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Three partners of Microsoft Dynamics Products, Acxiom, Compusoft and Affordable Business Solutions (ABS) formed an entity ‘ACA Global’ in an effort to strengthen their technological efforts in large deployment and also to expand geographical footprints. Claimed to be the only Microsoft Dynamics practice with a Pan-Indian presence, ACA Global has operations in Tier-2 Indian cities like Kochi, Coimbatore and Mangalore, in addition to the metros like NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad.

The 25th Annual Hyderabad Software Exporters Association Awards brought IT multinationals, medium enterprises and startups of the city on one platform. The day-long summit and awards was held with the theme “Design Intelligence” where Microsoft was adjudged as the top MNC IT exporter.

Speaking on Twitter to fans, Phil Spencer confirmed that the software attach rate for Xbox One is great, including for third party games.

April will probably be the very best month that Microsoft’s Games with Gold service has had yet. Over on the Xbox One, the two headlining titles include Telltale’s The Walking Dead Season 2, and Crytek’s Ryse: Son of Rome.

Speaking at the Advertising Week Europe conference in London this week, Grad Conn, General Manager and Chief Marketing Officer at Microsoft U.S.A., acknowledged that it is a “very disruptive time” in the marketing and technology industry. Further, he called on marketers to “be part of the future”.

LinkedIn plans to launch a section on its network dedicated to business news, seeking to draw users onto the service more frequently to read and talk about current events. LinkedIn is calling the section “Trending Storylines.” It will have a stream of links to outside news sources mixed with related posts written by LinkedIn users. “We think that people will start their day with this, to get the news they need,” Roth said

LinkedIn is putting a bigger price tag on its user data. Today (March 21) it launched a new subscription for its Sales Navigator product, used to contact prospective customers, for $1,600 per user annually.

Microsoft has introduced new software that allows users to make an easy switch from a Mac to Surface devices. The software called Mac to Surface Assistant helps in easy transition from macOS to Windows 10, if the need so arises.

Microsoft is looking to eradicate preventive blindness, through the Microsoft Intelligent Network for Eyecare (MINE) which will help redefine eyecare by bringing together the power of technology and knowledge of global experts. Anil Bhansali, Managing Director, Microsoft India (R&D), says, “This will include the rate of change of myopia in children, conditions that impact children’s eyesight, predictive outcomes of refractive surgery, optimal surgery parameters as well as ways to personalize a surgery and maximize its probability of success.”

Microsoft Corp and Adobe Systems Inc are joining to make their respective sales and marketing software products more potent competitors to Salesforce.com Inc and Oracle Corp offerings, the two firms said. On the eve of San Jose, California-based Adobe’s annual user conference, the company said that it will work with Microsoft to create a shared data format between Adobe’s marketing software suite, which the company is re-naming its Experience Cloud, and Microsoft’s sales software, called Dynamics, allowing the software systems to work together seamlessly.