Microsoft subsidiaries

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LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search for jobs, and find potential clients. The site also enables its users to build and engage with their professional networks; access shared knowledge and insights, and find business opportunities. It offers LinkedIn mobile applications across various platforms and languages such as iOS, Android, Blackberry, Nokia Asha, and Windows Mobile; a public website that allows developers to integrate its content and services into their applications; and a set of embeddable widgets to allow web developers to include content from the company's network into their websites and applications. In addition, the company provides talent solutions, including LinkedIn Corporate Solutions that enables enterprises and professional organizations to find, contact, and hire qualified candidates; LinkedIn Jobs that allows enterprises and professional organizations to advertise job opportunities on the company's network; and Subscriptions which enables recruiters and hiring managers to find, contact, and manage potential candidates. It also offers LinkedIn Ads, a self-service platform that enables advertisers to build and target their advertisements at its members; Enterprise, a marketing solution to target larger advertisers that receive dedicated account management and additional marketing solutions; and Sponsored Updates that enables advertisers to share and amplify content marketing messages. Additionally, LinkedIn provides premium subscriptions for general professionals to manage their professional identities. LinkedIn was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States.

MSN is an ISP and web portal that provides online information, entertainment, and communication services worldwide. MSN was once a simple online service for Windows 95, an early experiment at interactive multimedia contents on the internet, and one of the most popular dial-up internet service providers. Since 1998, MSN has primarily been a popular web portal. Microsoft used the MSN brand name to promote numerous popular web-based services in the late 1990s, most notably MSN.com, a web portal for national news, financial coverage, sports stories, video, health and fitness information, entertainment news and celebrity gossip, green-focused content, career advice, recipes, and more; Hotmail, a free web-based email service; and Messenger, an instant messaging service before reorganizing many of them in 2005 under another brand name, Windows Live. Founded in 1995, MSN operates as a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation and is based in Redmond, Washington.

GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers/people to build software for open source and private projects in organizations. It designs and develops an online platform to allows users to store and share codes repositories with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. GitHub has a strategic partnership with International Business Machines Corporation. It was founded on February 29, 2008, by Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett, and Tom Preston-Werner, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California.

RiskIQ provides organizations the visibility and intelligence they need to secure their Enterprise Digital Footprint and map their Adversaries' infrastructure. RiskIQ products, powered by a proprietary virtual-user technology, threat analysis engine, and global proxy network, enable an organization to defend against threats targeting its websites, mobile applications, brands, customers, and employees. RiskIQ is used by eight of the 10 largest financial institutions in the U.S. and five of the nine leading Internet companies in the world. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Battery Ventures and Summit Partners. For more, visit www.riskiq.com.

StorSimple has developed an application-optimized hybrid storage solution for SharePoint, Exchange, Windows User Files, and Virtual Machines that delivers consistent storage performance at scale, significantly simplifies data protection, and reduces cost by up to 90 percent compared to traditional enterprise storage used with these applications. StorSimple is based in Silicon Valley and is funded by Redpoint Ventures and Index Ventures.

Alphonso is a TV data and measurement company, and the market leader in providing brands and agencies with real-time TV ad campaign measurement, closed-loop attribution for TV ads, and TV audience extension across digital devices. Its Alphonso TV Data Cloud services are used by hundreds of Fortune 500 brands and agencies in the U.S. With video AI technology embedded in tens of millions of smart TVs, TV chipsets, set-top boxes, and other connected devices, Alphonso understands what programming and advertising people watch on TV. Its SaaS offering, Alphonso Insights, delivers actionable TV measurement and closed-loop attribution with offline data in real-time, to help brands understand the true impact of TV advertising.

Yammer is an enterprise social network established to foster team collaboration, empower employees, and drive business transformation. It enables employees to collaborate in real time across departments, geographies, and business applications. It also helps them create groups to collaborate on projects and share and edit documents. The service of yammer.com can be accessed through the web, desktop and mobile devices including iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, Android, and Blackberry, enabling a “virtual office” that employees can plug into while on-the-go. Additionally, Yammer can be easily integrated with other systems such as Microsoft SharePoint, creating a social layer across all enterprise applications. Yammer has secured more than 7 million users, including employees from 85 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. Founded in 2008, Yammer is now a part of Microsoft.

Revolution Analytics (formerly REvolution Computing) was founded in 2007 to foster the R Community, as well as support the growing needs of commercial users. Its name derives from combining the letter "R" with the word "evolution." It speaks to the ongoing development of the R language from an open-source academic research tool into commercial applications for industrial use. Though its Revolution R products, the company aims to make the power of predictive analytics accessible to every type of user & budget. They provide free and premium software and services that bring high-performance, productivity and ease-of-use to R -- enabling statisticians and scientists to derive greater meaning from large sets of critical data in record time.

Bing is the intelligent search engine from Microsoft that helps people save time and money. Bing reaches half of the U.S. population, with over 8.8 billion monthly searches, powers search results on Yahoo to AOL to Amazon, and enables unique experiences including Cortana, the truly personal assistant. Connect to the people who matter to you through Bing Ads, the advertising platform that provides rich audience targeting capabilities and the tools you need to effortlessly deliver business results. Investments in machine learning and artificial intelligence are making search more pervasive, predictive and personal so you can build more meaningful connections with your customers. Bing Network. Intelligent search.

N-Trig is a startup that develops touch screens and pen styluses

Tellme provides voice recognition and instruction technology, fundamentally improving how people use the phone to get the information they need everyday. By combining Internet data and a voice interface, Tellme's services let people simply say what they want and get it. Some of the services running on Tellme's platform include business search on 411, information search on 1-800-555-TELL as well as customer service and ordering for companies like American Airlines, Merrill Lynch, and FedEx. Tellme powered billions of calls every year and is used by more than 40 month. Microsoft acquired Tellme in 2007, and Microsoft now uses Tellme's technology in Windows Phone's voice recognition, Bing voice search, Xbox voice recognition, and other Microsoft technologies.

Vexcel Corp. is a remote sensing company with headquarters in Boulder, Colorado. The company's legacy offerings to government and commercial markets include turnkey satellite ground systems, a range of remote sensing imagery processing products, and advanced radar processing and geospatial services. The company was acquired by Microsoft Corporation on May 3, 2006.

Voicebox is an acknowledged leader in Conversational AI, including Voice Recognition (VR), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), and AI services. In addition to our patented Conversational Voice Technology, we pioneered the Connected Device trend with our strengths in embedded, server, and hybrid operation, earning a spot on IEEE's list of World's Most Impactful technology. The Voicebox team comes from over 25 countries and possesses unequaled breadth and expertise. From our 2001 founding in Bellevue, WA, we have grown to include offices in Europe and Asia. For more information visit www.voicebox.com.

Fast Search & Transfer, Inc. provides enterprise search solutions for businesses and government organizations. It offers FAST Enterprise Search Platform that enables clients to access, retrieve, and analyze information. The company was incorporated in 1998 and is based in Needham, Massachusetts. Fast Search & Transfer, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Fast Search & Transfer ASA.

Livestation is an online platform that distributes live television and radio broadcasts over a data network. It is partnered with global live news channels to give its viewers access to quality live news coverage. Livestation can be accessed using any device, including personal computers, mobile phones, and televisions. It offers a full live streaming solution for broadcasters while providing advertisers a unique opportunity to target a global audience of engaged and informed viewers alongside premium live news brands from around the world. Livestation was launched in 2009 and is headquartered in London.

Mobile Data Labs, Inc. provides MileIQ, a mileage-tracking mobile application. The company's application captures, logs, and calculates miles that the user drives, as well as stores the drive log in cloud. It serves primarily independent contractors, consultants, real estate agents, and business owners. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Vlingo is a Virtual Assistant that turns your words into action by combining voice to text technology, natural language processing, and Vlingo's Intent Engine to understand the user's intent and take the appropriate action. Simply speak to your phone to connect with the people, businesses and activities that are important to you. The team behind the service has some significant experience in the speech recognition space. The two co-founders (Mike Phillips and John Nguyen) worked for SpeechWorks, which was acquired by ScanSoft, which then renamed itself Nuance. Nuance most recently paid $293 million for VoiceSignal, a company using speech recognition for mobile search in 21 languages.

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Navic's technology offers television networks tools that use real-time audience measurement data to optimize the delivery and placement of targeted video advertisements.

Jellyfish Online Marketing U.S. Ltd. is primarily engaged in preparing advertising (writing copy, artwork, graphics, and other creative work) and placing such advertising in periodicals, newspapers, radio and television, or other advertising media for clients on a contract or fee basis.

Flx Bio, Inc. is primarily engaged in commercial physical and biological research and development on a contract or fee basis.