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Microsoft: Over 1.5 million more Outlook.com users added today
Microsoft announced today via Twitter that it added over 1.5 million new users to its Outlook.com email service since the official launch of Outlook.com earlier this morning Read more… Neowin
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Microsoft employees gave $105 million to charity in 2012
Microsoft announced today that as part of its company’s Giving Program, its employees donated over 5 million to various charitable organizations during 2012, a new record for Microsoft. Read more…...
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NBC spent $195 million to buy Microsoft’s portion of MSNBC.com
A new report states that NBC spent 5 million in July 2012 in order to take over the half of MSNBC.com that it didn’t already own from Microsoft, which terminated the two companies’ partnership. Read...
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Samsung may only have to pay Apple $600 million in legal battle
Judge Lucy Koh has ordered a new trial for many of the products named in the legal fight between Samsung and Apple, which could reduce the billion in damaged that Samsung was ordered to pay. Read...
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Nokia will end up owing $650 million to Microsoft
According to the latest financial report filed by Nokia the company will end up owing Microsoft 0 million. This money represents royalties that Nokia pays to use Windows Phone on their smartphones....
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BlackBerry: Unnamed partner bought one million BlackBerry 10 phones
BlackBerry stock went way up today after the company announced that an unnamed partner had put in an order for one million of the company’s BlackBerry 10 smartphones. Read more… Neowin
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Bloomberg: Surface sells only 1.5 million units, 400K are Pros
According to Bloomberg, who have sources close to the matter, the Microsoft Surface line has only sold 1.5 million units since its launch, however 400,000 of those have been Pros with decent adoption...
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Microsoft’s IE Test Drive site celebrates 3rd birthday, 130 million page views
Microsoft announced that its IE Test Drive web pages have generated over 130 million page views since going live three years ago for over 140 HTML5-based web demos. Read more… Neowin
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Analyst: 1 million Windows Phones sold in the US in 2012, seems dubious
Analysts, love them or hate me, sometimes they offer up the only insight into sales numbers when the parent company, in this case, Microsoft, refuses to release the numbers to the public. Read more…...
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Almost one million BlackBerry Z10 smartphones shipped last quarter
BlackBerry said today that in its last fiscal quarter, which ended on March 2nd, it shipped almost one million of its BlackBerry Z10 smartphones, just a couple of weeks before its US launch. Read...
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LinkedIn buys Pulse newsreader app for $90 million
LinkedIn has finally announced it has acquired the Pulse newsreader app team, following rumors of such a deal that started a month ago, for million in a mostly stock deal. Read more… Neowin
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Strategy Analytics: 3 million Windows tablets shipped in Q1 2013
A report from research firm Strategy Analytics claims that three million tablets with a version of Microsoft’s Windows OS shipped worldwide in the first quarter of 2013. Read more… Neowin
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Outlook.com: 400 million active accounts, 125 million mobile users
Microsoft has announced that the transition from Hotmail to Outlook.com has been completed and that there are now 400 million Outlook.com accounts with 125 million mobile users accessing the service....
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Microsoft: 250 million people are now using SkyDrive
Microsoft has announced that over 250 million people are now using its SkyDrive cloud data storage service, an increase of over 50 million new users in the past several months. Read more… Neowin
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Windows 8 reaches 100 million licenses sold
Tami Reller, Microsoft’s Chief Marketing Officer, has revealed that Windows 8 has reached 100 million licenses sold after 6 months on the market, while the Windows Store has seen 250 million downloads...
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Bill Gates’ 60 Minutes preview shows his $30 million da Vinci notebook
CBS News has posted a preview of its 60 Minutes feature on Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates that airs on Sunday, showing Gates’ prized notebook from Leonardo da Vinci he bought for .8 million. Read more…...
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Classic Shell sees 4.3 million downloads since Windows 8 launch
Classic Shell, a free start menu program that was first launched in 2009 for Windows 7, has seen a massive surge in popularity since the launch of Windows 8 and has now topped six million downloads....
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HTC One sees “pretty good” sales of 5 million, far less than the Galaxy S4
HTC have revealed that their new flagship device, the One, has sold “around 5 million” handsets in four months, far behind sales of the Samsung Galaxy S4, which sold 10 million in one month. Read...
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Microsoft: 8.45 million watched Xbox One reveal event in first 24 hours
Microsoft announced today 8.45 million people watched its Xbox One reveal event in its first 24 hours, including 1.73 million people in the US watching the live show on the Spike cable TV network....
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Microsoft settles patent lawsuit with Vringo, will pay $1 million
Microsoft has settled a patent lawsuit filed in January by Vringo for million and will enter an agreement to license patents from Vringo’s subsidiary I/P Engine. Read more… Neowin
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