Microsoft Invests in Ride-Hailing Platform Grab
Yoolim Lee, Bloomberg
This seems like a win-win for both sides. Microsoft gets a customer for its in-house cloud services operation and Grab now has a global tech firm as a partner.
5 months ago
Yoolim Lee, Bloomberg
This seems like a win-win for both sides. Microsoft gets a customer for its in-house cloud services operation and Grab now has a global tech firm as a partner.
5 months ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
Microsoft thinks that voice-powered internet gives it a shot — via voice assistant Cortana — at upending today's travel search funnel, which is dominated by Google's search results. The theory's plausible, but Microsoft needs to move faster to win.
2 years ago
Dina Bass, Bloomberg
Microsoft has steep competition going up against Google Translate and despite its heavy investments consumers have yet to demonstrate they care about the company's artificial intelligence ambitions.
2 years ago
Microsoft + Skift
Explore with us where the travel industry is headed, technologically. The time has come to look at what the future holds for hospitality, and every travel vertical, as an industry that uses digital tools to better reach customers — and re-envisions itself along the way.
3 years ago
Microsoft + Skift
Explore with us where the travel industry is headed, technologically. The time has come to look at what the future holds for hospitality, and every travel vertical, as an industry that uses digital tools to better reach customers — and re-envisions itself along the way.
3 years ago
Rafat Ali, Skift
Two decades after the birth of online travel, more than two dozen founders and key players exclusively tell Skift how it all happened. This is a story of a history that changed the future of travel forever. Dig in, this will take a while.
3 years ago
Dan Peltier, Skift
We'll jump at the chance for automated expense reporting whenever we can and Microsoft's Cortana and Skype bots have potential to help travelers book trips. We just need to see whether travelers will trust bots as they've trusted their own booking capabilities in the past.
3 years ago
Greg Oates, Skift
The applications for tourism are a long way off, but Microsoft's HoloLens has the potential to impact the travel user experience by providing contextual information with immersive 3D holographic storytelling.
3 years ago
Dina Bass, Bloomberg
Uber will likely take the investment, and then the best talent it can from Microsoft.
4 years ago
Eric Newcomer, Bloomberg
Bing also uses Nokia's Here data, so Uber's pursuit of Nokia's business may not be over after all.
4 years ago
Dennis Schaal, Skift
Google and Microsoft are teaming up against Marriott, Hilton and the rest of the hotel industry over travelers' rights to independent Wi-Fi access when they stay at or visit a hotel.
4 years ago
Dennis Schaal, Skift
Whether Bing Travel/Farecast could have made it and competed just based on the flight prediction differentiator is open to debate, but Microsoft Bing never even gave it a try.
5 years ago