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Jeff Bezos is still the richest person in the world, even after losing $10 billion in one year. The Amazon founder held onto the top spot in the final day of the 2019 Bloomberg Billionaire Index with an estimated net worth of $115 billion. He’s trailed closely by Microsoft founder …

Minecraft will be keeping its block-based look for the foreseeable future as plans to update its graphics are canceled. In a statement Minecraft developer Mojang said it had ended development on what was known as the Super Duper graphics pack for the game. The pack would have given the game …

Five global technology companies have pledged to limit terrorist material online. Facebook, Amazon, Google, Twitter, and Microsoft will develop shared tools to detect and remove terrorist or extremist content among other measures. The pledge was made at a Paris summit, which was called after the terror attack in Christchurch, New …

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd beat fourth-quarter revenue forecasts on Wednesday, thanks to growth in its core business and its diversification into cloud computing and other services. Alibaba has invested in new business lines such as cloud computing as a boom in its core e-commerce has peaked and …

Hackers had access to Hotmail, MSN and Outlook emails from a large number of accounts for two months, Microsoft has revealed. The technology giant confirmed that email accounts of non-corporate users were breached, with the contents of around 6 percent of emails exposed by cybercriminals exploiting a customer support portal. …

Tech giant Microsoft said Wednesday it had detected hacker “attacks” ahead of European Parliament and national elections in the EU, in a warning to civil society groups, politicians and campaigns. The firm said a group it calls Strontium was behind the attacks, known to security firms and government agencies as …