An email sent by Satya Nadella, Senior Vice President, Research and Development at Microsoft's Online Services Division, shed more light on Kumo, one of the firm's most exciting projects in 2009. Nadella sent an email to...

Microsoft might be considering using a few hundred millions dollars it did not spend on the failed Yahoo acquisition to rebrand its Live search to Kumo, a Japanese word for "Spider" or "Cloud". Kumo.com, as well as dozens of...