Microsoft has been hogging the limelight in recent weeks. Quarterly results in late October showed that commercial cloud revenue for Microsoft — which includes Office 365 and Azure — grew 128 percent year… Read more »
Reddit, the so-called front page of the Internet, has just recently raised $50 million in a series B round ($500 million valuation), and plans to return some part of that funding… Read more »
Microsoft is still the dominant figure in the office/productivity tool sector, despite the efforts like Google Docs and Apple iCloud, and innovations like Box Notes and Quip (see Taking another look at Quip,… Read more »
I saw that Yves Behar, the well-known designer, has been working with Herman Miller on something called the fuseproject, and one outcome is the newly announced Public Office. Before you look… Read more »
We have moved into an era in which we simply cannot do our jobs without the tools originally envisioned as supporting work; these tools have become the work itself and not… Read more »
Cross-platform document collaboration app Quip, created by ex-Facebook CTO and engineer Brett Taylor, has released its new version with improved features. Read more »
In his Weekly Update, Stowe Boyd, the Gigaom Research curator for social, looks at the implications as ‘Google buys Divide’–a startup in which the company had previously invested. Divide provides security… Read more »
Dropbox has brought Dennis Woodside on board to serve as COO, a new position at the company, and becoming the No. 2 at the file sync-and-share leader, reporting to founder and… Read more »
The most recent dust-up between Google and Microsoft for the future of the desktop is a new partnership between Google and VMWare to allow Chromebook users — by bridging Chrome OS… Read more »
I have read at least ten articles and posts about the now-conventional notions about the future of work over the past few weeks. Perhaps this is because there is little breaking… Read more »