Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal and Palantir, says the success of tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft could be boiled down to one factor — they are monopolies. …
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Amazon is the first public company to lose $1 trillion in market value
Amazon.com Inc. is the world’s first public company to lose a trillion dollars in market value as a combination of rising inflation, tightening monetary policies and disappointing earnings updates triggered …
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Microsoft has launched the latest generation of its Surface hardware, including the Surface Pro 9, Surface Laptop 5, and Surface Studio 2+. It also announced a slew of new Microsoft Accessories and …
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EskomSePush will soon get water outage tracking, fire reporting, and support for adding load-shedding to your smartphone or computer’s calendar. Developers Hermann Maritz and Dan Southwood-Wells have told sunday newspaper Rapport …
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ASA 2022: Sterling Bank, Microsoft others to unlock $1trn
Sterling Bank Plc has announced plans with her partners, Leadway Assurance, Nestle Nigeria Plc, Microsoft Nigeria, Thrive Agric, GIZ, Stears Data among others, to unlock $1trillion in Africa’s agricultural sector, …
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Microsoft and Google talent war hit Kenyan firms as wages raise
Local companies are struggling to recruit and retain key talent as US tech titans led by Microsoft, Amazon and Google tilt the market in their favor with high salaries and …
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Microsoft and Google are advertising a combined 17 jobs in South Africa, including travelling data center technician and cloud solution architect positions. Together the software giants employ nearly 380,000 people …
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Microsoft opens US, Canada job opportunities for fresh graduates from Nigeria, other African countries
Microsoft has announced employment opportunities for fresh graduates from Nigerian universities and other African countries. Specifically, the company is looking for software engineers from across Africa to join its US and Canada …
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Samsung profit slumps, a bad sign for Big Tech in 2022
Samsung Electronics Co.’s quarterly profit missed estimates after cooling demand for consumer gadgets hit its chip division, spurring concerns about the outlook for Big Tech in 2022. The world’s largest …
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Microsoft on Tuesday said that its earnings in the recently ended quarter fell shy of expectations as personal computer sales suffered from production holdups in China and sagging demand. The …