The long-running saga of Intel’s foundry woes opened a hopeful chapter this week with the news that Intel and its partner/ rival TSMC will join forces to create a new venture. That entity will run Intel’s fabrication plants. Intel’s efforts to revive its chip manufacturing business to its former glory …
Read More »Microsoft Is Retiring Skype, Pushing Users to Teams
A message inside the latest Skype for Windows preview says it will shut down Skype on May 5, 2025, after 23 years of service. The company plans to focus its efforts on Microsoft Teams, which will become its primary platform for communication and collaboration, as reported by XDA Developers and …
Read More »Microsoft Team Meetings
(Image: Microsoft)We’re a couple years into the remote work revolution now, and video meetings’ novelty is long gone. Though some people have returned to the office (by force or by choice), others are still working from home at least some of the time, which means they’re probably continuing to endure …
Read More »Microsoft And iFixit Repair
Microsoft is jumping on the Right to Repair bandwagon via a new partnership with the popular product teardown and DIY repair website iFixit. Microsoft has begun making its custom tool designs for Surface repairs available for purchase from iFixit, which will sell them to certified repair technicians. While end users …
Read More »Snapchat Extends Visual
TikTok jumps into social commerce with Shopify TikTok’s advertising division TikTok for Business announced a global integration with Shopify Tuesday that makes it easy for Shopify merchants to promote their products on the short-form video social network. The two companies also announced #ShopBlack to amplify Black-owned Shopify merchants on TikTok. …
Read More »Improve SEO and IT Teams
How to improve efficiency between SEO and IT teams When working with a company that uses its IT department as a “gatekeeper,” you need to find ways to work with IT staff to get SEO recommendations implemented quickly. Here we’ll discuss our recommendations for making the SEO/IT relationship work to …
Read More »DeepGraph feeds enterprise sales teams with hyper-targeted warm leads
The best way to grow sales is to better understand sales, but unfortunately that’s often easier said than done. Kemvi, a seed-stage startup, is launching out of stealth today to announce DeepGraph, which helps sales teams reach the right potential customers at the right time. The company has closed north of $1 million in …
Read More »NFL Teams Live on the Edge in Round 1 of the Draft
As the craziness of the night unfolded, and the trades flew, and the insanity grew, and the pockmarked players were picked early and often, a general manager provided the perfect phrase for the draft. The Red Flag Draft encompasses everything: medical issues, experience questions, among others. In fact, it’s likely …
Read More »Google Posts from NBA, NHL & MLB teams will now appear in Knowledge Panels
Aiming to grab the attention of more basketball, hockey and baseball fans, Google will now include Google Posts from NBA, NHL and MLB teams directly in Knowledge Panels. According to an announcement Monday, any Google Posts from NBA, NHL and MLB organizations will be included within the Knowledge Panel that …
Read More »PayPal teams up with Android Pay for mobile payments
PayPal is joining forces with Google’s Android Pay mobile payments platform, the companies announced this morning – an effort aimed at allowing PayPal to expand its footprint both within mobile applications as well as at brick-and-mortar retailers. The partnership will see PayPal becoming available as a payment method in the …
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