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...Players continue to flock to GTA V a decade after it was first released, thanks to a steady stream of new content and add-ons from its developer, Rockstar....
...kadhim@ft.com / sid.v@ft.com...
...To recap: Microsoft warned in a blog post last Tuesday that on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server had come under attack, opening up access to email accounts and allowing the installation of malware...
...Klein’s Churchill Capital Corp IV, which is merging with Tesla-wannabe Lucid, had the largest short interest of any Spac, at $373m....
...But, Mr Ni concluded, Chinese-made chips based on RISC-V architecture are not controlled by other countries and have a future in emerging markets....
...‘Everybody’s been looking for the sign’ “It has been quite a week,” said Lise Buyer, who advises companies on their initial public offerings at Class V Group....
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
...One of his touchstones for anti-competitive behaviour is the late 1990s US v Microsoft case, in which the company was found guilty of using its operating system monopoly to stifle competitors like Netscape...
...The highest court in the US said on Monday that it would hear the case — United States v Microsoft — after a lower court became deadlocked on the issue, which pits the reach of law enforcement against a...
...These include eBay v MercExchange (which made it harder for patent owners to win an injunction, one of their most powerful weapons) and Alice Corp v CLS Bank International (which limited the patentability...
...“You can’t put Grand Theft Auto V on an iPhone, it’s not the same experience. People were thinking about them like software companies when they should look at them like television and movies.”...
...Microsoft buys Swiftkey Microsoft is paying about $250m to acquire London-based Swiftkey, maker of a predictive keyboard powered by artificial intelligence that is installed on hundreds of millions of smartphones...
...Microsoft, which has already had to change the name of its SkyDrive cloud service to OneDrive after the UK media group objected, will appeal against this latest decision....
...Google has no global search rivals but (suppressed giggle) Microsoft. Yet shoppers looking for an item often go straight to browsing Amazon....
...Steve Ballmer, the tough CEO at Microsoft, was famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to rivals such as Google....
...Take Two Entertainment's GTA V sold $800m worth of copies on its first day last September....
...In the 1919 US court case of Dodge v Ford, the Michigan court ruled that the purpose of a business is to return profits to shareholders....
...Titanfall battles are hosted in Microsoft’s cloud, called Azure....
...Known as Alice v CLS Bank, it deals with whether the computerised system used for settling a large proportion of the world’s foreign exchange transactions deserves patent protection....
...Titanfall is a sci-fi shooting game for Microsoft’s Xbox consoles in a much more traditional mould....
...Alice Corp, an Australian company, had claimed that its rights to a method for settling foreign exchange transactions had been breached....
...GTA V’s debut comes at the tail-end of the hardware cycle begun by Microsoft Xbox 360 in 2005 and Sony’s PlayStation 3 in 2006, creating a potential customer base of 250m gamers who own the consoles needed...
...Meanwhile Microsoft and Sony are optimistic about their new consoles. How to play this game? Put the console issue to one side....
...It is yet to be confirmed when the game will be available on Sony’s PlayStation 4 or Microsoft’s Xbox One, the two much-awaited consoles that are due to be launched in November....
...Frankly at this price it is a pick-up target for Facebook, Google or Microsoft,” he said. “But I don’t expect it to stay in the low 40s.”...
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