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TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer quits amid Trump's threat to ban app: Report

Mayer told employees at TikTok and ByteDance, which controls the app, of his decision to leave on Thursday, people briefed about the matter said

How TikTok's talks with Microsoft morphed into a messy political soap opera

A deal price is unclear, though numbers have ranged from $20 billion to $50 billion depending on what parts of TikTok will be sold

Microsoft brings real time audio transcription feature to Word: Know more

Microsoft 365 users can record conversations directly in Word for the web and the online-only client will transcribe the conversation automatically

TikTok needs free speech arguments to overcome Trump's broad powers to ban

TikTok says that just because its parent, ByteDance Ltd., is based in Beijing, that doesn't exclude the app from being fully protected by the Constitution just like any American company

Microsoft adds English (India), Hindi to speech service Neural TTS

Microsoft India on Tuesday announced the addition of English (India) and Hindi to its Neural Text to Speech (Neural TTS) service language set

Meet the data scientist who is helping Flipkart take e-commerce to Bharat

The e-commerce major's chief data scientist Mayur Datar and is team are building robust data mining engines to help the firm target the next 200 million users

Galaxy Note20 users get premium access to Microsoft apps in India

Samsung on Monday extended its partnership with Microsoft for flagship Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G and Galaxy Note20 smartphones in India

Microsoft says Apple's move against 'Fornite' creator would hurt its games

Apple removed Epic's titles from its App Store after the game maker violated the iPhone maker's in-app payment rules

Microsoft's Internet Explorer bows out, but browser wars aren't over yet

Chrome has steadily gained market share, but its dominance is unlikely to last forever

Big Oil meets Big Tech: Microsoft deepens ties with Brazil's Petrobras

Move puts the firms at the forefront of cloud computing for oil exploration

Unusual for firm acquiring TikTok to give funds to US Treasury: White House

Trump ordered ByteDance last week to divest TikTok's US operations within 90 days

Birlasoft leaps 18%, hits 52-week high as it inks pact with Microsoft

The Strategic Cloud Alliance with Microsoft will further strengthen Biralsoft's digital offerings and will allow them to complement their industry expertise, the company said in a statement

SoftBank builds $1.2 billion Amazon stake; invests in Netflix, Tesla

Chief Executive Masayoshi Son last week announced a new investment management subsidiary that would park excess cash from a massive asset sale programme in liquid stocks

Microsoft patent reveals touch control for old generation laptops

The patent was applied on January 24 and published on August 6, reports Windows United

Trump orders ByteDance to divest interest in US TikTok ops within 90 days

Trump's latest move comes on top of an executive order he issued last week that would prohibit certain transactions with TikTok unless ByteDance divests it within 45 days

TikTok and WeChat expose how US tech giants lack innovation in social media

Despite spending roughly $700 million a year in research and development, the microblogging company's main offering has stayed virtually the same over the past decade

TikTok deal must benefit US and ensure 'total security,' says Trump

Trump made the remarks after issuing an executive order banning transactions with TikTok's Chinese parent Bytedance

Microsoft makes a comeback in smartphone business with its new Duo

Microsoft is back to selling smartphones for the first time since it abandoned its mobile business more than four years ago.

Trump's TikTok ban to cut it off from app stores, advertisers: WH document

Trump signed an order last week prohibiting transactions with TikTok if its parent ByteDance does not reach a deal to divest it in 45 days

Microsoft faces complex technical challenges in TikTok's takeover

Microsoft is negotiating a transition period that will give it time to ringfence TikTok technologically from ByteDance after they agree to a deal, Reuters reported on Aug 2