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Technology giant Microsoft announced Wednesday it will create 36,000 jobs in Qatar to boost the Gulf state's efforts to move away from reliance on its oil and gas industry.    

Created with support from the Qatar government, the new cloud data centre will be one of the US firm's biggest international projects.    

Netflix will work with Microsoft to launch a cheaper subscription plan that includes advertisements, the firms said have said, as the streaming giant fights to attract customers.

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder laments the direction the world is going and makes big promises to change the game

Its inclusion in the Release Preview indicates Microsoft is ready to bring the alert to a completed software update in the near future

Microsoft beat market expectations on Jan. 25 with strong quarterly performance in cloud computing and software, still benefitting from the pandemic's online shifting of work, play, shopping and learning.

After Microsoft announced it would spend tens of billions of dollars to buy a video game company, World Bank President David Malpass on Jan. 19 drew a contrast between the deal and the amount of money rich nations have pledged to help poor countries facing higher debt loads.

Microsoft's $69 billion deal to buy video game powerhouse Activision Blizzard is expected to win out with regulators despite vows in Europe and the United States to rein in tech titans.

Female employees make up between 29 percent (Microsoft) and 45 percent (Amazon) of the total workforce at America’s largest tech companies

Microsoft has won a Pentagon contract for augmented reality headgear for soldiers worth $21.88 billion over the next decade, the company and the U.S. military announced on March 31.

The headsets, based on commercially available HoloLens, will make soldiers safer and more effective, according to Microsoft technical fellow Alex Kipman.

Microsoft only entered the console market in 2001