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Dina Bass

ARTICLES BY DINA BASS

File photo of the Activision building in California, US. Microsoft revamped its bid to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard on Tuesday.

How Microsoft revived its deal to buy Activision

9 min read . 23 Aug 2023

An elderly man receives a dose of vaccine against COVID-19 at a vaccination center (AFP)

Microsoft unveils new vaccine tools to address earlier failures

2 min read . 20 Mar 2021

Microsoft pledges to get gaming service on iPhones

1 min read . 22 Sept 2020

Health officials said there may be hundreds of infections that haven’t been reported yet in Washington state and potentially more nationwide. (AP)

How Seattle is grappling with America’s largest coronavirus outbreak

5 min read . 03 Mar 2020

Google’s chief executive officer, Sundar Pichai, has described AI as ‘more profound than fire or electricity’. (Pradeep Gaur/Mint)

In the era of AI, who is really the inventor?

4 min read . 19 Feb 2020

FILE: The Pentagon has awarded Microsoft a $10 billion cloud computing contract called JEDI, Friday, Oct. 25, 2019. The contentious bidding process for the contract pitted Microsoft, Amazon and Oracle, among others, against one another. (AP)

Microsoft’s Pentagon contract win changes cloud game, but comes at a cost

4 min read . 28 Oct 2019

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. The company’s shares have jumped this year on optimism about the cloud business (Reuters)

The 'death' of Windows 7: Microsoft to end support early next year

4 min read . 24 Oct 2019

GitHub CEO Nat Friedman has instructed his team that the needs of GitHub customers come first, even if they conflict with Microsoft's desire to promote its other products. (Reuters)

Microsoft reboots the way it works with software developers

8 min read . 04 Jun 2019

Microsoft has more than doubled in value since Satya Nadella took over as chief executive in 2014 and refocused the software behemoth on newer businesses. Photo: Reuters

Microsoft boosts cloud belief and shares with results

5 min read . 20 Jul 2018

Dell has about $46 billion of debt. That includes about $3 billion of bonds maturing in 2018 and $4.35 billion due next year while the firm also has loans outstanding. Photo: Bloomberg

Dell Technologies is said to be considering IPO, other options

1 min read . 26 Jan 2018

The SoftBank Vision Fund, with a $100 billion target, has taken stakes in scores of startups over the past year, including Uber, Slack and Didi Chuxing. Photo: Bloomberg

SoftBank leads $865 million investment in start-up Katerra

3 min read . 24 Jan 2018

Microsoft is advocating for changes to labour laws to properly classify workers and allocate benefits like health care and retirement planning. Photo: Reuters

Microsoft sees need for regulation, laws for AI advances

2 min read . 18 Jan 2018

The changes will replace the original X-shaped buildings where co-founder and former CEO Bill Gates moved the company in 1986. Photo: Bloomberg

Microsoft plans multibillion-dollar campus overhaul in Redmond, Washington

2 min read . 29 Nov 2017

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint

For Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, philanthropy is ‘saved for later’

6 min read . 31 Oct 2017

Phil Spencer has cut prices and introduced new models, stabilizing Xbox sales which topped $9 billion last year. Photo: Bloomberg

Microsoft promotes Xbox chief Phil Spencer in sign games are big deal again

1 min read . 20 Sept 2017

The new cloud service also means that Microsoft won’t have the capability to turn over data in response to government warrants and subpoenas. Photo: Reuters

Microsoft adds cloud security to keep out hackers and government snoops

2 min read . 14 Sept 2017

Convoy said on Tuesday it raised $62 million from Bill Gates’s Cascade Investment and other backers. Photo: HT

Bill Gates joins Jeff Bezos in backing Uber freight rival

3 min read . 25 Jul 2017

Microsoft has been working on its own chips for a few years now. It built a motion-tracking processor for its Xbox Kinect video-game system. Photo: Reuters

Microsoft pushes further into chip development in quest for AI leadership

4 min read . 24 Jul 2017

File photo of Microsoft’s chief executive Satya Nadella. Microsoft’s revenue climbed to $24.7 billion, compared with estimates for $24.3 billion, in the latest quarter. Photo: Mint

Microsoft regains turnaround momentum on strong cloud growth

4 min read . 21 Jul 2017

Microsoft is in a pitched battle with companies like Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc., for customers who want to move workplace applications and data to the cloud, as well as take advantage of advances in artificial intelligence. Photo: Reuters

Microsoft shuffles sales, marketing to focus on Cloud, artificial intelligence

1 min read . 04 Jul 2017