Tweet Microsoft’s Javier Soltero is now the corporate vice president for Cortana. Soltero was the co-founder of Acompli, which was acquired by Microsoft and became Outlook on mobile platforms. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Chialin Chang, president of smartphone and connected devices at HTC, has resigned from his post to start up his own business in artificial intelligence, which he says he is optimistic about. Read more… Neowin

Tweet It has been revealed by officials close to the French President that Telegram is the go-to app for discussing non-sensitive issues. It was used recently to arrange the First Lady’s trip to a zoo. Read more… Neowin

Tweet President Putin met with Ethereum creator, Vitalik Buterin at the SPIEF 2017 event in St. Petersburg, Russia, which took place between the 1st and 3rd of June. Details of the meeting are quite scarce. Read more… Neowin

Tweet As Smith emailed staff to reassure them over new US border control concerns, Microsoft’s CEO said that “as an immigrant” himself, he’d “experienced and seen the positive impact” of immigration. Read more… Neowin