It’s been less than six months since Adobe acquired commerce platform Magento for $1.68 billion and today, at Magento’s annual conference, the company announced the first set of integrations that bring the analytics and personalization features of Adobe’s Experience Cloud to Magento’s Commerce Cloud. In many ways, the acquisition of Magento helps Adobe close the […]
View More After its acquisition, Magento starts integrating Adobe’s personalization and analytics toolsCategory: cloud applications
Google Slides gets real-time automated captions
Google is adding an interesting new feature to its Slides presentation tool today that allows you to enable real-time automated captions to your live presentations. That’s a great feature for those who are hard of hearing or deaf, as well as those who understand better when they can read instead of listen. The new feature […]
View More Google Slides gets real-time automated captionsTalkdesk nabs $100M at more than $1B valuation for its smart call centers
Talkdesk, the provider of cloud-based contact center software, has raised $100 million in new funding from Viking Global Investors and DFJ.
View More Talkdesk nabs $100M at more than $1B valuation for its smart call centersThe Freewrite Traveler offers distraction-free writing for the road
If you’ve ever tried to write something long – a thesis, a book, or a manifesto outlining your disappointment in the modern technocracy and your plan to foment violent revolution – you know that distractions can slow you down or even stop the creative process. That’s why the folks at Astrohaus created the Freewrite, a […]
View More The Freewrite Traveler offers distraction-free writing for the roadProtesters call on Salesforce to end contract with border patrol agency
A dozen or so people accompanied by a 14-foot, 800-pound cage gathered in downtown San Francisco Tuesday morning to protest Salesforce’s contract with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), the agency within the Department of Homeland Security responsible for enforcing the Trump Administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy. Today is the first day of Dreamforce, Salesforce’s annual user conference that […]
View More Protesters call on Salesforce to end contract with border patrol agencyWeTransfer is getting weird…
What do you do if you’re a European startup competing against the likes of Box and Dropbox, and are looking to make a splash in international markets like the U.S.? Well, if you’re the Dutch startup WeTransfer (which raised a cool $25 million about three years ago to take the U.S. market by storm), you […]
View More WeTransfer is getting weird…Google Go search app for emerging markets can now read out website content
Google has lit the news canon at its annual India event which takes place in New Delhi today. The company just introduced a subtle new AI-powered feature for its Google Go search app: website reading. You can bet this is the first of many product announcements to come out today. The U.S. firm introduced Google Go […]
View More Google Go search app for emerging markets can now read out website contentGoogle’s G Suite apps and Calendar are getting Gmail’s side panels
One of the best features of the new Gmail is its quick-access side panel with easy access to Google Calendar, Tasks, Keep and your Gmail extensions. Now, Google is bringing this same functionality to Google Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drawings, too. In Google Calendar, you’ll be able to quickly access Keep and Tasks, while […]
View More Google’s G Suite apps and Calendar are getting Gmail’s side panelsSalesforce promotes COO Keith Block to co-CEO alongside founder Marc Benioff
Salesforce is moving to a two CEO model after it promoted executive Keith Block, who was most recently COO, to the position of co-CEO. Block will work alongside Salesforce’s flamboyant founder, chairman and CEO (now co-CEO) Marc Benioff, with both reporting directly to the company’s board. Block joined Salesforce five years ago after spending 25 […]
View More Salesforce promotes COO Keith Block to co-CEO alongside founder Marc BenioffG Suite now lets businesses choose whether their data is stored in the US or Europe
Data sovereignty is a major issue for many major companies, especially in Europe. So far, Google’s G Suite, which includes products like Gmail, Google Docs and Sheets, didn’t give users any control over where their data was stored at rest, but that’s changing today. As the company announced at its Cloud Next conference in San […]
View More G Suite now lets businesses choose whether their data is stored in the US or EuropeGoogle makes it easier for G Suite admins to investigate security breaches
Google is announcing a fair number of updates to G Suite at its Next conference today, most of which focus on the user experience. In addition to those, though, the company also launched a new security investigation tool for admins that augments the existing tools for preventing and detecting potential security issues. The new tool […]
View More Google makes it easier for G Suite admins to investigate security breachesGoogle’s Smart Compose is now ready to write emails for G Suite users
At its Cloud Next conference, Google today announced that Smart Compose, a new feature in Gmail that essentially autocompletes sentences for you, will become available to all G Suite users in the coming weeks. Smart Compose is part of the new Gmail, where it has been available for the last few months as an experimental feature […]
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