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Amazon's capitalization reached USD 502.6 billion, the Financial Times writes.

Except Amazon, with a similar capitalization of over USD 500 billion are only Apple, Microsoft and Google. Since the beginning of 2017, Amazon's market value has increased by $ 146.3 billion.

Microsoft will continue to invest in retail sales operations in Turkey in order to establish direct contact with more local consumers, according to a Microsoft Turkey executive.      

Matej Potokar, General Manager, Microsoft

Matej Potokar, General Manager, Microsoft

Silicon Valley internet giants Google and Facebook have raked in over $100 billion in global advertising spending, a recent report says.

The two companies have grown their share of global ad revenue from about a tenth in 2012 to a fifth in 2016, according to an annual ranking presented by data and analysis agency Zenith.

Nearly two-thirds of the computers in Turkey are running on pirated software, a senior Microsoft executive said March 21, adding that it put devices at greater risk of attack.      

"Sixty-two percent of computer users in Turkey are using pirated software," Cavit Yantaç, the company's deputy general manager in Turkey, told state-run Anadolu Agency.      

A top Microsoft representative has expressed optimism about Turkey's economy, while underlining the importance of improving the institutional capability of institutions that use technology in the country amid a rapid rise in cybersecurity risks.

Microsoft unveiled a desktop personal computer that turns into a digital drafting table. “Surface Studio”, as the new device is called, is the company’s first desktop PC, and a reminder of Microsoft’s growing presence in the hardware side of the industry that it once left entirely to its partners.

BELGRADE - Yahoo last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter, Reuters reports.

Romania's high court of cassation and justice on Thursday jailed the former telecommunications minister, Gabriel Sandu, for two years for money laundering, abuse of office and bribery involving the lease of Microsoft IT licenses for schools.

Microsoft says its' new Windows 10 operating system is now running on more than 14 million computers, two days after the software was released as a free download.

That's a far cry from the company's goal of getting Windows 10 onto a billion devices within three years.