Microsoft Bing Relying More On Tags To Identify Last Updates To Website by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, February 1, 2023 Microsoft Bing will soon rely much more on the date specified in the “lastmod” field in the XML sitemap for crawling. The “lastmod” field is the date the page was last modified, which appears … Continue reading Microsoft Bing Relying More On Tags To Identify Last Updates To Website
Microsoft Cloud Fuels Earnings And Future In AI, But Computer Services Decline by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, January 24, 2023 Microsoft on Tuesday reported revenue declines from its Windows Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Operations and from Xbox content and online services. The company earned an adjusted $2.32 a share on sales of $52.7 billion in the … Continue reading Microsoft Cloud Fuels Earnings And Future In AI, But Computer Services Decline
Meta is laying off more than 11,000 employees Karissa Bell @karissabe Meta is reducing the size of its workforce by about 13 percent and letting more than 11,000 of its employees go in the first mass layoffs in the company’s history. Mark Zuckerberg has announced the move in a message to employees, which Meta … Continue reading Microsoft could lay off as many as 11,000 employees this week
Microsoft Makes Last-Touch Attribution For Automated Bidding Generally Available by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, January 20, 2023 Microsoft Advertising released a model into general availability that it calls “last-touch attribution for automated bidding” on the Microsoft Audience Network this week. Daniel Godoy, evangelist at Microsoft Advertising, provided this update during a presentation. He said enabling the feature when … Continue reading Microsoft Makes Last-Touch Attribution For Automated Bidding Generally Available
Microsoft Announces General Availability Of Azure OpenAI Services, ChatGPT Coming Soon by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, January 17, 2023 Microsoft has announced it will add OpenAI’s artificial intelligence (AI) bot ChatGPT to its cloud-based Azure service, building on an existing relationship between the two companies. Azure OpenAI has only been available to a limited set of … Continue reading Microsoft Announces General Availability Of Azure OpenAI Services, ChatGPT Coming Soon
Microsoft invests $1 billion in Elon Musk-founded OpenAI Christine Fishe @cfisherwrites Today, Microsoft announced that it’s investing $1 billion in the Elon Musk-founded company OpenAI. The two companies will work together to bring supercomputing technologies and AI to Microsoft Azure. And OpenAI will run its services exclusively in Microsoft’s cloud. Ultimately, the partners hope … Continue reading Microsoft is reportedly integrating ChatGPT’s technology into Bing
Jon Fingas @jonfingas Microsoft just made one of the largest-ever bids for a game studio. The company has announced plans to acquire Activision Blizzard for $95 per share, valuing the all-cash deal at an enormous $68.7 billion. The deal would make the combined entity the “third-largest” game company by revenue, according to Microsoft, and would … Continue reading Microsoft and FTC pre-trial hearing set for January 3rd
Microsoft To Build Complete Omnichannel Retail Media Platform by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, January 10, 2023 Microsoft on Tuesday shared its vision to create the industry’s most complete omnichannel retail media technology stack supported by its PromoteIQ platform, which the company acquired in late 2019. The news announced ahead of the National Retail Federation conference, which takes place … Continue reading Microsoft To Build Complete Omnichannel Retail Media Platform
Microsoft Adds Automation To Retargeting Lists, Integrates Customer Match With Adobe, Others by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, December 2, 2022 Microsoft Advertising has released updates to its Audience Targeting feature and Audience Network such as customer match integrations, auto-generated remarketing lists, and video ads. Customer match integrations — which allows marketers to use email lists that … Continue reading Microsoft Adds Automation To Retargeting Lists, Integrates Customer Match With Adobe, Others
Microsoft Job Posts Hint At New Strategy For Windows, Cloud, Ads by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, November 4, 2022 A Microsoft job post hints at an ad-supported version of Windows. Ads could have a bigger role for the company in this strategy.The recruitment listing, initially spotted by ZDNet, calls for a principal software engineering manager. The … Continue reading Microsoft Job Posts Hint At New Strategy For Windows, Cloud, Ads
