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Microsoft Said to Be Adjusting Office-Teams Pricing to Avoid EU Antitrust Fine
Microsoft is mulling if it can widen the price difference between the software sold without the app and its Office product sold with Teams to avert a possible EU antitrust fine. The move comes five years after Salesforce-owned Slack complained to the European Commission about Microsoft's tying of Teams with Office.
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Microsoft Outlook Updated With Personalised, AI-Powered Dynamic Themes
Microsoft Outlook, the company’s native email client, was announced to receive an artificial intelligence (AI) feature on Thursday. The feature, dubbed Themes by Copilot is a dynamic theme generator which uses AI. The feature will allow users to add customised themes that update automatically based on the current real-world conditions. The featur...
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LinkedIn to Add Games to Its Platform That Will Rank Firms Based on Employees Scores: Report
LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned professional social media platform, is working on diversifying its offerings beyond job searches and business networking. The company is reportedly going to add games to the platform to increase user engagement. LinkedIn would be the latest in the line of several social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube that ha...
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Microsoft, Google and Meta Among Big Tech Firms Set to Face Overhaul Under New EU Tech Rules: Details
Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Apple, and ByteDance are some of the 22 firms that have been designated as "gatekeeper" services under the new EU Digital Markets Act (DMA). Once the EU labels a business a 'gatekeeper', it will need to make its service interoperate with rivals and let users decide which apps to pre-install on their devices. Here's ...
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Microsoft Teams Used by Russia-Linked Hackers to Target Firms With Phishing Campaign, Microsoft Says
Microsoft researchers on Monday said that Russia-linked hackers have conducted "highly targeted" social engineering attacks on "fewer than 40 unique global organisations" since late May. The hacking group's campaign seeks to steal login credentials from users by engaging with them as technical support staff on Microsoft Teams, according to the comp...
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LinkedIn Working on Video Advertising Product to Target Streaming Platform Users
LinkedIn said on Thursday it was working on a video advertising product that would allow marketers to target users of the professional networking site while they watch content on streaming services. This comes after LinkedIn introduced AI features to help advertisers write ad content, part of a strategy to expand its ads business
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LinkedIn Said to Cut Over 700 Jobs, Shut Down China Focussed InCareers App
LinkedIn, the social media network owned by Microsoft, that focuses on business professionals, said on Monday it would cut 716 jobs as demand wavers, while also shutting down its China-focused job application.
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LinkedIn To Cut Over 700 Jobs, Phase Out China App
LinkedIn, the social media network owned by Microsoft Corp that focuses on business professionals, said on Monday it would cut 716 jobs as demand wavers, while also shutting down its China-focused job application.
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Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen AI Model Announced, to Be Integrated With All Company Applications
Alibaba on Tuesday unveiled Tongyi Qianwen, an AI large language model similar to GPT that it plans to integrate into all of the company's business applications in the near future. It will first be integrated into DingTalk, Alibaba's workplace messaging app and can be used to summarise meeting notes, write emails and draft business proposals.
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OpenAI Makes ChatGPT Available for Companies to Integrate in Apps
OpenAI is making its ChatGPT tool available to companies to incorporate into their own apps as it seeks commercial uses for the wildly popular chatbot. The company, which introduced ChatGPT to the public in November, is now offering paid access for businesses and developers who want to use the software’s ability to answer questions and generate t...
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Google’s Search Business Doesn’t Have to Be Killed by AI Chatbots – Here’s the Ugly Workaround
Google lost a sizeable chuck of its market value when it's upcoming chatbot provided an incorrect answer during a promotion of the service, while Microsoft's shares rose after the company announced it would integrate technology from OpenAI into its Bing search engine, productivity apps, and Teams meeting software. Do chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT ...
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ChatGPT Maker OpenAI in Discussions to Sell Shares in Tender Offer Valuing Firm at $29 Billion: Report
OpenAI, the research firm that created ChatGPT, is in discussions for a tender offer with venture capital firms Thrive Capital and Founders Fund, according to a report. The company is reportedly in talks with the firms to sell shares from existing shareholders such as employees, in a tender offer that would value the firm at $29 billion (roughly Rs...
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Said to Take Accountability for Overstaffing Firm Ahead of Layoffs
Meta will begin laying off employees on Wednesday morning, company CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly told hundreds of executives on Tuesday. The chief executive of Meta was said to be downcast in Tuesday's meeting and said he was accountable for the company's missteps and his overoptimism about growth had led to overstaffing. Meta reported more than 8...
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Is the Metaverse Really the Future of Work?
Meta's vision of the metaverse includes people using the company's wearable technology for work, in addition to the company's main metaverse product, a virtual reality playground called Horizon Worlds. The Facebook parent firm is also working with Microsoft to make available virtual versions of the latter's business software, such as Office and Tea...
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Microsoft, Meta Partner to Persuade Businesses to Use VR; Windows Apps Coming to Meta Quest Headsets
Microsoft and Meta have teamed up to convince businesses to use more virtual reality (VR) technology, and the former will offer better integration of its applications with Meta's Quest devices. These include Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 apps, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and other Microsoft services and apps that will soon be supported on Meta's VR headset...
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Microsoft Said to Be Adjusting Office-Teams Pricing to Avoid EU Antitrust Fine
Microsoft is mulling if it can widen the price difference between the software sold without the app and its Office product sold with Teams to avert a possible EU antitrust fine. The move comes five years after Salesforce-owned Slack complained to the European Commission about Microsoft's tying of Teams with Office.
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Microsoft Outlook Updated With Personalised, AI-Powered Dynamic Themes
Microsoft Outlook, the company’s native email client, was announced to receive an artificial intelligence (AI) feature on Thursday. The feature, dubbed Themes by Copilot is a dynamic theme generator which uses AI. The feature will allow users to add customised themes that update automatically based on the current real-world conditions. The featur...
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LinkedIn to Add Games to Its Platform That Will Rank Firms Based on Employees Scores: Report
LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned professional social media platform, is working on diversifying its offerings beyond job searches and business networking. The company is reportedly going to add games to the platform to increase user engagement. LinkedIn would be the latest in the line of several social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube that ha...
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Microsoft, Google and Meta Among Big Tech Firms Set to Face Overhaul Under New EU Tech Rules: Details
Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Apple, and ByteDance are some of the 22 firms that have been designated as "gatekeeper" services under the new EU Digital Markets Act (DMA). Once the EU labels a business a 'gatekeeper', it will need to make its service interoperate with rivals and let users decide which apps to pre-install on their devices. Here's ...
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Microsoft Teams Used by Russia-Linked Hackers to Target Firms With Phishing Campaign, Microsoft Says
Microsoft researchers on Monday said that Russia-linked hackers have conducted "highly targeted" social engineering attacks on "fewer than 40 unique global organisations" since late May. The hacking group's campaign seeks to steal login credentials from users by engaging with them as technical support staff on Microsoft Teams, according to the comp...
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LinkedIn Working on Video Advertising Product to Target Streaming Platform Users
LinkedIn said on Thursday it was working on a video advertising product that would allow marketers to target users of the professional networking site while they watch content on streaming services. This comes after LinkedIn introduced AI features to help advertisers write ad content, part of a strategy to expand its ads business
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LinkedIn Said to Cut Over 700 Jobs, Shut Down China Focussed InCareers App
LinkedIn, the social media network owned by Microsoft, that focuses on business professionals, said on Monday it would cut 716 jobs as demand wavers, while also shutting down its China-focused job application.
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LinkedIn To Cut Over 700 Jobs, Phase Out China App
LinkedIn, the social media network owned by Microsoft Corp that focuses on business professionals, said on Monday it would cut 716 jobs as demand wavers, while also shutting down its China-focused job application.
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Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen AI Model Announced, to Be Integrated With All Company Applications
Alibaba on Tuesday unveiled Tongyi Qianwen, an AI large language model similar to GPT that it plans to integrate into all of the company's business applications in the near future. It will first be integrated into DingTalk, Alibaba's workplace messaging app and can be used to summarise meeting notes, write emails and draft business proposals.
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OpenAI Makes ChatGPT Available for Companies to Integrate in Apps
OpenAI is making its ChatGPT tool available to companies to incorporate into their own apps as it seeks commercial uses for the wildly popular chatbot. The company, which introduced ChatGPT to the public in November, is now offering paid access for businesses and developers who want to use the software’s ability to answer questions and generate t...
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Google’s Search Business Doesn’t Have to Be Killed by AI Chatbots – Here’s the Ugly Workaround
Google lost a sizeable chuck of its market value when it's upcoming chatbot provided an incorrect answer during a promotion of the service, while Microsoft's shares rose after the company announced it would integrate technology from OpenAI into its Bing search engine, productivity apps, and Teams meeting software. Do chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT ...
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ChatGPT Maker OpenAI in Discussions to Sell Shares in Tender Offer Valuing Firm at $29 Billion: Report
OpenAI, the research firm that created ChatGPT, is in discussions for a tender offer with venture capital firms Thrive Capital and Founders Fund, according to a report. The company is reportedly in talks with the firms to sell shares from existing shareholders such as employees, in a tender offer that would value the firm at $29 billion (roughly Rs...
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Said to Take Accountability for Overstaffing Firm Ahead of Layoffs
Meta will begin laying off employees on Wednesday morning, company CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly told hundreds of executives on Tuesday. The chief executive of Meta was said to be downcast in Tuesday's meeting and said he was accountable for the company's missteps and his overoptimism about growth had led to overstaffing. Meta reported more than 8...
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Is the Metaverse Really the Future of Work?
Meta's vision of the metaverse includes people using the company's wearable technology for work, in addition to the company's main metaverse product, a virtual reality playground called Horizon Worlds. The Facebook parent firm is also working with Microsoft to make available virtual versions of the latter's business software, such as Office and Tea...
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Microsoft, Meta Partner to Persuade Businesses to Use VR; Windows Apps Coming to Meta Quest Headsets
Microsoft and Meta have teamed up to convince businesses to use more virtual reality (VR) technology, and the former will offer better integration of its applications with Meta's Quest devices. These include Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 apps, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and other Microsoft services and apps that will soon be supported on Meta's VR headset...
