Microsoft Copilot App Merger Bets on a Super-App Reset
The Microsoft Copilot app merger is not a routine product tidy-up. It is, by the company’s own implicit admission, a course correction for one of the most heavily…
Funke Adeyemi spent a decade in corporate banking and fintech before moving to business journalism. She started in trade finance at a major UK bank, moved to a payments company scaling into African markets, and spent her last role leading partnerships at a cross-border remittance platform. She writes about business strategy, fintech, digital banking, and the corporate news that moves markets. She is interested in how companies actually make money rather than how they describe making money in investor presentations. Funke lives in South London. She reads earnings calls the way other people listen to podcasts, and finds them about as reliable.
The Microsoft Copilot app merger is not a routine product tidy-up. It is, by the company’s own implicit admission, a course correction for one of the most heavily…
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