Microsoft’s recent shareholder meeting about cryptocurrency adoption in corporate finance. A request to allocate 1% of Microsoft’s total assets to Bitcoin (BTC) as a hedge against inflation received a 0.55% approval. Which shows shareholders skepticism about digital assets though they have their own. The Bitcoin Proposal The National Center for
As investors step gingerly into December expecting a modest price dip, the crypto market has held on to its bull run so far. In addition, it has also wavered off the weekend slump with fresh activity in the past day. On the regulatory end, the SEC has filed a new
Microsoft plans to assess and incorporate Bitcoin into its balance sheet. This decision aligns with the shareholders preparing to vote on a proposal in December, coinciding with an upcoming presentation by Michael Saylor, Executive Chairman of MicroStrategy, to Microsoft’s board of directors. During a November 19 X Spaces session hosted
Microsoft shareholders will soon decide whether the company should publicly assess the potential of adding Bitcoin to its balance sheet. An October 24 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reveals the proposal, named “Assessment of Investing in Bitcoin,” will be presented for a vote on December 10.
Reversing its earlier decision to fire Sam Altman, OpenAI rehired him two days after Microsoft appointed him to head a new squad focused on advanced artificial intelligence research. The news that Altman will be returning to OpenAI as CEO was revealed on November 22. In a formal tweet, the corporation
When Minecraft announced in July 2022 that it would prohibit NFTs on player-run servers, it sent shockwaves across the Web3 community. However, that intended action has not yet taken place, albeit it is still on the horizon about a year later. In a blog post published last summer, Mojang, a
Microsoft has inked a contract with CoreWeave, a cloud computing infrastructure provider and former Ethereum miner. This is to power Microsoft’s AI-driven services. CNBC reported on June 1 that, based on information from “people with knowledge of the matter,” Microsoft might spend billions of dollars on the transaction with CoreWeave
Digital Asset, a renowned leader in blockchain solutions, has made a groundbreaking announcement in collaboration with Goldman Sachs, Microsoft and others with its plans to unveil a cutting-edge privacy-enabled blockchain network explicitly tailored for institutional clients. This highly anticipated development promises to revolutionize blockchain by providing a decentralized infrastructure that
Grabbing the tech world’s focus, Elon Musk hints at a “lawsuit time” with Microsoft against the “illegal” exploitation of Twitter’s data for equipping its AI model. This threat arrives just in time after the announcement of Microsoft abandoning Twitter services on its advertising platform. Microsoft denied paying the high API
A Web3 wallet that supports cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) is apparently in the works for integration into Microsoft’s Edge browser. Software documenter and sometimes information leaker Albacore posted what seem to be early pictures of the company’s new Web3 wallet’s user interface (UI) on Twitter on March 17. Albacore
