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MICROSOFT taking own sweet time in CEO pick — APPLE discloses gov’t data requests — BITCOIN smashes record — TCP Port 0 mystery — ADOBE’S password disaster

November 6, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

TWITTER leaves $1.25B on table — ELOP trying to elope with MICROSOFT — Internet maintenance engineer UPRISING? — MILLENIAL’s guide to selfies at funerals

November 8, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

TWITTER goes public, SQUARE may follow — Yammer & co-authoring added to OFFICE — MICROSOFT makes $2B annually on Droid patents — FACEBOOK likes open source

November 7, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Microsoft Acquires Apiphany, An API Management Service To Integrate With Windows Azure

Microsoft has acquired Apiphany, an API management company that it will integrate with Windows Azure. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. A short post about the acquisition is on the Windows Azure blog, citing the increasing value of APIs and the new level of management required to expose APIS reliably, securely and at scale. In the post, Microsoft […]

AMAZON, still unprofitable, passes Microsoft’s headcount — MICROSOFT profit crushes it — King Chrome top browser — Last qtr: iPad 15M, Surface 1M — LINKEDIN Intro reads your email

October 25, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

MICROSOFT eyes Ford’s Mulallay, new app store — BALLMER cries, dances, screams — GOOGLE releases new mobile Search — Tired: Yachts, Wired: Submarines

September 27, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Microsoft sharpens Office 365 tool to slice and dice data

Microsoft has added features to Power BI for Office 365, a data analysis tool to complement Excel that the company hasn’t yet released in final form. The preview of Power BI for Office 365 now offers users the ability to mine data using natural language, question-and-answer-type queries. Tweet This Post

MICROSOFT answers Apple with, er, Surface 2 — BLACKBERRY bought for patent cudgel — FLIPBOARD approaches $1B valuation — BETAWORKS threatens VC model

September 24, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

APPLE answers Android with downmarket iPhone — MICROSOFT hands devs Win8.1 — HP DROPPED from Dow — BUSINESS INSIDER’s bigot CTO outs self

September 10, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC **Sponsored by Citrix** Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

NSA gets SWIFT — MICROSOFT and Nokia were on eve of WAR — GOOGLE dumps MySQL — EV WILLIAMS thinks big

September 16, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC **Sponsored by Citrix** Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post