Microsoft consolidates its startup outreach programs
Microsoft is consolidating a number of its startup outreach programs into a single, new Microsoft Ventures unit.
Microsoft is consolidating a number of its startup outreach programs into a single, new Microsoft Ventures unit.
What's behind the plummeting price of Yahoo! and other web-centric firms, in the face of respectable earnings?
Since May, Microsoft Ventures has made investments in 18 companies/entities. It also now has a dedicated AI fund.
Microsoft has purchased R2 Studios, a startup working on home-automation applications, and is folding the new company into its Xbox division.
It's a new twist in the growing 'ask-the-experts' genre -- Keen.com goes global into 229 countries, with a little help from the telephone.
Microsoft has made over its Ventures group, and plans to use it to make early-stage investments in cloud, security and machine-learning startups.