TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Signaling its ambitions in the process automation market, Microsoft has acquired Minit , a Bratislava, Slovakia-originated process mining technology vendor, for an undisclosed sum, the companies announced today. “Minit currently enables businesses to transform the way they analyze, monitor and optimize their processes.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

He has helped build a multibillion dollar SaaS business, scale new product businesses and delivered go-to-market and demand-gen strategies at Box and Microsoft. Many industry commentators saw it as a signal of a much more profound shift, where customers were paring back spending and abandoning subscriptions as a category.

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CIO

MAY 3, 2024

MeRA, which the R&D team first released into limited production in November, will be adapted and extended to all categories of customer contact — and it will be applied to other functions within the enterprise, including human resources, sales, and finance, Subramanian says. For MeRA, UPS started with Microsoft OpenAI LLMs, GPT 3.5

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CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2023

PayScale offers data on similar job titles that fall under the category of business analyst. Business analytics tools and software Business analysts typically rely on software such as Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Access, SQL, Google Analytics, and Tableau. Washington, D.C.,

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2023

New research from Microsoft on use of its Copilot AI assistant points to ways that everyone—from the most junior individual contributor to the CEO—can lean in to doing so in any organization. That said, it’s still worthwhile to think about how to use large language model (LLM)-powered tools like ChatGPT in more strategic ways.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

Historically, environmental health and safety software hasn’t been a massive market — at least compared to others in the software-as-a-service segment — and it’s admittedly not the most enthralling startup category. But that’s changing, according to a new survey released by research firm Verdantix.

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CIO

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In summer 2022, P&G sealed a multiyear partnership with Microsoft to transform P&G’s digital manufacturing platform. P&G balances the organization between central teams and teams embedded in its categories and markets.

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InfoWorld

JANUARY 15, 2024

With giants like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon investing millions in R&D for their AI solutions, it’s hardly surprising that global adoption of AI technologies more than doubled between the years 2017 and 2022. So, what exactly has changed in the last five years of AI development?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

— Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Image prompts : Microsoft is enabling Bing users to tap into their most creative selves — through AI, of course, via the use of OpenAI’s DALL-E image creator, Frederic reports. Frederic also writes about two additional features, Visual Stories and Knowledge Cards.

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Tenable

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Microsoft addressed over 900 CVEs as part of Patch Tuesday releases in 2023, including over 20 zero-day vulnerabilities. Background Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, a monthly release of software patches for various Microsoft products, celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2023. of all CVEs patched. of vulnerabilities patched.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

And in other mega-unicorn news, it appears that Microsoft is tempted to plonk down $10 billion for Discord. It’s just $10 billion from Microsoft’s $1,780 billion valuation. Sticking to the $10 billion-and-greater category, Plaid could be raising $600 million at a valuation of $10 billion to $15 billion.

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CloudZero

AUGUST 19, 2022

Toward the end of Q1, 2022, survey findings reported that Microsoft's Azure cloud computing services had, for the first time, eclipsed Amazon Web Services (AWS) in some enterprise categories. According to the respondents, more enterprises preferred Azure because it integrates well with the many Microsoft products they already use.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

The contest is nationwide, asking young folks age 13-18 to submit their project, company, or however they like to define it, and five each in three categories are awarded $5,000. A winner from each category gets an additional $5,000 plus a pitch-off with T-Mo brass, and a chance for a final $5,000 check. Some of these are pretty legit.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

But as last year’s crypto experts quickly work to rebrand as AI experts, they’ll have to compete with the VCs who have been investing in the category all along. Seattle-based Ascend is one of them. Firm founder and solo GP Kirby Winfield has been involved in the AI sector as either a founder or investor since the 90s.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

That’s what Microsoft is saying after some of its services, like Outlook, Xbox Live and Teams, went down during a “change made to the Microsoft Wide Area Network,” Ivan reports. We’re pretty excited about Matt ’s TechCrunch Live, where he talks to Cambly about how the company found profits after failing to raise a Series A.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Martin says Clockwise differs from other smart calendar platforms because the company is creating a new category it calls “time orchestration,” a modern way to bring schedules together at the organizational level. ” Clockwise’s Series C investment follows its $18 million Series B funding round announced in June 2020.

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CIO

APRIL 25, 2023

Evans’ third category is, “Oh my god we have accidentally invented the atom bomb.” percentage points a year, a de facto doubling from its current rate, and research from Microsoft suggests that developers can perform tasks more than 50% faster when using an AI assistant. Of course, for every naysayer there is an evangelist.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Business intelligence is an increasingly well-funded category in the software-as-a-service market. Pervasive BI remains elusive, but statistics on the category reveal that about a third of employees use BI tools for analytics to inform strategy. “In short, data teams in enterprise analytics are stuck in the past.

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CIO

JULY 25, 2023

A college internship in Puerto Rico with Microsoft gave him the spark of an idea, and after working for six months in IT for a bank, also located on the island, he saw his opportunity. But when Hurricane Maria, a devastating category-5 storm, struck the island in September 2017, Lugo’s business came to a standstill.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2, AirTree Ventures and Salesforce Ventures co-led this Series D, with Blue Cloud Ventures, Larsen Ventures, Madrona Venture Group, Microsoft’s M12, SEEK, TEN13 and Tiger Global also participating. (To GO1, an enterprise learning platform, picks up $40M from Microsoft, Salesforce and more.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In retail, for example, software has been the fastest-growing job category ; about half of the world’s software engineers work outside the tech industry. Their customers were more satisfied, and their business colleagues had a better employee experience. And this doesn’t matter only for tech companies. million in the United States.

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CIO

MARCH 30, 2023

Hype still surrounds some predictions, but change is here, and one of the first product categories to be impacted is CRM systems. The potential for generative AI systems such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard to transform how businesses work is being realized.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

In the category of intranets, competitors include Simpplr (raised $29.1 Staffbase claims its advantages are that it brings together mobile employee apps and intranets into one platform, as well as integrating with the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, as well as the messaging platform Slack. million) and Social Chorus (raised $47 million).

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Many small companies rely on Microsoft Excel to figure out their cash position every week or every month. Agicap tries to break down how much you’re spending by category and branch. In addition to Greenoaks, existing investors BlackFin Capital Partners and Partech are also participating in the round.

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CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Like SaaS, it is an all-inclusive category that can span the entire IT infrastructure portfolio from compute to storage to networks. Examples include Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. NaaS is different from SaaS and IaaS because it relates only to networking functionality, (i.e.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Few investors are interested in making a hardware play in the AR/VR world, noting that startups don’t have the resources to compete with Facebook or Microsoft on a large-scale rollout. These are the kinds of innovations that makes me optimistic about the VR category in general. What do you want to see before you make a play here?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Indeed, in pre-market trading this morning, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Amazon are all down. We’re seeing valuations pause in tech’s hottest category — SaaS and cloud — despite continued growth in its constituent companies. Alphabet is the only member of the Big Five that is worth more today than yesterday.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

They are the clear category leader in an important and emerging field of data and standards at the intersection of climate, public health and the economy,” Ahn said in a statement. Another key investor is Microsoft, which has backed the company through one of the first direct investments from the Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund. . “We

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Wigdahl said company today competes against “big tech” — that is, major companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft (which now has Nuance) that have build speech recognition engines and provide the tech as a service to third parties. Image Credits: speechmatics (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

PowerPoint has over one billion installs and 500 million users alone, thanks to Microsoft’s longtime bundling of Office with certain Windows editions. Also slotting somewhere in the product category is Gamma , a presentation designer platform built around a card-like interface.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The company has formed partnerships with a number of key device manufacturers including Microsoft, Convergint Technologies and Johnson Controls, among others. Image Credits: SecuriThings. They work with a range of industries including airports, casinos and large corporate campuses.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Jones has grown to 3,000 employees, and its clients include Unilever, Accenture, Google, Adidas, Marriott and Microsoft. “The brand tech category didn’t even exist before You & Mr Jones was established,” Forte said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

My hunch is that it’s Excel, the Microsoft spreadsheet app that has been around longer than the modern internet — and, let’s be clear, has been shipping longer than your scribe has been alive. The CFO suite used to be a Microsoft Office license, I suppose. The world versus Excel. Things have changed.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Carly reports on a new Microsoft report that says attackers have discovered some vulnerable web servers with really old software and are using them to hack energy grids. Did you ear what’s hot this year : Hearing aids may be the surprise holiday gift category nobody saw coming, Haje writes. – Christine and Haje. Exposed! :

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Microsoft also breaks out growth for its Azure service, but with other services included in the reporting category, the exact number is harder to nail down. Amazon breaks out its results on a quarterly basis, showing the world exactly how much cloud revenue it generates, as well as the resulting operating profit.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

We all have a lot of apps on our phones, but Sarah reports that for the first time in a while, the app economy slowed , with consumer spending in this category down 2% to $167 billion. A new, fresher Microsoft : Microsoft has a less expensive version of its 365 product that comes with 100 GB of storage, Outlook and more for $1.99

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

When I spoke to the company at launch, an executive outlined a 10-year plan to become a major player in both the mobile and smart home categories. Image Credits: Microsoft. Microsoft shut down its Twitch competitor Mixer this year, handing off its partnerships to Facebook Gaming. Total Raised: $520,000. The Outline (2016-2020).

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