published Oct 22, 2018, 1:22:54 AM, by Adam Haigh and Andreea Papuc (Bloomberg) — Stocks and U.S. futures erased losses and European contracts advanced as Chinese equities built on a Friday rally after calls for calm from the country’s top finance officials. The dollar and Treasuries dipped. The Shanghai Composite

published Oct 20th 2016, 6:14 pm, by Dina Bass (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp.’s first-quarter sales and earnings topped analysts’ estimates, buoyed by growing demand for cloud-based software and services. Profit excluding certain items was 76 cents a share on adjusted sales of $22.3 billion, the Redmond, Washington-based company said in

published Aug 1st 2016, 6:23 pm, by Christopher Olsen and Claire Boston (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. raised $19.75 billion in the third-largest U.S. corporate bond sale of the year to help finance its planned purchase of LinkedIn Corp. Investors put in more than $50 billion of orders for the deal

published Jun 14th 2016, 8:00 am, by Matt Levine (Bloomberg View) — LinkedSoft. The most terrifying slide in the investor presentation for Microsoft’s $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn features this bubble: The archetypal joke about the deal is an image of the old Microsoft Clippy saying “I’d Like to Add you

©2016 Bloomberg News O3HOC9SYF01U (Bloomberg) — Tech giants including Microsoft Corp. and Google rallied to Apple Inc.’s side in its fight against a judge’s order to help unlock the iPhone of a dead terrorist. The 15 companies, including Facebook Inc. and Amazon.com, are seeking to support Apple through a so-called

©2015 Bloomberg News O078VN6JTSE9 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. said it will tell users of its e-mail and cloud storage services when government-backed hackers may have targeted them. The policy expands on existing procedures where Microsoft tells users if they believe an account has been targeted or compromised by a third

©2015 Bloomberg News NXD6LN6K50YP (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc. has started a new research team to work on areas like virtual-reality and augmented-reality content creation, and raided Microsoft’s research labs for its first three hires. The social network’s new Seattle-based Computational Photography applied research group website lists Michael Cohen, Rick Szeliski and

©2015 Bloomberg News NQQAKLSYF01T (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. is getting out of Web display advertising, with AOL Inc. taking over the business and letting the software maker focus on mobile and cloud computing. AOL will use Microsoft’s Bing Internet search engine instead of Google Inc. as part of the 10-year

©2015 Bloomberg News NOCYAK6KLVR7 (Bloomberg) — The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index closed at an all-time high, halting a three-session slide, as Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc. led a rally in technology shares and the weaker dollar spurred gains in multi-national companies. Microsoft and Apple added at least 2.3 percent,

©2015 Bloomberg News NNAABH6K510D (Bloomberg) — Minutes after the Nasdaq Composite closed at a record, three of the biggest bellwethers in technology reminded the market precisely why investors are so bullish on companies that do business through the Web. Amazon.com Inc. for the first time broke out sales from its