SALT LAKE CITY, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The winners of the 2022 Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) and the Adobe Certified Professional World Championship have been announced by Certiport, the leading provider of performance-based IT certification exams that accelerate academic and career opportunities for learners. In its 20th year, the Microsoft Office Specialist competition attracted [...]
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Kdan Mobile Software Ltd., an international SaaS company, announced a series of upcoming collaboration projects with Microsoft. Kdan’s e-signature platform, DottedSign, now integrates with Microsoft Teams. Future efforts will continue to make Kdan’s software solutions available for users of Microsoft’s platforms. “We share the same core values [...]
LAGOS, Nigeria, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — As part of its commitment to empowering more Nigerians, stimulating economic activities, and widening the broadband envelope in Africa with affordable broadband connectivity, West Africa’s pioneer solar-based internet service provider, Tizeti, has partnered with Microsoft Corp. to roll out high-speed Airband internet infrastructure in Oyo State. With forty [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court has ordered tax authorities to refund Samsung Electronics Co. 11.3 billion won (US$9.3 million) in undue corporate taxes from a former patent deal with U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp., court officials said Sunday. Samsung filed the complaint against local tax officials, who purported that the South [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a retrial of a case launched by U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. seeking a refund of 634 billion won (US$530 million) in purportedly undue withholding taxes paid in South Korea. The top court sent the case back to the appeals court in Suwon, south of [...]
SINGAPORE, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) - The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and Microsoft launched the APAC Leaders Digital Alliance today. Themed Digital for Growth: Harnessing the Power of Data for National Recovery, this first meeting included policymakers from Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Heavy Industries Co. said Monday it has signed a deal with Microsoft Korea to cooperate on the digitalization of its shipyard. Samsung Heavy said it plans to build up a collaboration system among each shipbuilding sector in its shipyard by using cloud computing service Azure, artificial intelligence, group [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong has met with the chiefs of Google and Microsoft to discuss future cooperation in chips, software and others, Samsung officials said Tuesday. The meetings earlier this week with Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella came as the world’s largest [...]
SINGAPORE, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Following growth in MAR citizenship license sales, TES has won the Microsoft Authorized Refurbisher (MAR) Partner Award for Citizenship & Philanthropy. The award recognizes TES as a MAR partner with positive year-on-year growth in MAR licenses, specifically in the citizenship segment. TES’s programs have helped to support philanthropy, charitable [...]
SINGAPORE, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) - Microsoft and 13 companies across nine Asia Pacific countries today launched Code; Without Barriers to help close the gender gap in the region’s fast-growing cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technology sectors. The program provides a platform to enable female developers, coders, and other technical talent to contribute towards inclusive economic [...]