Microsoft appointed Hong Xiaowen as its senior vice president

Microsoft announced that it appointed Hong Xiaowen as its senior vice president. He was the chairman of Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D group and the dean of Microsoft Research Asia  reported on October 27.

Hong has been working in Microsoft for 20 years. He is the chief scientist of Microsoft as well as the expert for voice recognition. He joined Microsoft in 1995 as a senior researcher in its US headquarter institute. He worked as the vice dean of Microsoft Research Asia in 2004 and was promoted as its dean in 2007.

Mr Hong also worked as the chairman of Asian R& D group of Microsoft in 2014. In the meanwhile, he started and led STC from 2005 to 2007. The STC concerns the launch of Bing in China.

During his 8 years hard work as the dean of Microsoft Research Asia, he led his team to provide technical support for Bing, Office, Azure, PowerBI, Windows and Xbox.

Google takeovers Divshot of HTML5

It reports that Google will takeover development platform Divshot and it will be integrated to its subsidary iCloud service company Firebase. Divshot senior manager has confirmed the mentioned news through Firebase. In the meanwhile, it announced that Divshot service will be officially closed down on December 14, 2015.

"Look into the future, our team will make all concerted efforts to help Firebase Hosting to provide better experience for publishers", said Michael Bleigh, the engineer of Divshot.

Soon after this announcement, Divshot will make instructive documents of guiding the existing users to move to Firebase. In addition, Divshot announced Firebase's Command Line Interface for its users as well. Such interface offers inconvenience for the developers to use its local Superstatic database.

According to previous reports, Divshot has received venture capital at $1.8 million from some investors. There will be more measures executed to finish this acquisition. Please pay more attention if you are interested.