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Microsoft will take $800 million charge on Cruise investment

Geekwire on MSN · 50m

Microsoft will take $800 million charge on Cruise investment as GM exits robotaxi business

Microsoft will take an $800 million charge on its investment in the Cruise robotaxi business after General Motors announced it would no longer fund the initiative as part of a shift in its autonomous driving strategy.

The Wall Street Journal on MSN · 1h

Microsoft to Incur $800 Million Charge Tied to Cruise Robotaxi Program

Microsoft said it will record an $800 million impairment charge tied to its minority investment in General Motor’s now-scrapped robotaxi program Cruise.

Microsoft expects $800 million impairment charge in Q2 2025 over General Motors' Cruise exit

Microsoft expects to record an impairment charge of around $800 million in the second quarter of fiscal year 2025 over General Motors' exit of the Cruise autonomous driving business, the tech giant said in a filing on Wednesday.

MarketWatch · 59m

Here’s how much of a hit Microsoft is taking on its investment in GM’s Cruise

Microsoft warned investors it will book an impairment charge in its fiscal second quarter related to its investment in GM’s Cruise robotaxi unit back in 2021.

Bloomberg on MSN · 1h

Microsoft Sees $800 Million Charge on Stake in GM’s Cruise

Microsoft Corp. plans to take an $800 million charge after General Motors Co. said it was shutting down its autonomous taxi initiative.

Microsoft shareholders reject call to invest in Bitcoin

Microsoft shareholders reject call to invest in Bitcoin, but company doesn’t entirely rule it out

Microsoft shareholders turned down a proposal calling on the company to consider diversifying its investments by including Bitcoin in the mix, but the company was actually more open-minded than it might seem.

Fox Business · 1d

Microsoft shareholders vote against company investing in bitcoin

Microsoft shareholders rejected a proposal that would've tasked the company's board of directors with considering investments in bitcoin as a means of diversifying its portfolio.

Business Insider · 1d

Microsoft shareholders reject a proposal for the tech giant to possibly invest in bitcoin

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor had pitched Microsoft's board on investing in bitcoin. Investors voted against the proposal on Thursday.

Microsoft Windows, iPhone

The Verge · 1h

Microsoft starts testing iPhone file sharing for Windows PCs

Microsoft has started testing some improvements to its Phone Link app for iPhone users. Windows Insiders can now try out a new way to share a file from an iPhone to a PC and vice versa, making the experience a little more like file sharing with an Android device.

Windows Central · 2h

Windows 11 PCs and iPhones are about to cozy up and simplify file sharing

Windows 11 will soon support file sharing with iOS through Phone Link. The feature is in testing now among Windows Insiders. Microsoft also shipped a Windows Insider build to the Canary Channel. Windows PCs and iPhones don't always get along,

Microsoft begins rolling out ability to sync an iPhone with PCs running Windows 10/11

Microsoft has announced that it’s beginning to gradually roll out the ability to seamlessly share files between an iPhone and Windows 11 or Windows 10 PC when they are connected via Phone Link and the Link to Windows app.

Google, OpenAI and Microsoft

Google Asks Feds to Kill Microsoft’s Cloud Hosting Deal With OpenAI

Case in point, Google has reportedly approached the FTC and asked the agency to end Microsoft’s exclusive deal with OpenAI to provide cloud hosting for ChatGPT. It argues the deal limits competition and potentially could impose higher costs on developers seeking to use ChatGPT APIs in their products.

Google asks FTC to break up Microsoft's cloud deal with OpenAI, the Information says

Google has asked the U.S. government to break up Microsoft's exclusive agreement to host OpenAI's technology on its cloud servers, the Information reported on Tuesday.

Business Insider · 22h

Google asks FTC to break up Microsoft’s cloud pact with OpenAI, Information says

Google has recently asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to block Microsoft’s (MSFT) exclusive deal to host

2h

Microsoft’s M12 invests another $22.5M into NeuBird, months after its $22M seed round

Gou Rao and Vinod Jayaraman founded NeuBird to automate IT site reliability operations tasks with generative AI. Having sold ...

1h

Microsoft wants to make the Xbox app the home of PC gaming

Microsoft is updating the Xbox app on Windows today with hundreds of PC games that weren’t previously available and a new ...

4hon MSN

Watch: Canadian man wins Microsoft Excel World Championships in Las Vegas

A financial modeling director from Canada was declared the spreadsheet champion of the world at the Microsoft Excel World ...

5h

Microsoft tests compact, native version of Windows Copilot app

Microsoft continues to tweak the Copilot app on Windows, hopefully that means more innovations are due in 2025.

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