Skillsoft purchases Codecademy for $525 million
Codecademy, a 40-million user platform designed to learn software development has been obtained by Skillsoft for $525 million, which is a learning platform created for the corporate market
Skillsoft Corp., a publicly-traded digital learning service, has purchased Codecademy for $525 million. The... Read more
European Commission approves Microsoft’s acquisition of Nuance
The European Commission (EC) greenlights Microsoft's acquisition of Nuance. Thereby, it refutes the possibility of a harmful impact on market competition in the European Union.
In April of this year, Microsoft announced its intention to acquire Nuance. Recently, it became clear that the European... Read more
Microsoft acquires Xandr from AT&T
The move marks an aggressive expansion of Microsoft's advances in the advertising space.
AT&T announced this week that it has agreed to sell its global programmatic advertising marketplace, Xandr, to Microsoft. The agreement builds on a decade-long relationship between Xandr, including its p... Read more
Microsoft fixes Windows AppX Installer exploit, blocks Emotet spread
Microsoft squashes multiple vulnerabilities in its solutions. Among them is critical spoofing vulnerability CVE-2021-43890, frequently exploited for Emotet, Trickbot and Bazaloader attacks.
Microsoft releases a December update fixing various vulnerabilities through no less than 67 patches. In No... Read more
Microsoft rolls out end-to-end encryption for Teams video calls
Microsoft updates its Teams collaboration platform with new end-to-end encryption features. Full encryption currently applies only to one-to-one Teams video calls. Group conversations cannot use the security functionality for the time being.
The end-to-end encryption is not set by default for ev... Read more
Microsoft made a $16 billion bid for Nuance
Microsoft is moving towards the acquisition of Nuance communication and is awaiting European Antitrust agency approval!
Microsoft has just announced a $16 billion bid to acquire Nuance Communication — an AI and speech technology company. However, this deal is subject to unconditional EU Antitr... Read more
Microsoft develops AI tool for detecting programming errors
Researchers at Microsoft have developed BugLab, an autonomous AI tool capable of detecting errors in programming code. In this way, security incidents can be prevented.
BugLab is an autonomous tool for fixing and detecting programming errors. Autonomous refers to the model used to train the tool... Read more
Windows 11 offers new video encoding API for apps
Microsoft introduces a new DirectX12 API. The API enables video specialists to process complex video processes more easily.
Examples of processes that stand to benefit are Video Decoding and Video Motion Processing. The API, which is supported by the processing power of CPUs, provides a number o... Read more
Microsoft and Adobe announce a strategic partnership
Adobe and Microsoft have announced a strategic alliance to bring deeper product integrations for their clients.
Microsoft and Adobe have announced partnering together to bring their consumers' outstanding services. The news came to light recently, where Microsoft and Adobe spoke about deeper int... Read more
Microsoft introduces secure-core server portfolio
Microsoft releases its first secure-core servers. The organization adopts the 'secure-core server' label to describe server environments that protect against specific attack methods and malware types.
Secure-core servers defend against specific types of exploits and attacks. Think of ransomware ... Read more