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Microsoft (MSFT) reported its fiscal Q2 earnings after the closing bell on Tuesday, beating analysts’ expectations with its cloud services revenue jumping 46%.  The announcement comes just a week after the Redmond, Washington-based tech giant made headlines with news that it will acquire troubled gaming behemoth Activision Blizzard (ATVI) for $68.7 billion. Here are the most important numbers from the report, compared with what analysts were expecting. Revenue: $51.7 billion versus $50.9… Source link

Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where we discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering the biggest stories. The biggest news in tech this week was Microsoft acquiring game publisher Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. On today’s Vergecast, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks with games reporter Ash Parrish and senior reporter Alex Heath about the acquisition, the issues behind the culture at Activision Blizzard, and… Source link

Microsoft (MSFT) shook the tech and gaming industries on Tuesday when it announced its planned purchase of Activision Blizzard (ATVI) for $68.7 billion. The deal, slated to close in 2023, would instantly turn Microsoft into the owner of one of the biggest franchises in the world, “Call of Duty,” and make it a key mobile gaming player. But according to Jefferies analyst Brent Thill, the deal is also a huge win for Activision Blizzard and its employees, who have had to contend with an… Source link

Activision Blizzard (ATVI) shares closed 25% higher on Tuesday after Microsoft (MSFT) announced it will acquire the video game publisher for $95 per share. The deal, valued at $68.7 billion is Microsoft’s largest takeover ever.  When the transaction closes, Microsoft will become the world’s third-largest gaming company by revenue, behind Tencent (TCEHY) and Sony (SONY), according to the tech giant. The deal illustrates another consolidation move within the gaming industry — and massive bet… Source link

To say that Big Tech controls the internet might seem like an exaggeration. Increasingly, in at least one sense, it’s literally true. The internet can seem intangible, a post-physical environment where things like viral posts, virtual goods and metaverse concerts just sort of happen. But creating that illusion requires a truly gargantuan—and quickly-growing—web of physical connections. Fiber-optic cable, which carries 95% of the world’s international internet traffic, links up pretty… Source link

The Microsoft Bing team said that the IndexNow protocol is now at a place where those participating are co-sharing URLs submitted, meaning if you use IndexNow to submit URLs to Microsoft Bing, Microsoft will immediately share those URLs with Yandex, the company announced. Co-sharing URLs. The promise of IndexNow was to submit a URL to one search engine via this protocol and not only will that search engine immediately discover that URL, but it will also be discovered on… Source link

Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive of Google, has paid $65 million for Enchanted Hill, a prized piece of undeveloped land in Beverly Hills that was owned by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, according to people familiar with the situation. The deal, which closed in December, marks the end of a more than three-year push to sell the roughly 120-acre property, which came on the market asking $150 million in 2018.  Source link

It has been a year since Microsoft’s Bing team partnered with Russian search engine Yandex to create and launch IndexNow. This is a new tool that allows website admins to tell search engines about changes to content on a site. Microsoft and Yandex are now updating the tool to make it more useful. This expediates a process that previously required the search engine to discover those content changes on its own. IndexNow is ideal because it provides a simple way for site owners to make… Source link

Last year, Microsoft Bing and Yandex (the most popular search engine in Russia) announced IndexNow, a new way for websites owners to inform search engines about latest content changes on their website. Instead of waiting for search engines to discover the content changes, website owners can now do a simple ping so that search engines know that a URL and its content has been added, updated, or deleted. Recently, Microsoft released IndexNow Plugin for WordPress. This new plugin will enable… Source link

With COVID cases surging, companies are backing out of attending CES in person. Sarah Tew/CNET … Source link