Microsoft Corp's Teams chat and conferencing app gained more than 12 million daily users in one week, a 37.5% jump as more people worked from home during the coronavirus outbreak, the company said on Thursday.
In early trading on Thursday, shares of Walmart topped the list of the day's best performing Dow Jones Industrial Average components, trading up 1.6%. Year to date, Walmart registers a 4.4% gain.
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Shares of mega-technology stocks Alphabet, Microsoft, and Facebook slumped on Wednesday as the stock market continued to convulse due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. At 2:50 p.m. EDT, the S&P 500 index was down about 8.7%.
Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) are continuing to battle in the console war. Both companies are hosting digital presentations this week to talk about what's under the hood of their respective game systems, which are scheduled to launch in time for the holidays late
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(RTTNews) - Tech giant Microsoft (MSFT) is set to help Japanese tractor and heavy equipment manufacturer Kubota with digital transformation. Both the companies have entered a multi-year strategic alliance, through which Kubota will migrate its IT infrastructure and SAP mission-c
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Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) Webex virtual conferencing software is seeing a huge uptick in usage as the coronavirus forces many employees to work from home.
With most Americans living under what amounts to house arrest, many retailers have decided to close their stores until the coronavirus pandemic passes. That list includes Apple, Nike, and now Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), which took to Twitter to share its decision.