Tech giant to retire service it acquired for $8.5bn after being overtaken by upstarts such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Zoom ...

US tech giant says it has harnessed a new state of matter to create the basic building blocks of a quantum machine ...

Microsoft has pledged to spend about $80bn ... On Wednesday, Nvidia’s chief financial officer Colette Kress told the Financial Times the company was engaging with the Trump administration ...

OpenAI’s board is locked in complex negotiations to become a for-profit company, struggling to determine the price of Microsoft’s stake in the start-up while holding talks to value its newly formed ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Microsoft’s artificial intelligence head Mustafa Suleyman has poached his former colleagues at Google ...

The imperative is clear, says Deborah Shakespeare, Analytics Lead at Microsoft. “The financial implications ... This will shorten response times, improve products and anticipate and head off ...