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Microsoft is adding its Family safety and Clipchamp video-editing apps to its ''inbox app'' list and has other new consumery Search features coming to Windows 11 as part of its latest test build.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is suspending shipments to Russia and Belarus due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, the company announced in a blog post (via Bloomberg ). It’s also barring access to Amazon Prime Video in Russia. Amazon’s suspending shipments to Russia and Belarus “Given the ongoing situation in Russia and Ukraine, we’ve taken additional actions in the region,” Amazon says in the post. “We’ve suspended shipment of retail products to customers based in Russia and Belarus.” Amazon is also halting any new orders of the open-world MMO New World , the only game title it sells in Russia. A slew of other game companies, like EA Games , CD Projekt Red , Take-Two, Ubisoft , Activision Blizzard, and Epic Games , have suspended sales in the country as well. On Tuesday, Amazon’s cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services, stopped accepting new signups in Russia and Belarus. In addition to Amazon, other major players like Apple , Microsoft , Samsung , Netflix , and PayPal have stopped doing business with Russia.

If you’ve been waiting for Microsoft to resurrect Windows Movie Maker, Clipchamp might be the next best thing. After acquiring Clipchamp last year, Microsoft is now bundling the app into Windows 11. It’s a browser-based app that supports trimming, splitting, transitions, and even has a screen recorder feature. Clipchamp includes a timeline, just like pro apps like Adobe Premiere Pro, and uses a combination of templates and a library of filters, transitions, stock media, and styles to let people create videos with multi-track audio support and user-friendly editing. Microsoft has integrated in an Azure-powered text-to-speech generator for creators to use voiceovers in 70 languages, and OneDrive is also integrated for cloud storage of files. Image: Microsoft Clipchamp is now part of Windows 11. Microsoft says Clipchamp is now an “inbox” app in Windows 11, which means it will be preinstalled on all new Windows 11 devices. The Microsoft Family app is also now an inbox app, with features like filters for Edge, screen time activity on Xbox, Windows, and Android, and family location tracking.

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Media mogul Barry Diller acknowledged that he made what turned out to be a lucrative investment in options to buy Activision Blizzard shares prior to Microsoft’s announcement that it would acquire the game giant for $68.7 billion. However, he told the Wall Street Journal that it was “simply a lucky bet.” The newspaper cites people familiar with the matter saying that federal prosecutors and securities regulators are investigating the options trades made by Diller, his stepson Alexander von Furstenberg and producer David Geffen. “We acted on no information of any kind from anyone,” Diller told the WSJ. “It is one… Read More

Manama, Mar. 9 (BNA): President of the University of Bahrain (UoB), Dr. Jawaher Shaheen Al-Mudhahki, received here today the General Manager of Microsoft Bahrain and Oman, Shaikh Saif bin Hilal Al-Hosni.

The trio purchased 4.12 million Activision Blizzard shares four days before Microsoft announced it would seek to acquire the company.

Pin games to Quick Resume. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is rolling out a new Xbox dashboard update that includes Quick Resume improvements, Xbox Share button remapping, and a new audio wizard. The March Xbox dashboard update now includes the ability to pin games to Quick Resume, so Xbox Series S / X owners can ensure up to two games will never drop out of the Quick Resume feature. Pinned games will only disappear from Quick Resume if they’re manually removed or there’s an update to the game. Quick Resume can support multiple games otherwise, and typically, games only fall out of the ability to resume instantly when you’ve launched more than 10. This can vary depending on how big each game is. Image: Microsoft Quick Resume now has pinned games support. M… Continue reading…

Barry Diller, David Geffen and Alex von Furstenberg made large bets on Activision Blizzard stock options before an announced purchase by Microsoft

The US government is investigating media moguls David Geffen, Barry Diller and his stepson Alexander von Furstenberg, over bets the trio made on Activision Blizzard ahead of its merger with Microsoft.

Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ADPT ) will be organized around two distinct business areas - Minimal Residual Disease (MRD) and Immune Medicine. Adaptive''s MRD business includes clonoSEQ diagnostic tests for clinicians and the clonoSEQ assay for pharmaceutical partners to support drug development and approvals. The Immune Medicine business includes research, diagnostic, and drug discovery products and services driven by T-cell mapping efforts in partnership with Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT ). The portfolio includes immunoSEQ, … Full story available on Benzinga.com

In the bid to accelerate the growth of 10,000 African startups and fast-track investment in their ecosystem over the next five years, Microsoft is establishing industry alliances and partnerships with venture capital investors that will facilitate access to $500 million in potential funding. Under the remit of its recently established Africa Transformation Office (ATO), the […] The post Microsoft to empower 10,000 African startups appeared first on Marketing Edge Magazine .

This new data centre in Hydrabad would help in delivering advanced cloud and data security solutions, which would help enterprises, education, startups, developers as well as government institutions.

Futures Surge After 4 Day Rout On Ukraine War Optimism; Cryptos Soar After two days of sheer market insanity, including Monday''s furious plunge and Tuesday''s rollercoaster session, U.S. equity futures jumped after 4 straight days of losses, following European equities higher, as Ukraine optimism won, at least initially, over fears about high inflation and global stagflation as a result of soaring commodity prices, sparking a furious Delta squeeze (as we will show shortly in a subsequent post). At 730am ET, Nasdaq 100 contracts were up 2.1% while S&P 500 futures gained 1.6%. The underlying benchmark fell for a fourth straight session on Tuesday to close at its lowest since June 2021. Dow futures rose 1.5%. A bond selloff extended as investor focus turned to upcoming central-bank rate decisions, while oil prices reversed a rally driven by President Joe Biden’s ban on fossil-fuel imports from Russia. . The dollar weakened for the first time in five days, as haven demand waned. Bitcoin soared more than 10% over $42,000 spurred by optimism about an impending U.S. overhaul of crypto oversight that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called “historic.” Investors are bracing for a global stagflationary shock from a commodity-price rally fueled by Russia’s isolation even as supply disruptions threaten to usher in a period of slower global growth.

The tech exodus from Russia won''t hit tech stock giants like Apple, Google and Microsoft in the wallet. But tension in China is a different story.