Microsoft Offers Voluntary Retirements Instead of Layoffs

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced its third quarter results that outpaced market expectations. But its outlook for the current quarter was not that impressive.

Cloud Stocks: Microsoft Needs to Deliver Faster AI Returns

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) recently announced strong quarterly results, but despite their performance, the market was not happy. The stock slid 12% after results were announced as investors remain concerned about the high spending on AI and slow growth on cloud. This was the biggest fall for Microsoft since 2020.

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Martin Neale, CEO of ICS (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: The text-to-voice technology is from Nuance? Martin Neale: It’s not. It might be from Nuance at some point, but Microsoft is already doing their own telephony integration. We use another vendor’s technology for the telephony piece. Sramana Mitra: Talk to me about the healthcare public service case studies. What kinds of applications and

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Chris Gatch, CTO of Cbeyond (Part 4)

SM: What is the impact of Apple in all of this? CG: They’ve changed the browser landscape pretty considerably. They’ve driven HTML 5 shift in the industry and are forcing customers to have to redevelop sites that are moving away from Flash. We haven’t to have client solutions for tools that we roll out that

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Frank Dale, CEO of Compendium (Part 8)

SM: Their starting prices are $1,000 or $2,000 a month. FD: That’s pretty common in that space, and certainly with a company like Marketo or Eloqua, you’re looking at a mid-market enterprise level tool. If I were going to look for something like that, to unify that a little bit, I’m probably going to look

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Outsourcing: David Bonthrone, Executive Vice-President, Group FMG (Part 1)

When people think of outsourcing, things like customer service and Web development often come to mind. Group FMG is an international marketing solutions company with business offices in New York, London, Bangalore and Chennai. Group FMG helps clients develop brand strategies, builds e-commerce solutions and produces content that attracts customers and facilitates business growth. The

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Penny Herscher, CEO of FirstRain (Part 1)

The sales and marketing teams of large enterprises have their work cut out for them when it comes to curating new business. So, they welcome companies like FirstRain that facilitate the research that’s required to effectively cultivate relationships with prospects. FirstRain is an international company based in San Mateo, California. With satellite offices in New

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2012: Sensible Softwares, Pune, India

Sensible Softwares is a 1M/1M premium company that launched in August 2009 with its flagship product BootStrapToday. BootStrapToday is an application life cycle management platform for software development teams. In just 60 seconds, software development teams can get started managing the life cycles of their projects. In any software development undertaking, 30% to 40% of

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