Microsoft Corporation has breached the $2 trillion mark at NYSE

Popular tech giant Microsoft Corporation has now joined the exclusive $2 trillion club. The company's dominance in the cloud computing segment and enterprise software will continue to expand further even after the end of the Covid pandemic. Microsoft's shares sharply rose by 1.6 percent in NYSE, which propelled the company enough to join Apple Inc. to become the second company in history to have a market value of $2 trillion. Saudi Aramco also managed to breach the $2 trillion mark at the end of December 2019, but now the company is valued at $1.9 trillion.

Since the beginning of the Satya Nadella era at Microsoft, the focus was shifted towards cloud computing solutions. Microsoft is one of the companies which successfully evaded the recent antitrust regulators' wave, giving it the freedom to expand its product portfolio and acquisitions. Microsoft has clearly outperformed Apple and Amazon by gaining 19 percent so far. The immense growth is mainly due to the fact that investors are now rushing towards Microsoft due to long-term growth in investment and revenue. The area of focus also draws investors. Microsoft is engaged in various segments giving it an upper hand, and also, the company is well poised in the tech market.

 

 

Salesforce Raises Its Game by Reinventing New Modules for Hybrid Work

Many companies in recent times plan to continue remote or hybrid work into the future, but this raises new challenges for employee learning and development. Today, employees report fewer opportunities to develop their skills in remote work. Recent research conducted by Salesforce in cites shows that 59 percent of employees say they’ve had less access to workplace learning since the pandemic.

To overcome this and to improve employees’ skills Salesforce has traditionally offered its free training programs to mixed groups of their own employees as well as their customers’ employees. As a result, people looking for work in the Salesforce “ecosystem” could make useful contacts with its customers’ workforces. Salesforce recently has established a separate “Trailhead” unit to help employee’s training progression.

The product will also allow company’s employees to see their own Salesforce training record in a software platform called myTrailhead, and will allow the companies to add their own proprietary training to that platform. Salesforce’s new platform will make potential job candidates more widely visible, and there emerges a win-win situation among Salesforce, its developers, its technology partners, and also its customers.

 

Summer Olympics in Tokyo to allow spectators

In a recent announcement, the International Olympics Committee has stated that the Summer Olympics in Tokyo will include up to 10,000 Japanese spectators at each event, and the organizers will follow the required pandemic protocols for athletes from hard-hit countries. Officials said that foreign spectators wouldn't be permitted to travel to Japan to attend the Olympics.

The new guidelines released by the International Olympic Committee and Tokyo organizers said venues could be filled up to 50 percent capacity, with a maximum of 10,000 spectators at each event. "If the situation becomes very dire, we would have to hold the Games without spectators," Tokyo 2020 President Seiko Hashimoto said.

Officials hope that the restrictions will build confidence among Japan's skeptical public that the Games can be held safely even though the pandemic is not brought under control. Officials did not clarify whether that sanction meant athletes could be barred from future Olympics and the sanctions would apply for which violations and said they could not detail the size of potential fines. There will be a disciplinary committee that will be charged with weighing any violations and possible punishments.

 

 

Intel launches robust silicon and software for 5G wireless networks

Intel, an American multinational corporation and technology company has announced that its silicon chips and software are accelerating 5G wireless networks at the edge. Now, the chipmaker is launching new chips to further improve its position in virtual radio access networks (vRAN) and other 5G wireless technologies. The company has reported that by 2023, 75 percent of data will be created outside of the datacenter, at the edge in factories, hospitals, retail stores, and across cities.

Therefore, developers want to converge various capabilities at the edge, and Intel wants to be there with the right technology.IntelvRAN promises cloud-like agility and automation capabilities that can help optimize the RAN performance and ultimately improve the experience for users.Intel is also expanding its FPGA (field programmable gate array), for highly programmable chips.

The chipmaker is also adding a new FPGA with integrated cryptography acceleration that supports MACSec in wireless applications. This adds another layer of security to vRAN at the fronthaul, midhaul, and backhaul levels, that is designed for space-constrained systems on the edge and well-suited for both high-bandwidth 4G and 5G RAN.

 

General Motors expands its Electric Vehicle investments and plans to build more battery manufacturing capacity

General Motors, an American multinational corporation has stated that it will increase its EV investments to $35 billion through 2025.The automaker made an initial commitment in March 2020 to invest $20 billion including capital, engineering expenses, and other development costs. GM said that it plans to become carbon neutral by 2040. The company worked with the Environmental Defense Fund to develop a vision of an all-electric future.

GM has also outlined plans to transition to electric vehicles or other zero-emissions vehicle technologies. The automaker said at the time that it believed that the energy sector was well on its way to a decarbonized grid and that an all-electric future would be supported by renewable infrastructure and technology.

GM has also confirmed that it plans to launch its third-generation HYDROTEC fuel cells with greater power density and lower costs by mid-decadewith two-thirds available in North America. The company also said it would deliver 30 new EV models by 2025 globally. In addition, GM will add U.S. assembly capacity for EV SUVs, and the details will be available soon.