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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Office 2019, the successor to Office 2016, now generally available for Windows and Mac, with a feature list that's a subset of what Office 365 ProPlus users get — Microsoft is starting to roll out Office 2019, its on-premises Office suite for Windows and Mac, and will be delivering the Office 2019 servers within the coming weeks.
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The Verge, Thurrott.com, VentureBeat, Microsoft 365 Blog, Windows Central, and 9to5Mac
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft announces Windows Virtual Desktop, a new Azure-based service that provides a full virtualized multi-user Windows 10 experience — There are plenty of third-party solutions for running a Windows desktop in the cloud, but until now, Microsoft itself seemed hesitant to offer the same kind of user experience.
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Microsoft 365 Blog, BetaNews, TechSpot, Ars Technica, Tim Anderson's IT Writing, and Neowin
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft: Surface Hub 2S will be available in Q2 2019 with original Surface Hub software, can be updated to Surface Hub 2X in 2020 using an upgrade cartridge — Surface Hub 2S to launch next year, followed by Surface Hub 2X update in 2020 — Microsoft is unveiling hardware changes to its Surface Hub 2 today.
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Engadget, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Windows Central, VentureBeat, PCWorld, Thurrott.com, and GeekWire
| Michael Sheetz / CNBC: |
SiriusXM to acquire Pandora in a $3.5B all-stock deal — Satellite radio company SiriusXM is acquiring music streaming service Pandora in a $3.5 billion all-stock deal, the companies announced Monday. — Pandora shares rose 14.4 percent in premarket trading from Friday's close of $9.09 a share …
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MacRumors, Pandora, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Engadget, VentureBeat, AdExchanger, CNET, Recode, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, CNNMoney, Neowin, iMore, Cult of Mac, Softpedia News, GeekWire, Business Insider, Washington Post, Silicon Valley Business …, Investor's Business Daily, Fortune, Patently Apple, TechSpot, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @shiraovide, @nytimes, @claireatki, @pkafka, @readdanwrite, @eamonjavers, and @pkafka
| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Apple releases macOS 10.14 Mojave with Dark Mode, Desktop Stacks, security enhancements, a redesigned App Store, Home, Stocks, Voice Memos, and Apple News apps — As promised during September 12's Gather Round event in Cupertino, Apple today released macOS Mojave — aka macOS 10.14 — to the general public.
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| Simone Stolzoff / Quartz: |
Slack has acquired Astro, a productivity startup that makes tools to surface important information from your emails and calendar — There's a common understanding that there are two types of people in this world: Slack people and email people. In reality, most modern offices use both …
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Slack, The Next Web, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and Android Central
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Snap begins slow rollout of a new way to search for products on Amazon right from Snapchat, works by simply pointing camera at a physical product or barcode — Snap on Monday announced a new visual search tool for the company's Snapchat app in partnership with Amazon.
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Snap Inc., Thurrott.com, Engadget, VentureBeat, and Reuters. Tweets: @alexeheath. Thanks:@sal19
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft unveils AI for Humanitarian Action, a $40M five-year initiative to support devs making tools focusing on refugees, disaster response, and human rights — Microsoft today introduced the AI for Humanitarian Action initiative, a $40 million, 5-year plan to support developers interested …
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CNET, Microsoft on the Issues, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, and ZDNet
| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Yubico launches new YubiKey 5 Series 2FA keys, supports passwordless FIDO2 and NFC — Supporting FIDO2 — Yubico, the leading provider of hardware authentication security keys, today announced the launch of the YubiKey 5 Series, the industry's first multi-protocol security keys supporting FIDO2.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Roku says its streaming boxes, sticks, and TVs will gain Google Assistant support within the next few weeks letting users launch apps, control playback, more — And Spotify is coming back to the platform — This is one example of interoperability that I didn't expect to see anytime soon …
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TechCrunch, Engadget, Thurrott.com, BetaNews, XDA Developers, Android Police, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, CNET, Ars Technica, 9to5Toys, and Mashable
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
As part of a new strategic partnership with Apple, Salesforce will release a Salesforce Mobile SDK for iOS by end of 2018 and redesign its iOS app by early 2019 — Salesforce and Apple have announced a partnership “that brings together the number one customer relationship management platform and iOS.”
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9to5Mac, Salesforce.com, Reuters, Business Insider, Cult of Mac, GeekWire, VentureBeat, ZDNet, MacRumors, Neowin, PYMNTS.com, CNBC, Patently Apple, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Enterprise Times
Tweets: @benioff, @stephennellis, @benioff, @tim_cook, and @salesforce
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google announces several changes to its search product, Google Feed is rebranded as “Discover”, the homepage on mobile will now show a news feed, more — Google Feed is also getting an update, now it's called Discover — Google is announcing changes to its search product today … | Saumya Tewari / Livemint: |
Facebook names Ajit Mohan, the CEO of streaming service Hotstar, as the managing director and vice-president of Facebook India, to join early next year — Ajit Mohan will lead a senior leadership team at Facebook India, looking into strengthening the social media firm's relations with people, businesses and the government
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| Komal Gupta / Livemint: |
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The Next Web, Engadget, Mashable, Times of India, businesstoday.in, and NDTV Gadgets 360
Tweets: @sushantsinha, @roshini008, and @livemint
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Fall Detection feature in Apple Watch Series 4 is off by default unless you're over 65 years old, according to Apple support documentation — Apple Watch Series 4 has a new feature called Fall Detection, which uses the new next-generation gyroscope and accelerometer to detect a fall …
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CNET, AppleInsider, SlashGear, iLounge, iDownloadBlog.com, Neowin, and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @backlon
| Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
Former ProPublica reporters are starting The Markup, a news site to investigate big tech, with a $20M gift from Craigslist's Craig Newmark and other funding — The Markup, dedicated to investigating technology and its effect on society, will be led by two former ProPublica journalists.
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TechCrunch, Fortune, and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Tweets: @hamishmckenzie, @jameeljaffer, @mlcalderone, and @sulliview
| Rani Molla / Recode: |
Review of Chase checking accounts shows that earnings for drivers for services like Uber, Lyft, and Postmates dropped from $1,469/month in 2013 to $783 in 2017 — More people are working for ride-sharing and delivery companies but on average they're making less.| Microsoft: |
Microsoft, SAP, and Adobe announce an Open Data Initiative to bring data across all of their platforms into one package running on Azure — Industry leaders team up to help customers connect data across their organizations, find powerful insights and deliver intelligent services with AI
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GeekWire, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, MSPoweruser, Investor's Business Daily, Neowin, and On MSFT
| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Walmart says 17,000+ Oculus Go headsets will be used in its US stores by end of year to train its employees, in an expansion of a pre-existing program — Walmart said it is using the headsets to train within three key areas: new technology, compliance, and soft skills like empathy and customer service.| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News: |
Ian Rylett, co-founder of YouTube tween channel SevenAwesomeKids, arrested for allegedly molesting a minor; YouTube demonetized the channel but left it up — For weeks now, SevenAwesomeKids, part of one of YouTube's biggest and most active tween/teen girl channel networks, has been suspiciously dormant.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Apple has closed its acquisition of music recognition app Shazam and says it will soon become ad-free, in a deal sources say was for $400M — Last year, we broke the news that Apple was buying the music recognition startup and app Shazam for about $400 million, and nearly one year later, the deal has finally closed.
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Apple, The Next Web, The Verge, Engadget, Macworld, Digital Trends, ZDNet, BetaNews, Inquirer, VentureBeat, MacRumors, CNET, 9to5Mac, TechSpot, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @ingridlunden and @benbajarin
| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
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