Sometimes a shape, as we see it, is more than just a group of connected lines. Universally, symbols make much more sense to people regardless of language barriers. One such example that has been around for quite long, is of the iconic symbol that has a vertical line in a circle – the On/Off power switch.

Microsoft recently acquired Cloudyn, a cloud monitoring software-as-a-service company for amount somewhere between $50 and $70 million.

Microsoft Garage has come up with one more offbeat innovation. Sports Performance Platform is an analytics system that aims to help teams track, improve and predict their players performance using machine learning and Surface technology.

The industry is going through noteworthy changes – move towards digital payments, hunt for cost cutting techniques, private equity groups and investors benefitting from low interest rates and cheap financing. The European market in specific is also undergoing a consolidation phase.

Most of the retailers are known to rent server capacity by companies such as Amazon Web Services, Alphabet Inc’s Google, Microsoft Corp and IBM. Walmart has spent five years and millions of dollars in creating six giant server farms, each bigger than 10 football fields in size.

Richard Browning grew up making model airplanes with his aeronautical engineer father.