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An investment firm run by Bill Gates has put down $80 million to develop a planned community in Arizona, the community will integrate technology and high-speed data into its "smart city" infrastructure.

Microsoft has teamed with SAP Ariba and Intrigo Systems to create a scalable, modern cloud-based platform to support the efficient, cost effective manufacturing of its most popular products, including the Xbox and Surface.

Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods makes the e-commerce giant a real player in the grocery space and it also just snapped up a major client for Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, which rivals Amazon Web Services.

If you’re looking for a holistic computing environment that lets on-premises resources and the cloud smoothly work together, provides a unified approach to management, and allows a single identity everywhere, you’re looking for the Microsoft hybrid cloud.

In just 12 weeks, Whole Foods Market rolled out Azure Active Directory Premium to all 91,000 employees, who use it to gain single sign-on to more than 30 SaaS applications.

With Microsoft’s cloud computing services and Azure platform, Maersk has a powerful set of tools for turning its vast operational and commercial data into more efficient operations and better products and services for customers.

While much transportation trade press attention has been given to the predicted purchase of Hamburg Sud by Maersk, the Danish mega carrier has been quietly negotiating a deal with another legendary giant in the information technology sector.

There are more options for purchasing Cloud-based supply chain software applications than ever. The key is realizing the value and savings promised by Cloud vendors.

Bloomberg Technology's Emily Chang sits down with former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in Stanford, California, to discuss the U.S. election, Bill Gates, software, leadership, and his move from the boardroom to the basketball court as the current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers.

As the lines between the large enterprise resource planning (ERP) providers and best-of-breed supply chain management applications continue to blur, the ERPs are now moving to create holistic, end-to-end “hubs” that incorporate multiple trading partners, providers and even customers. State of ERP 2016, Enterprise Resource Planning update 2016,

Microsoft isn't saying exactly what it will use its LinkedIn acquisition for, but it's easy to imagine it being used as a key way to boost the company's social networking presence.

The cable, called "MAREA" will start with hubs connecting Northern Virginia to Bilbao, Spain, and be capable of 160 terabits per second of bandwidth and will stretch more than 4,100 miles of ocean in a submarine cable system.

Drivers of late model BMWs can now get smartphone and Apple Watch alerts via Microsoft's Azure cloud to leave early due to traffic or walking directions to a destination after they've parked their cars.

In an effort to gain momentum before the Paris climate talks this December, the Obama Administration has rallied some of the largest companies in the nation to commit billions of dollars to slash their environmental footprints to help combat climate change.

A recent post on BusinessInsider.com, coined the phrase “American Industrial Renaissance,” as a way to describe the growth taking place within the U.S. manufacturing sector.