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Industry-specific vertical cloud offerings are not its strong suit. The tech giant would rather build what its customers want.

In April 2020, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella famously said, “We’ve seen two years’ worth of digital transformation in two months”, while delivering the company’s first quarterly earnings in the era of COVID-19. Mind you, the pandemic had just started and lockdowns across the world were forcing businesses to digitize their processes and operations, as well as their engagement channels with customers.
Through the past two years, we’ve seen most technology service providers echo the sentiment. Ditto when I spoke last week to Vaishali Kasture, head of enterprise, mid-market and global businesses at Amazon Web Services India.
Kasture said that …
India’s leading tech hardware distribution company is making the most of the unprecedented rise in global prices of laptops and other tech hardware. There’s just one problem.
The sovereign wealth fund’s big bet on the Indian eyewear company, Microsoft’s AI win in the Emirates and other updates from the week.
Once hailed as a climate fintech innovator, Aspiration Partners’s collapse is shaking trust in carbon offsets and ESG startups.