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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft launches Microsoft Teams, its Slack competitor that comes with Office 365; app integrates with all Office programs, SharePoint, PowerBI, more — At an event in New York City today, Microsoft officially launched its Microsoft Teams competitor to Slack.
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| Kirk Koenigsbauer / Office Blogs: |
Microsoft Teams is available today in preview for Office 365 commercial customers in 181 countries, with general availability in Q1 2017 — Today's post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team. — Today, at an event in New York City …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says it has no plans for a free or consumer version of Teams; cheapest option for access is Office 365 Business Essentials at $5 per user per month — Microsoft today launched a preview of Microsoft Teams, an obvious Slack competitor (even Slack thinks so). The big difference?| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Phil Schiller says there have been more online orders for the new MacBook Pro than ever before, despite criticism from some users — In a wide-ranging interview with The Independent, Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller said the company has received more online orders for the new MacBook Pro …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
MacBook Pro 13" without Touch Bar review: brilliant display, enormous trackpad, but only having two Thunderbolt 3 ports will lead to pricey dongle headaches — More power, more portability, more dongles — If you're a fan of Apple laptops, I've got some good news and some bad news.
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Facebook Reports Third Quarter 2016 Results — Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2016. — “We had another good quarter,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO. “We're making progress putting video first across …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Uber streamlines app by grouping car types into a few categories, making pricing and ETA clearer, better predicting users' destinations before app loads, more — But it also added a lot of clutter — by Lauren Goode and Andrew J . — Uber is rolling out a major redesign of its app today — the most significant update since 2012.
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| Priya Anand / BuzzFeed: |
Uber rolls out Uber Feed to let users order food via UberEATS, play music via Pandora, share via Snapchat, get reviews via Yelp, and more from within its app — With a newly redesigned app, Uber hopes to make ride-hail a transportation lifestyle. — Uber already knows when and where its riders are traveling.
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Mobile and tablet devices, accounting for 51.3% of internet usage worldwide, exceeded the 48.7% by desktop, for the first time in October — - Increased traffic plus Google search rankings stress importance of mobile friendly websites — San Francisco, CA and Dublin, Ireland; 1st November … | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
LinkedIn launches Salary, a tool that taps into user data to chart earnings across the globe, available to users in the US, UK, and Canada — The portal collects and analyzes salaries across jobs globally, which users can then access to better understand the compensation landscape of their given field.
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| Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
Chipmaker Broadcom to buy network gear maker Brocade for $5.5B in cash, $12.75 a share, to expand its fiber channel and storage businesses — Chipmaker Broadcom Ltd (AVGO.O) said on Wednesday it would buy network gear maker Brocade Communications Systems Inc (BRCD.O) for $5.5 billion in cash … | Andy Weir / Neowin: |
LastPass expands cloud password storage on tablets, PCs, and smartphones to all users for free; the feature was previously only for premium users — As we increasingly depend on digital tools and cloud services for work and play, the need to effectively manage the security of those resources continues to grow.| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Prime members charged Amazon.com prices at Amazon's retail stores, while nonmembers must pay list price — Cashiers at Amazon's physical bookstores now ask each customer the same question: Are you a Prime member? — That's because Amazon recently implemented a new pricing structure …
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| Ina Fried / Recode: |
CMRA Apple Watch camera band adds a 2MP selfie cam and an 8MP shooter for $249, preorders start now at $199, ships in spring — The downside is the CMRA costs upward of $150 and won't be shipping until spring. — In building its smartwatch, Apple designed it without a camera … | Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Atlas Recall, a search engine for your digital footprint now in open beta, raises $20.7M from Microsoft, Nathan Myhrvold, and Aspect Ventures — Computers have perfect memories. So why is it so hard to find stuff on them? Probably because our own memories don't work the same way.
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GeekWire, WinBeta, Atlas Updates, Co.Design, Engadget, The Seattle Times, Laptop Mag and Motherboard. Thanks:@claresayas
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spotify acquires Preact, a customer acquisition, service, and retention company based in San Francisco; terms of the deal not disclosed — Spotify — the music streaming service with 40 million paying subscribers — has made an acquisition that it hopes will help it hold on to them …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Netatmo's security camera Presence uses deep learning to spot intruders, animals, and cars, launching for $300 in US on November 17 — Netatmo is launching Presence — a smart outdoor security camera that will send you an alert if someone is loitering around your house — in the U.S. market for $300.| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
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