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The growing internet of things (IoT) segment hasn’t been showing any signs of weakening for now. As per IDC, 41.6 billion devices, including smartphones and smart home assistants, should be connected to the internet by the year 2025. The whole market is expected to be worth around $24.88 billion by 2022,At IoT Solutions World Congress on Monday, Microsoft announced new capabilities in its cloud computing service Azure in order to “simplify” the whole process for its customers and deliver...

Photo: QuoteInspectorPeople who are invested in the stock market are currently counting interesting gains as there has been commendable growth in the major stock market indices. On Monday, the S&P 500 increased by 0.7% and successfully set a new record at 3,039.42, beating out the previous record of 3,027.98 which was set a few months ago on July 26.This increase was also seen elsewhere, as the Nasdaq Composite rose by 1% to hit 8,325.99, about 0.5% less than its own record highs. The...

Everybody is familiar with the name of Bill Gates — an American business magnate, the founder of the world’s largest software business Microsoft, and the second richest man in the world. What is the key to his raving success and how can you receive high money if all you have is $10,000? The answer is in our article.Since the establishment of Microsoft in 1975, Gates has held several positions including those of the chairman, CEO and chief software architect. As early as 1987, he was ranked...

Recently, on Friday, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) made it clear that they had chosen Microsoft over Amazon in their $10 billion cloud computing contract, also known as JEDI. With this contract, the Department of Defense will move its database to the cloud. However, this has left Amazon Web Services wondering as they were considered as leaders in the field, and the most likely winner of this contract.“We’re surprised about this conclusion. AWS is the clear leader in cloud computing,...

Amazon Inc. stock is getting battered following a downbeat earnings report.The company announced on Thursday its third-quarter net income fell to $2.1 billion on earnings per share of $4.23, which represents a pretty big fall of around 26% year over year and worse than analysts had expected.During the quarter that ended September 30, the company’s revenue rose to $70 billion, up 24% YoY but it also wasn’t enough to meet the previous estimates. At the same time, Amazon reported its cloud...

Tech-giant Microsoft released its earnings report from their first quarter on Wednesday but MSFT stock hasn’t shown any bigger movements. At the time of writing, however, the stock in premarket went up by 0.64% to $137.24.The results were better-than-expected meaning earnings came to $1.38 per share, excluding certain items. Analysts expected $1.25 per share. Revenue was $33.06 billion that was slightly more than analysts’ expectations of $32.23.Revenue grew 14% in the first quarter of...

American retail giant Amazon has made a new acquisition: the company purchased Health Navigator, a company focused on developing APIs for online health services and providing evidence-based digital health information content. The sum of the deal is not yet clear.According to Amazon, Health Navigator will join the membership of the Amazon Care group, a pilot healthcare service program for Amazon employees launched in September that delivers prescriptions with remotely communicated treatment...

Veteran United States investor, writer, and Entrepreneur Rob Arnott has come out in favor of the American major technology stocks again as being in a bubble even as he lashes out at Bitcoin. He made his thoughts known to the Financial Times in an exclusive while defending the position of including Microsoft in the popular acronym FANMAG which he says is the new direction of technology stocks rather than FAANG.FAANG which is a play on technology companies Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and...

German multinational software corporation, SAP has announced recently that it has entered into an official partnership with Microsoft. A Reuters report states that the partnership, which will last for 3 years, is to facilitate the company’s decision to help customers’ move their core business activity and processes, to the cloud.According to SAP’s Co-Chief Executive Officer, Jennifer Morgan, the partnership is dubbed “Embrace” and will assist the company’s many customers to continue their...

For a long time now, FAANG stocks have been the unofficial standard by which the S&P 500 is measured. FAANG which is an acronym for five of the biggest tech and internet companies – including Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google parent Alphabet Inc., – were regarded by investors, traders and even analysts alike, as the stocks that account for a large percentage of the general returns gotten from the index.For the better part of 2018, FAANG pulled in amazing returns for investors...