Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft yesterday announced mixed financial results for the third quarter of the company’s 2017 fiscal year. Revenue ($23.56 billion) came in just below Wall Street estimates but earnings per share ($0.73) surpassed expectations, due, in part, to the Redmond, Wash. tech titan’s increasingly profitable cloud business. Increased demand for Azure and other cloud services “drove […]

One way Microsoft is keeping its cloud business growing is by catering to the needs of enterprise developers. The week, the company released new Azure management libraries for .NET and Java, enabling developers to incorporate common cloud management functions into their applications. Within the Azure Management Libraries for.NET and Java are open source components that […]

Microsoft’s latest earnings fell short of financial analyst expectations in terms of revenue, but its earnings per share performance managed to beat estimates. The company today reported revenue of $23.56 billion and earnings per share of $0.73 for the third-quarter of fiscal year 2017. Wall Street analysts had expected revenue of $23.62 billion and earnings […]

NEW YORK—SAP is tapping the expertise of New York City area universities, entrepreneurs and partner companies the help grow the tech startup scene here and accelerate innovation in business technology. In partnership with the Hasso Plattner Institute, an IT-focused university in Germany named after the SAP co-founder, the company set up SAP Next-Gen in one […]

Microsoft has upgraded its Azure Media Player, the company’s cloud-based streaming technology, to help Azure Media Services customers monetize their online videos. During the National Association of Broadcaster’s NAB Show 2017 in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced version 2 of its Azure Media Player, which now supports video ads. In an April 25 announcement, Saili Raje, […]

On the heels of the Microsoft To-Do app release, which is slated to replace Wunderlist, the software giant this week announced several new updates and enhancements to the Office 365 suite. Among them is the worldwide rollout of the upgraded Outlook Customer Manager, a software tool that enables Office 365 small business users to keep […]

Microsoft is making good in its pledge to integrate LinkedIn with the rest of its business software empire. When Microsoft acquired LinkedIn last year for $26 billion, the company explicitly stated that one of its goals plans to integrate the massive professional network with its cloud-enabled software portfolio, including Office 365 and Dynamics 365, specifically […]

Zive, the New York City-based developer behind the popular Kiwi for Gmail app for Mac users, has made the leap to Windows to give Office a run for its money. The company today launched Kiwi for Gmail 2.0 for Windows, providing users of G Suite a desktop-like alternative to Google’s browser-based productivity applications, which includes […]

The clock is ticking for users of the popular and highly-regarded Wunderlist app. Microsoft on April 19 released a preview version of To-Do, a task management app inspired by Wunderlist, for iOS, Android, Windows and the web. The company acquired 6Wunderkinder, the German makers of the popular Wunderlist app, in 2015. Microsoft reportedly paid between […]

Microsoft has high hopes for its mixed reality and industrial Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in manufacturing plants. The Redmond, Wash. software giant and its partners have gathered at the Hannover Messe 2017 conference in Germany to show off their latest innovations and how they can help factories churn out higher-quality products more efficiently. One […]