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Microsoft Guns for Twilio's Business With Launch of Azure Communication Services

Nicholas Rossolillo, The Motley Fool
·3 min read
Microsoft Guns for Twilio's Business With Launch of Azure Communication Services

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is continuously upping its game in the public cloud arena, and recently announced the availability of Azure Communications Services. The new product is a library of APIs (an API is an application programming interface, a pre-defined operation that can be inserted into and executed by an app) for developers to embed communications capabilities into an organizations' operations or web and mobile apps -- everything from video to chat to traditional phone calls. Cloud-based communications are helping solve those problems, and the sprawling Microsoft Azure ecosystem is well-suited for the task.

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