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Microsoft Announces General Availability Of Azure OpenAI Services, ChatGPT Coming Soon

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 is reportedly integrating ChatGPT’s technology into Bing

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

Microsoft and FTC pre-trial hearing set for January 3rd

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

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

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

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

Microsoft Advertising Poised To Offer Google-Like ‘Performance Max’ Platform

Microsoft Advertising Poised To Offer Google-Like ‘Performance Max’ Platform by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, October 28, 2022 Microsoft Advertising developers have been quietly building a platform similar to Google Performance Max that the company plans to roll out in the first half of 2023. Today, Microsoft allows advertisers to import the data into its system from … Continue reading Microsoft Advertising Poised To Offer Google-Like ‘Performance Max’ Platform

4 digital marketing pain points SMBs face today by Microsoft Advertising

Advertising hurdles SMBs face – and solutions to level up. Microsoft Advertising on October 28, 2022   To succeed as a small or medium-sized business (SMB), employees must work smarter. Tight budgets and scrappy teams require innovation at every level — from the Founder and CMO, e-commerce Marketing Director to VP of Marketing, Social Media … Continue reading 4 digital marketing pain points SMBs face today by Microsoft Advertising

Old-school employers like AT&T, Cisco, and Microsoft may offer the best career advancement

  By Sam Becker October 17, 2022   It’s not easy to live up to the standards of new generations, particularly for those who’ve been around for decades. But some of corporate America’s largest and oldest companies are finding ways to roll with the punches, and are earning high marks for being places where workers … Continue reading Old-school employers like AT&T, Cisco, and Microsoft may offer the best career advancement

Microsoft In Advanced Talks To Give OpenAI More Funding As Companies Rush To Use AI

Microsoft In Advanced Talks To Give OpenAI More Funding As Companies Rush To Use AI by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, October 21, 2022 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, … Continue reading Microsoft In Advanced Talks To Give OpenAI More Funding As Companies Rush To Use AI