Xbox Cloud Gaming beta starts rolling out on iOS and PC this week Cyber Security by Lucas Matney - April 19, 20210 The era of cloud gaming hasn’t arrived with the intensity that may have seemed imminent a couple years ago when major tech platforms announced their plays. In 2021, the market is still pretty much non-existent despite established presences from nearly all of tech’s biggest players. Microsoft has been slow to roll
Walmart helps push Cruise’s latest investment round to $2.75B Cyber Security by Kirsten Korosec - April 15, 20210 Cruise, the autonomous vehicle company aiming to deploy robotaxis in San Francisco and Dubai, has added Walmart as an investor in an extended fundraising round that has grown to $2.75 billion. The company said it has a post-money valuation of more than $30 billion. Walmart and several unnamed institutional investors added
FBI launches operation to remotely remove Microsoft Exchange server backdoors Cyber Security by Zack Whittaker - April 14, 20210 A court in Houston has authorized an FBI operation to “copy and remove” backdoors from hundreds of Microsoft Exchange email servers in the United States, months after hackers used four previously undiscovered vulnerabilities to attack thousands of networks. The Justice Department announced the operation on Tuesday, which it described as “successful.”
Microsoft is really pushing Teams with its latest accessories Cyber Security by Brian Heater - April 13, 20210 The new Surface Laptop was the marquee arrival in today’s Microsoft announcement, but boy howdy, the company also dropped a whole bunch of new accessories. It’s a pretty broad range of new devices, including some small updates to existing products and entirely new entries. But there’s one clear through line
Microsoft’s latest Surface Laptop goes on sale this week, starting at $999 Cyber Security by Brian Heater - April 13, 20210 Microsoft is understandably positioning the latest additions to its Surface line as productivity devices. Laptop sales, in particular, have jumped amid the pandemic, as many have scrambled to shift to a work from home setting. With that in mind, the latest version of the Surface Laptop is far and away
Daily Crunch: Microsoft acquires Nuance for $19.7B Cyber Security by Anthony Ha - April 12, 20210 Microsoft makes a big healthcare tech acquisition, Twitter is building a presence in Africa and Apple may be cooking up some new smart home products. This is your Daily Crunch for April 12, 2021. The big story: Microsoft acquires Nuance for $19.7B Microsoft announced this morning that it’s acquiring speech-to-text company Nuance
Equity Monday: Microsoft buys Nuance, Uber isn’t dead, and Austin has a new unicorn Cyber Security by Alex Wilhelm - April 12, 20210 Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from
Microsoft goes all in on healthcare with $19.7B Nuance acquisition Cyber Security by Ron Miller - April 12, 20210 When Microsoft announced it was acquiring Nuance Communications this morning for $19.7 billion, you could be excused for doing a Monday morning double take at the hefty price tag. That’s surely a lot of money for a company on a $1.4 billion run rate, but Microsoft, which has already partnered with
Microsoft is acquiring Nuance Communications for $19.7B Cyber Security by Ron Miller - April 12, 20210 Microsoft agreed today to acquire Nuance Communications, a leader in speech to text software, for $19.7 billion. The company is best know for its speech to text products. Bloomberg broke the story over the weekend that the two companies were in talks. Nuance CEO Mark Benjamin will remain with the company
Immersion cooling to offset data centers’ massive power demands gains a big booster in Microsoft Cyber Security by Jonathan Shieber - April 8, 20210 LiquidStack does it. So does Submer. They’re both dropping servers carrying sensitive data into goop in an effort to save the planet. Now they’re joined by one of the biggest tech companies in the world in their efforts to improve the energy efficiency of data centers, because Microsoft is getting