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Illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios Google is squaring off again against familiar competitors like Microsoft and Amazon — but this time it’s for lucrative contracts with the federal government. Why it matters: Google sees an opening to chip away at Microsoft’s dominance in federal government contracting, to keep making more money off its Cloud service and to nip at the heels of its other main competitor, Amazon Web Services. Google is already battling Microsoft on a number of fronts over… Source link

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Microsoft is looking for unusual opportunities for advertisers to use its platform. Case in point: The major soccer tournament takes place this year in Qatar. This year the worldwide event takes place in November, overlapping with the peak retail-buying season. Many of this year’s World Cup soccer games will take … Source link

Lackluster earnings and outlooks from Alphabet, Microsoft, and Spotify late Tuesday have cast clouds over an already nervous stock market. Alphabet and Microsoft both signaled a more watchful eye on expenses as the economic slowdown rages on. And Spotify — similar to Alphabet — called out economic-related weakness in the advertising market as one reason for its tepid results. All three household name tech stocks plunged on the downbeat commentary. They were also the most visited ticker… Source link

Lackluster earnings and outlooks from Alphabet, Microsoft, and Spotify late Tuesday have cast clouds over an already nervous stock market. Alphabet and Microsoft both signaled a more watchful eye on expenses as the economic slowdown rages on. And Spotify — similar to Alphabet — called out economic-related weakness in the advertising market as one reason for its tepid results. All three household name tech stocks plunged on the downbeat commentary. They were also the most visited ticker… Source link

Alphabet (GOOGL): Shares of Google’s parent company fell in extended trading after the company missed Wall Street estimates on the top and bottom lines. Sales for the quarter was $69.09 billion, up 6% from a year ago. Earnings were $1.06 a share. YouTube advertising revenue fell from the previous quarter to $7.1 billion, below analyst expectations for $7.4 billion. Morningstar Senior Equity Analyst Ali Mogharabi told Yahoo Finance the results were ‘disappointing’ and reflected the… Source link

“When Google stumbles, it’s a bad omen for digital advertising at large,” said Evelyn Mitchell, principal analyst at Insider Intelligence, noting that Google’s core website has in the past been more resilient to ad spending downturns than social media sites like Facebook or Snap. Source link

Microsoft is in advanced talks for a new round of funding in OpenAI, as the software and tech giant further builds artificial intelligence (AI) into its products, according to several reports. In 2019, Microsoft backed the startup with $1 billion in capital that included credits to use Microsoft’s Azure cloud-computing services to … Source link

Four years ago Microsoft dedicated a glowing portrait to KC Lemson in order to properly celebrate her contribution as the creator of its unofficial yet beloved Ninja Cat mascot. On Monday, the trailblazing “maestro of fun, mastermind of memes,” as Microsoft described her, found out she had been laid off from the software company she loved after more than two decades. “I’ve got a good network and sent a lot of feelers out today, but there just aren’t many openings,” she posted late… Source link