals are rampaging… Read More

Look out, Pokémon Go: Microsoft unveils new Minecraft Earth augmented reality game

Microsoft today unveiled a new augmented reality Minecraft game for smartphones that aims to advance the genre long associated with… Read More

Kenichiro Yoshida, President and CEO, Sony Corporation (left), and Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft

Microsoft and Sony vow to “explore” ways to collaborate on cloud gaming and AI in new partnership

Microsoft and Sony are going exploring. The two longtime gaming console rivals announced Thursday that they have struck a multiyear… Read More

Microsoft treads cautiously as it plans to deploy $500M affordable housing fund in Seattle region

Microsoft made a big splash in January with the surprise announcement of a $500 million commitment to increase the supply… Read More

Q&A: Microsoft President Brad Smith on ‘historic’ international partnership to curb online extremism

Six weeks ago, Microsoft President Brad Smith sat down with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to discuss how to… Read More

Does HoloLens 2 live up to the hype? Hands-on with Microsoft’s new mixed-reality headset

When Microsoft first unveiled the next-generation HoloLens “mixed reality” headset in February, executives promised a more comfortable and immersive experience… Read More

Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and other tech giants pledge to crack down on violent extremism in ‘Christchurch call to action’

A who’s who of U.S. tech and social media giants is joining forces with international leaders to fight the violent… Read More

‘Ghost Work’ explores the ups and mostly downs of the hidden gig economy

Chances are the last time you ordered something, chatted with customer service, or looked something up online, you didn’t give… Read More

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Q&A: Melinda Gates opens up about tech industry, equality and 3 women who changed her life

Melinda Gates once famously set a rule in her kitchen. Nobody leaves until mom does. It’s a story she tells… Read More

Microsoft will spend $100M to open its first development center in Africa

Microsoft will spend more than $100 million over the next five years to open its first development center in Africa… Read More

Microsoft unveils decentralized identity protocol that works atop the Bitcoin blockchain

Microsoft introduced a new open-source protocol Monday that is designed to hurdle performance issues when trying to use blockchain networks… Read More

We tested the Bay Area’s knowledge of Seattle tech, with some predictable and surprising results

The two most valuable companies in the world are tech corporations — do you know what they are? And do… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at Build 2019. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota)

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Which tech giant do you trust? How Google, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft are doing privacy

There’s a common theme running through the spring season of developer conferences and tech events: trust and privacy. With the… Read More

GitHub adds Package Registry, which allows GitHub users to publish software packages alongside source code

GitHub is expanding the scope of its code repository to include support for publishing software packages, the company annoucned Friday… Read More

Azure Red Hat OpenShift, a Kubernetes service jointly managed by Microsoft and Red Hat, is now available

Companies interested in using Kubernetes to help manage their containerized applications have a new option from Microsoft and Red Hat… Read More

Microsoft may be all-in on cloud computing, but Azure reliability is lagging the competition

In an increasingly competitive market for cloud computing, reliability matters, and Microsoft has some work to do. Data compiled by… Read More

Microsoft Imagine Cup winner aims to transform blood glucose monitoring with eye testing app

An 18-year-old college freshman and winner of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, the tech giants global student developer competition, has plans to… Read More

This is the Apollo 11 HoloLens demo that Microsoft hoped to show at Build

The opening demo at Microsoft’s Build conference was supposed to be a real showstopper, and ultimately it did stop the… Read More

Together at last: Microsoft will ship a Linux kernel with Windows

There are countless things about the state of technology in 2019 that would startle a visitor from 2009, but this… Read More

Microsoft teams up with Starbucks on predictive drive-thru ordering and bean-to-cup blockchain

Starbucks is quickly becoming as much a tech company as a coffee company, but that hasn’t stopped its leadership from… Read More

Microsoft rolls out new performance-scaling features for Azure databases, including serverless Azure SQL

Cloud customers are getting used to the idea of paying only for what they use while enjoying on-demand performance scaling… Read More

Trust, privacy, and then what? Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella opens Build developer conference

Over the decades, Microsoft’s developer conferences have provided the first glimpse of some of the company’s most important products, from… Read More

Augmented reality Minecraft? Microsoft teases Pokémon Go-style adaptation of popular game

A new augmented reality, mobile version of the popular Minecraft game looks to be on the way. Microsoft ended the… Read More