Microsoft Bing is Launching an Xbox App
Microsoft is launching a Bing search app for Xbox One, which offers some unique hardware integrations for gamers. With the Microsoft Bing app, Xbox users can search the web, discover…
Just what would an enterprise company like Microsoft or Oracle do with TikTok?
By now you’ve probably heard that under pressure from the current administration, TikTok owner ByteDance is putting the viral video service up for sale, and surprisingly a couple of big…
TikTok says it’s “not planning on going anywhere” in response to pending U.S. ban
TikTok’s U.S. General Manager Vanessa Pappas has posted a video message to the platform that appears to be a response to reports from Friday that President Trump is working on…
LinkedIn has no plans to make COVID-19 related layoffs from now until end of fiscal year
LinkedIn has no plans to make COVID-related layoffs until at least the end of June 2020, the professional network has confirmed to TechCrunch. This announcements comes after Salesforce CEO Marc…
Bing to start crawling all websites with the new Microsoft Edge
Bing this month announced that is adopting the new Microsoft Edge, as the engine to run JavaScript and render web pages, using then this data on Bing Search. Bing is…
How Europe overtook the US in championing free markets
The deregulation of major U.S. industries like telecom and energy in the 1970s and 80s sparked competition that lowered consumer prices and drove product innovation between competitors. Europe, on the…
Microsoft Teams gets Yammer integration, secure private channels and more
You’re forgiven if you thought Yammer — Microsoft’s proto-Slack, not quite real-time chat application — was dead. It’s actually still alive (and well) — and still serves a purpose as…
Microsoft launches Power Virtual Agents, its no-code bot builder
Microsoft today announced the public preview of its Power Virtual Agents tool, a new no-code tool for building chatbots that’s part of the company’s Power Platform, which also includes the…
Tech giants still not doing enough to fight fakes, says European Commission
It’s a year since the European Commission got a bunch of adtech giants together to spill ink on a voluntary Code of Practice to do something — albeit, nothing very…
Daily Crunch: LinkedIn now supports real-world events
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