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Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella wants to win customers with artificial intelligence tools. Increasingly these services need to operate in Microsoft’s own cloud data centers and on customers’ connected devices, including factory equipment and drones. As Microsoft, Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google race to add AI products and make their clouds run faster, all are boosting work on customized microprocessors to try to gain an edge. Continue reading Microsoft Bets on Faster Chips, AI Services, to Win Cloud Wars→

Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. may be competing with each other in the cloud-computing market, but in the realm of voice-controlled personal assistants, Cortana and Alexa are forging a friendship. Continue reading Microsoft, Amazon Show Alexa and Cortana Cozying Up Together→

The company is moving its long-term, rarely used data, known as cold data storage, to Google’s Cloud service. Continue reading Google's Cloud Division Wins Some Business From Twitter→

Is it strange to think that some government bureaucrats in the antitrust department of the Justice Department had a better feel for how Microsoft could improve its business model than Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer did? Maybe it is. But they really did h… Continue reading Microsoft's Turnaround Could Have Started Sooner→

TSB Banking Group Chief Executive Officer Paul Pester, who’s run the lender since 2013, said he takes “absolute responsibility” for “unacceptable” customer service, in testimony before the Treasury Select Committee in London on Wednesday. Continue reading TSB CEO Apologizes to U.K. Lawmakers for IT System `Shambles'→

Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook highlighted strong revenue growth from iPhones, services and wearable devices like the Apple Watch. Continue reading Apple Tops Sales Estimates on Services, IPhone Stability→

Facebook Inc. is going to let users see which websites and apps send the social network data on their activity — and then give them the option to delete it, with a new “clear history” tool. Continue reading Facebook Lets Users Scrub Web Data With `Clear History' Tool→

Technology companies have an obligation to address the unintended consequences of advances like artificial intelligence and innovations that enable damaging cyber-attacks, said Atti Riazi, chief information technology officer at the United Nations. Continue reading Tech Firms Can't Wash Hands of Harmful Effects, UN CIO Says→

The partnership with Alphabet Inc.’s Google is the first sign that Fitbit Chief Executive Officer James Park is executing on his vision to rely less on consumers and more on the health-care industry. Fitbit’s slice of the wearable-device market has dec… Continue reading Fitbit Gains on Pact With Google Cloud for Health-Care Push→

The chipmaker, working with health companies, aims to use so-called blockchain technology — similar to the one that underpins the digital currency Bitcoin — to better trace drugs and potentially stem the epidemic. Continue reading Can Blockchain Fix the Opioid Epidemic? Intel Wants to Find Out→