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Microsoft 365 expands with Education version for schools and F1 for firstline workers, alongside new Windows 10 S devices from HP, Lenovo, and Fujitsu — At Ignite, its enterprise technology conference in Orlando today, Microsoft launched two new versions of its Microsoft 365 subscription: Education and F1 (for firstline workers).| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Teams is replacing Skype for Business to put more pressure on Slack — Microsoft Teams isn't even a year old, but it's about to replace Skype for Business. At Microsoft's Ignite conference in Orlando, Florida today, the software giant is revealing that it plans to kill off Skype for Business in favor of Microsoft Teams.
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SQL Server 2017 runs on Linux, including in Docker containers, adds support for Python, and graph processing for NoSQL-like functionality — Integration of Python for data science, graph processing for NoSQL-like functionality, and it runs on Linux as well as Windows.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft starts integrating LinkedIn's social graph with Office 365 products, showing contacts' information from LinkedIn within Office 365 — Last year, Microsoft bought LinkedIn for $26.2 billion, but even though the acquisition has long closed, Microsoft hasn't yet done much with all of the data it gets from the social network.
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Sources: on Nov. 19, 9 days after Zuckerberg downplayed fake news' role in election, Obama appealed to him to take threat of political disinformation seriously — Nine days after Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg dismissed as “crazy” the idea that fake news on his company's social network played … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
SAP to acquire identity management firm Gigya, sources say for $350M — SAP, the German enterprise software giant, today announced an acquisition to strengthen its hybris e-commerce division. It has acquired Gigya, a firm that helps online properties manage customer identities and profiles.
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CSO, PR Newswire, Silicon Valley Business …, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, Haaretz, Reuters, Globes Online, and IT ProPortal. Tweets: @stefanomainetti
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Intel launches 8th-gen Core desktop chips, ranging from 4-core Intel Core i3-8100 at $117 to the highest-end 6-core Core i7-8700K for $359 — Intel moved further ahead into its 8th-generation Core series with the launch of its mainstream desktop chips on Sunday night, including the 6-core/12-thread Core i7-8700K, aimed at gamers.
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Intel Newsroom, CNET, SiliconANGLE, Ars Technica, AnandTech, Business Insider, Engadget, SlashGear, and TechSpot
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iPhone 8 Plus camera review: Portrait Lighting, HDR in Portrait Mode, and Slow Sync are major improvements this year — khamagani! — (many greetings from rajasthan, india) — I'm writing to you from a small hotel room in India having just experienced a magical adventure in western India orchestrated by friends at Ker & Downey.
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China's coders increasingly use Shadowsocks, an open source proxy tool, to bypass the Great Firewall as government cracks down on VPNs — This summer Chinese authorities deepened a crackdown on virtual private networks (VPNs)—tools that help internet users inside the mainland access the open, uncensored web.| Anto Antony / Bloomberg: |
Amazon to buy 5% of Shoppers Stop for $27.6M, will create Amazon experience centers in Indian retailer's shops — Bezos' empire to buy shares in Mumbai-based Shoppers Stop — Shoppers Stop to host Amazon experience centers in stores — Amazon.com Inc.'s investment in retailer Shoppers Stop Ltd … | New York Times: |
Despite safety being part of Equifax's sales pitch, company's strategy of gathering as much personal data as possible amplified the consequences of the breach — Equifax's chief executive had a simple strategy when he joined more than a decade ago: Gather as much personal data as possible and find new ways to sell it.
Tweets: @harrysiegel, @davidenrich, and @nytimesbusiness
| Sam Shead / Business Insider: |
UK-based food delivery startup Deliveroo raises $385M led by Fidelity and T Rowe Price, now valued at $2B+ — Deliveroo has raised $385 million (£285 million) from investors in a huge funding round that values it at over $2 billion (£1.48 billion) and makes it one of the most valuable tech companies in the UK.
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