Dina Bass at Bloomberg Business has been tipped by people familiar with Microsoft’s plans that Satya Nadella is planning to continue his acquisitions of mobile productivity applications for iOS and Android. Nadella… Read more »
Evernote has accepted that its app is ugly, and as a first step in rectifying that the company has released a very attractive, clean, and intuitive web client, now available in… Read more »
Microsoft announced that the first phase of a new capability called Groups in Office 365. In a nutshell, it looks like groups as commonly found in other ‘collaboration’ tools — a… Read more »
Salesforce has updated and rebranded its Communities product, now known as Salesforce1 Community Cloud. This extends the functionality of communities, and sharpens the competition with other enterprise social network vendors, like… Read more »
Steven Rosenbush and Clint Boulton of the Wall Street Journal did some interesting analysis of the social business — or work technologies — market recently, and determined that various analysis firms… Read more »
Satya Nadella’s massive reorganization is more expansive than just cutting former Nokia employees. Yesterday, David Sacks, the founder and former CEO of Yammer, tweeted that he was leaving Microsoft. David was… Read more »
A few blips on the radar in the past week are leading me to reappraise some of the premises underlying my thinking about the way technology spreads. I was thinking about Google… Read more »
Dropbox continues its acquisition spree, this week pulling in MobileSpan, a provider of mobile apps for secure editing of Office documents behind corporate firewalls. This is clearly in line with Dropbox’s… Read more »
Another indication that we are on the cusp of a revolution in work technologies: Slack, the work conversation app from Tiny Speck, has raised a round of investment of $43 million… Read more »
Atlassian is an interesting company, unusual in many ways. The software development-oriented work management company employs not a single full-time salesperson, although the company has over 35,000 client companies and 800… Read more »