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

Amazon begins layoffs as economic woes mount

November 16, 2022

This week, Amazon began the process of cutting jobs across the company. Managers have begun informing employees that they have two months to find another role inside the company or accept severance, according to reports. Numerous employees have acknowledged that they were impacted by the moves via services like LinkedIn. Other reports, meanwhile, cite frustrations […]

Amazon begins layoffs as economic woes mount by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Matter Labs, the company behind zkSync, raises $200 million to scale Ethereum

November 16, 2022

Matter Labs has raised a $200 million Series C funding round co-led by Blockchain Capital and Dragonfly. Matter Labs is better known for its work on zkSync, an Ethereum scaling solution that drastically reduces the cost of Ethereum transactions. LightSpeed Venture Partners, Variant and Andreessen Horowitz are also participating in the Series C round. Overall, […]

Matter Labs, the company behind zkSync, raises $200 million to scale Ethereum by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

Hinge’s new feature makes it easier for those seeking non-monogamous relationships

November 16, 2022

Today, Hinge rolled out a feature that allows users to add their “Relationship Type” to their profile, whether that be “monogamous,” “non-monogamous,” or “figuring out my relationship type.” The update lets users express precisely what they’re looking for to more efficiently minimize unsuited matches. “Relationship Type” is available globally for all Hinge users starting today. […]

Hinge’s new feature makes it easier for those seeking non-monogamous relationships by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch