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| 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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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says Teams is now used by 329,000 organizations, up from 200,000 in March of this year — At Microsoft's Ignite enterprise technology conference this week in Orlando, Florida, the company announced that Microsoft Teams is now used by 329,000 organizations.| 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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Microsoft 365 Blog, The Verge, Thurrott.com, Computerworld, Ars Technica, BleepingComputer, Neowin, TechSpot, PCWorld, VentureBeat, gHacks Technology News, Windows Central, On MSFT, Cult of Mac, and 9to5Mac
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| 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 …
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: Instagram's co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have resigned and plan to leave the company in the coming weeks — SAN FRANCISCO — Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the co-founders of the photo-sharing app Instagram, have resigned and plan to leave the company in coming weeks …
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Apple releases macOS 10.14 Mojave with Dark Mode, 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.| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snap begins slow rollout of a new way to search for products on Amazon right from Snapchat, which works by pointing camera at a physical product or barcode — See, snap, sale. In a rare partnership for Amazon, the commerce giant will help Snapchat challenge Instagram and Pinterest for social shopping supremacy.
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| 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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Tweets: @brianstelter, @shiraovide, @nytimes, @claireatki, @levynews, @pkafka, @readdanwrite, @eamonjavers, and @pkafka
| Jane Mayer / New Yorker: |
New book about online activity in the 2016 US presidential election argues that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and trolls were decisive in changing outcome — A meticulous analysis of online activity during the 2016 campaign makes a powerful case that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and trolls were decisive.
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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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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Kuo: iPhone XS Max far outselling iPhone XS, with 256GB most popular, 512GB is subject to shortages; Apple Watch Series 4 demand is “much better than expected” — In a research note obtained by MacRumors today, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has provided launch-weekend takeaways for the iPhone XS …
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Tweets: @macrumors, @neilcybart, and @navalang
| 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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Apple, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, CNBC, Business Insider, Neowin, Enterprise Times, GeekWire, VentureBeat, ZDNet, MacDailyNews, PYMNTS.com, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Patently Apple
Tweets: @benioff, @salesforce, @tim_cook, @benioff, and @stephennellis
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Zoho says its domain registrar, TierraNet, pulled its service offline for a few hours after it received phishing complaints, is now looking for a new registrar — Zoho.com was pulled offline on Monday after the company's domain registrar received phishing complaints, the company's chief executive said.
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ZDNet, BleepingComputer, and The Register
Tweets: @zoho, @mjg59, @zackwhittaker, and @troyhunt
| 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 Verge, Engadget, The Next Web, Digital Trends, Fortune, Inquirer, Forbes, MacRumors, TechSpot, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, BetaNews, Macworld, Android Police, and CNET
Tweets: @ingridlunden and @benbajarin
| 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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Engadget, TechCrunch, AndroidGuys, BetaNews, Thurrott.com, XDA Developers, Android Police, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, 9to5Toys, CNET, Mashable, TechHive, and Ars Technica
| 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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The Register, CNET, The AI Blog, Microsoft on the Issues, Engadget, and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @microsoft
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
After working with IBM for over a year on a food safety blockchain solution, Walmart says it's pushing produce suppliers to use blockchain by September 2019 — Walmart has been working with IBM on a food safety blockchain solution and today it announced it's requiring that all suppliers …
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news.walmart.com, New York Times, BuzzFeed News, Engadget, CoinDesk, Fortune, Adweek, CNET, and Database Trends …. Tweets: @n_shields_12
| 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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