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Microsoft, under the leadership of its various CEOs, made significant mistakes in the mobile phone industry. The company’s co-founder Bill Gates once admitted that it was a big mistake to let Google’s Android beat them in the mobile market. The former CEO Steve Ballmer focused too much on their own mobile system and didn’t take Apple’s iPhone seriously enough. Now, the company’s CEO, Satya Nadella, has gone on record to admit that writing off the company’s mobile phone business was a mistake.

(Reuters) — European shares slipped on Wednesday as investors digested a slew of mixed earnings reports from the region, while weakness in energy firms on lower crude prices added to the declines.

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. The company has promised to go full force to meet AI demand, Reuters reported. The tech giant is integrating OpenAI's technology into its product catalog and search engine Bing.

Qualcomm's smartphone chips, as both Alphabet's Google and Meta expressed their intentions to leverage these advancements on Tuesday, as per the agency. This revelation follows a recent Reuters report indicating that Microsoft has urged Qualcomm, Nvidia, and Advanced Micro Devices to develop new chips capable of accommodating a range of innovative AI features in Windows, the world's most widely used PC operating system.

Microsoft has reported a 27% increase in profit for the July-September quarter compared to the same time last year

Also Read: Microsoft Q3 Results: Revenues rise 13% to $56.5 billion, beating analysts estimates By contrast, revenue from Microsoft's Intelligent Cloud unit, which houses the Azure cloud computing platform, grew to $24.3 billion, compared with analysts' estimate of $23.49 billion, LSEG data showed, Reuters reported. Azure revenue rose 29%, higher than a 26.2% growth estimate from market research firm Visible Alpha.

Alphabet's cloud business crawled to its slowest in at least 11 quarters, sending the company's stock down 5.7% after hours, even as sales at rival Microsoft's cloud unit boomed. The drop in Google's share price despite beating Wall Street estimates for profit and sales, shows how much investors want the company to deliver gains in artificial intelligence, and show the cloud business remains competitive against a more powerful Azure from Microsoft and Amazon.com's AWS. Fears of a slowing global economy have prompted companies to curb spending on cloud-related services, including expensive AI tools, which has slowed revenue growth at Google's cloud unit to 22.5% in the third quarter, from 28% in the prior three-month period. Google Cloud third-quarter revenue rose 22.5% to $8.41 billion, the slowest growth since at least the first quarter of 2021. The cloud unit reported a operating income of $266 million, compared with an operating loss of $440 million a year ago.

Investing.com — US stock futures were trading in a mixed fashion during Tuesday's evening deals, following gains among major benchmark averages as investors remained focused on fresh earnings results from tech giants Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG).

Sensex tanked 825.74 points, or 1.26%, to settle at 64,571.88, while the Nifty plunged 260.90 points, or 1.34%, to 19,281.75. Tensions over regional conflict in the Middle East, worries over more rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve for an extended period and mixed corporate earnings so far spooked markets. “We expect the market to remain volatile amid rise in global uncertainties while the stock specific action is likely to continue in the market amid a busy results season.

OpenAI, are yet to be launched. However, corporate buyers have shown much enthusiasm for AI solutions born out of collaboration with the ChatGPT creator. "The results indicated that artificial intelligence products are stimulating sales and already contributing to top and bottom-line growth," said Jesse Cohen, senior analyst at Investing.com.

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Investing.com — The Dow closed higher Tuesday as a slew of better-than-expected corporate earnings and steady Treasury yields lifted sentiment on the stocks ahead of the big tech earnings.  

Investing.com — Microsoft reported Tuesday fiscal first-quarter results that beat Wall Street estimates, as the tech giant's investment in artificial intelligence bolstered growth in its cloud business Azure.

Global bond markets rebounded, with the US 10-year yield sliding to 4.8%, amid growing speculation that the recent selloff was excessive. Nasdaq 100 index futures rose ahead of earnings from Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.

Investing.com — The S&P 500 rose Tuesday as investors digested a wave of quarterly corporate earnings, with Microsoft and Google set to kick off earnings for big tech.

Sentiment was a little more cheerful during Tuesday’s session, following Monday’s recovery in stock and bond markets, and the return of the selling in precious metals and oil markets. European indices and US futures were trading higher as yields dipped further lower after the US 10-year could not hold above the key 5% level for long on Monday.

By Kirsty Needham

New Delhi: Amid the global economic crisis, Hexaware Technologies, a global IT services provider, is seeing substantial growth prospects. In an interview with TechCircle, chief executive Srikrishna Ramakarthikeyan shares his views on using digital technologies for growing its business, besides outlining the company’s strategy for emerging technologies like generative artificial intelligence, and plans for future growth and acquisitions. Edited excerpts: Our philosophy is that a change in ownership does not impact how we operate as a company and what we do right.

The stock market rebounded from its longest slide in 2023 amid a raft of corporate earnings, with traders awaiting results from giants Microsoft Corp. and Google’s parent Alphabet Inc. after the close. Oil held near US$85 a barrel.