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Microsoft at 50: the 4 worst train wrecks in the company’s history
Microsoft is worth roughly $1 trillion today, but that sky-high valuation didn’t come without a few train wrecks during its first 50 years. I’m not talking about smaller screwups like the brain-dead Clippy, Microsoft’s intrusive Office helper from 1995. Instead, I’m looking at the ones with major consequences that in some cases set Microsoft back years, made it lose out…
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Former OpenAI employees urge regulators to halt company’s for-profit shift – Computerworld
A legally binding mission OpenAI was created in 2015 as a nonprofit with a single, far-reaching goal: to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity. Its 2018 Charter outlines principles such as broadly distributed benefits, long-term safety, cooperative development, and technical leadership. These values were designed to steer OpenAI’s work even as it began raising external investment. In 2019, OpenAI…
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‘Here in the European market, I think we are in a good position’: DocuWare CEO Michael Berger on the company’s rapid growth
German SaaS company DocuWare is on a remarkable upward curve. As an independent subsidiary of Ricoh, the channel-focused business has found global success providing document storage and automation services. Incorporated in 1988 as “DOCUNET Gmbh”, the company has become an innovative cloud-based software provider and a leader in the paperless business space. More recently, the company has undergone a significant…
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At 50, Microsoft highlights AI and Copilot as the company’s future – Computerworld
At a special 50th anniversary event on Friday, Microsoft executives reflected on the company’s storied past and on how it’s now reinventing itself for an AI-focused future. With previous CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer in attendance, current CEO Satya Nadella boasted that the company is “leading this new wave of AI innovation, and more importantly, democratizing just like we…
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Bill Gates is Gifting Everyone With the Company’s Original Source Code
Image: Bill Gates/YouTube Fifty years ago, Bill Gates and his childhood friend Paul Allen founded a company called “Micro-Soft” in a strip mall in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Half a century later, the company has cemented its place among tech giants and ranks as the world’s second-largest company. Currently, the only company with a higher market cap is Apple, maker of…
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Intel CEO Tan Starts Company’s Pivot: Spin Off Non-Core Assets
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Image: Intel Business/YouTube Intel will spin off assets that aren’t part of its core mission, according to Bloomberg. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who became CEO in mid-March after Pat Gelsinger took a heavily encouraged suggestion to retire, made the announcement on March 31 at the Intel Vision conference. Tan did not define the core business or…
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Gemini 2.5 is the company’s ‘most intelligent AI model yet’ – Computerworld
Google is beating the drum for Gemini 2.5, a new AI model that reportedly offers better performance than similar reasoning models from competitors such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Deepseek. Google calls it its “most intelligent AI model yet.” According to a post on The Keyword blog, Gemini 2.5 can, among other things, analyze information, draw logical conclusions, take context into…
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DEI rollbacks could exacerbate tech talent shortages – nearly half of recruitment leaders worry diversity cuts will impact their company’s appeal and employee retention
Finding talent with AI skills has already become a major challenge for enterprises, but with some enterprises shelving DEI hiring practices, research suggests the situation could get worse. In General Assembly’s State of Tech Talent report, two-thirds of recruitment leaders said hiring candidates with AI skills is more challenging than recruiting for other tech roles. This means many enterprises have…
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Samsung tri-fold smartphone may be part of company’s 2025 release plans
Huawei launched the world’s first triple fold phone last fall, followed almost immediately by rumors that Samsung would produce a tri-fold device of its own. Those plans could be taking shape, as a report out of Korea from Sisa Journal (via leaker Jukanlosreve) claims that Samsung’s version of a phone with a triple folding display will launch this year. Reportedly,…
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Apple CEO Tim Cook hails company’s “deep connection” with UK as figures show it’s invested £18 billion since 2019
Apple CEO Tim Cook has hailed the company’s “deep connection” with the UK as it continues its expansion efforts across the country. Cook’s comments follow the publication of figures by Apple showing it has doubled the size of its engineering workforce in the UK over the last five years. The tech giant has also invested more than £18 billion in…
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