This post is authored by Chirag Dhull, Product Marketing Manager for Data Platform & IoT at Microsoft. We were thrilled by the huge response to the first edition of our edX MOOC on Data Science and Machine Learning Essentials – over 37,000 students registered from 177 countries, and, during the …
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It’s a great time to be a data analyst. Businesses have the ability to collect and store more data than ever before. That means more opportunities for you to discover the insights that drive crucial decisions, cut costs, and generate revenue. These new possibilities present new challenges, too. You need …
Read More »Join the Global Skype-a-Thon, December 3-4, 2015
Celebrate learning without borders You and your students are invited to take part in an historic global event. Starting on December 3rd and going through December 4th, Microsoft’s Global Skype-a-Thon will attempt to travel a million virtual miles during the two day event! It’s an ambitious goal, and one that …
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With more than 150 million people around the world connected to a cause, Facebook is a global community of volunteers, donors and activists coming together to make the world a better place. People raise money for disaster relief, they search for missing children, and they bring attention to the issues …
Read More »Skype 6.11 for Android: Share and keep track of moments that matter
Sometimes the most precious memories are the everyday moments. And at Skype, we want to help people come together so they can share experiences wherever they are. Today, we’re excited to launch Skype 6.11 for Android, which brings new features that will help you share and keep those moments that …
Read More »Ace your Skype interview with tips straight from the source
Interviews are make or break moments for everyone. When they go well they leave you walking with a spring in your step, and when they go badly they make you wish you’d stayed in bed that day. Because more and more interviews are happening over Skype, and because we want …
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It’s the most important decision of the most important day, of any woman’s life. That once in a lifetime moment that simply has to be 100% perfect. Third & Loom will make all your wedding day dreams come true — in fact, whatever the occasion, they’ll help to create a …
Read More »Construction Giant Skanska Using Cloud As Foundation For Growth
Even though digital pioneers aren’t pounding on construction companies like they are in other industries, Swedish building giant Skanska knows it must go high tech in a big way—adopting smart sensors, cloud-based data analytics, green building design, robotics, and the like. “We’re really on the brink of doing what other …
Read More »Great Firewall rising: How China wages its war on the Internet
(CNN)In April, the police came for Li Gang. It was a visit he had been dreading for almost six months, since he began working on a tool to help Chinese Internet users get around the vast censorship apparatus known as the Great Firewall. Crowded inside his apartment in a northern …
Read More »IBM Works With The Weather Company To Track Earth’s Big Data Atmosphere
IBM IBM -0.34% and The Weather Company are working together to provide us with a future where we can 100% accurately predict what will happen above our heads a full three days into the future. Chairman and CEO of The Weather Company David Kenny has explained the shape of the …
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