February 5, 2025

XOi raises $230M, acquires Specifx to expand its tech for field service technicians

Field service engineers may not be the first group of customers that come to mind when you think about lucrative opportunities in B2B technology. But that same blind spot speaks of the opportunity in the space for those who are stepping up and targeting “the job site.” One of the players in that space, XOi  […]

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Microsoft’s SQL Server 2022 is all about Azure

November 16, 2022

Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022, the latest version of its database software, which originally launched more than 33 years ago. Microsoft describes this release as the “most Azure-enabled release of SQL Server yet” and with connections to Azure Synapse Link for enabling real-time analytics over the database, Azure Purview for data governance and disaster […]

Microsoft’s SQL Server 2022 is all about Azure by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

New code suggests Twitter is reviving its work on encrypted DMs

November 16, 2022

Under Elon Musk, Twitter may be reviving a project that would bring end-to-end encryption to its Direct Messaging system. Work appears to have resumed on the feature in the latest version of the Android app, according to independent researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who spotted the changes to Twitter’s code While Musk himself recently expressed interest […]

New code suggests Twitter is reviving its work on encrypted DMs by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Microsoft and Nvidia team up to build new Azure-hosted AI supercomputer

November 16, 2022

Roughly two years ago, Microsoft announced a partnership with OpenAI, the AI lab with which it has a close commercial relationship, to build what the tech giant called an “AI Supercomputer” running in the Azure cloud. Containing over 285,000 processor cores and 10,000 graphics cards, Microsoft claimed at the time that it was one of […]

Microsoft and Nvidia team up to build new Azure-hosted AI supercomputer by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Elon Musk, disaster artist

November 16, 2022

We’re at the point in the Elon Musk/Twitter debacle where the fact that it’s a shit show is our new normal, and anything that resembles a normal functioning tech company or leadership is more newsworthy than the inverse. But even as we take for granted that Musk’s rule will continue to tend towards chaos, it’s […]

Elon Musk, disaster artist by Darrell Etherington originally published on TechCrunch

Microsoft Teams now lets you challenge colleagues to a game of Minesweeper or Solitaire

November 16, 2022

With remote or hybrid work going nowhere any time soon, Microsoft today announced new social gaming functionality inside its Teams productivity and collaboration platform. Available to Teams Enterprise and Education subscribers only, the new “Games for Work” app allows colleagues to challenge each other to a game of Minesweeper, Wordament, Icebreaker, and even Solitaire, a […]

Microsoft Teams now lets you challenge colleagues to a game of Minesweeper or Solitaire by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

Linktree intros Payment Lock, paywalls for individual pieces of music, playlists, videos, newsletters, meeting slots and more

November 16, 2022

Looking for more ways to grow its revenue, Linktree knows the way to creators’ hearts and wallets: by building more tools to help them make money. Today the “link in bio” startup, which has some 30 million users and drives around 1.5 billion monthly unique visits to linked content, is launching the latest of these […]

Linktree intros Payment Lock, paywalls for individual pieces of music, playlists, videos, newsletters, meeting slots and more by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Musk poses workers with a choice: quit Twitter, or prepare to get “hardcore”

November 16, 2022

Times are changing at Twitter. In about two weeks under Elon Musk’s leadership, Twitter has fired over 3,700 people, and a slew of high-ranking execs have resigned. But the company’s personnel changes aren’t ending there. According to a report from The Washington Post, Musk sent a late night email offering the remaining Twitter employees a choice: […]

Musk poses workers with a choice: quit Twitter, or prepare to get “hardcore” by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

Akeyless secures a cash infusion to help companies manage their passwords, certificates and keys

November 16, 2022

Back in 2018, Refael Angel, a former security software engineer at Intuit, had an idea for a new approach to protect encryption keys — the random string of bits created to scramble and unscramble data — on the cloud. He met with Shai Onn and then Oded Hareven, with whom Angel had worked five years […]

Akeyless secures a cash infusion to help companies manage their passwords, certificates and keys by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch