Microsoft Ventures gives itself a new name as it reintroduces itself to enterprise startups — here's how it landed on 'M12' (MSFT)

The reason for the change: There was some confusion between a previous iteration of Microsoft Ventures and the current one. Microsoft sought a new name to make a clean break between old and new. From this day forth, Microsoft Ventures — the two-year-old venture capital arm of the $710 billion tech titan — will be known by the much shorter name of M12. …read more

Source:: Yahoo Finance