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Microsoft plans to introduce new versions of its Microsoft 365 and Office 365 subscription services that exclude Teams and unbundle the suite following scrutiny from European Union regulators and complaints from competing Slack. The move follows Microsoft's agreement last year to sell its Office 365 suite in the EU and Switzerland without offering Microsoft Teams. The company introduced Teams as a free service in its Office 365 suite in 2017. Many companies claim that Microsoft enjoys an unfair advantage by combining the two products. Salesforce-owned Slack called the move “illegal,” claiming Microsoft forced customers to install Teams through its market-dominant…
The venture capitalists who have long run GGV Capital, a 24-year-old cross-border company that has served as a bridge between the U.S. and China, have since announced they would split its U.S. and Asian operations. After about 6 months, we settled on two new brands. As first reported by Forbes magazine, veteran investors Jenny Lee and Jixin Fu have just rebranded their Singapore-based business as Granite Asia. Meanwhile, the company's co-founder, Hans Tung, lives in the Bay Area. Published in X Yesterday, it was announced that the US team is now called “Notable Capital.” GGV Capital announced last fall that…
To give female academics and others focused on AI their well-deserved and overdue spotlight time, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews highlighting notable women who have contributed to the AI revolution. Start. As the AI boom continues, we'll be publishing several articles throughout the year highlighting key research that may go unrecognized. Click here for a detailed profile. Brandie Nonnecke is the founding director of the CITRIS Policy Lab, headquartered at the University of California, Berkeley, which supports interdisciplinary research that addresses questions about the role of regulation in promoting innovation. Nonnecke leads projects on AI, Platforms, and Society…
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we take a look at Robinhood's new Gold Card, challenges in the BaaS space, and how a small startup caught the eye of Stripe. Get TechCrunch's roundup of the biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Sunday at 7:30 a.m. PT. Subscribe here. big story Robinhood unveiled its new gold card to much fanfare last week. It has a long list of great features, including 3% cashback and the ability to invest that cashback through the company's brokerage account. Users can also transfer that cash back to…
There are many ways to explain what is happening to the Earth's climate: Global warming. climate change. climate crisis. Global strangeness. They all try to capture phenomena caused by anomalies in the world's weather systems in different ways. Despite the large selection of thesaurus entries, it is still a very difficult concept to relate. However, researchers at MIT may finally have an answer. Instead of predicting Category 5 hurricanes and record-breaking hot days, they predicted how many “outdoor days” their region would experience between now and 2100 if rising carbon emissions were unchecked. We have developed a tool that allows…
Will Lawrence, co-founder and CTO of Iron Sheepdog, often says that building something simple can actually be very difficult. Iron Sheepdog's goal is to build easy-to-use technology for the short-haul trucking industry. This approach is also why the company believes it has been able to see a level of adoption in the industry that its competitors haven't. The Williamsburg, Virginia-based company's software aims to make the short-haul trucking sector more seamless and efficient, primarily for truckers who book short-haul jobs through brokers. This includes outsourcing. Companies can track the trucks they contract through Iron Sheepdog, giving them more transparency into…
To give female academics and others focused on AI their well-deserved and overdue spotlight time, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews highlighting notable women who have contributed to the AI revolution. Start. As the AI boom continues, we'll be publishing several articles throughout the year highlighting key research that may go unrecognized. Click here for a detailed profile. Kate Devlin is a lecturer in AI and Society at King's College London. Author of Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots, which examines the ethical and social implications of technology and intimacy, Devlin's research explores how people interact with and respond…
Mobile phone giant AT&T has reset the passcodes on millions of customer accounts after a huge cache of data containing AT&T customer records was leaked online earlier this month, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. . The US telecom giant announced a mass passcode reset after TechCrunch notified AT&T on Monday that the leaked data included encrypted passcodes that could be used to access AT&T customer accounts. It started. Security researchers who analyzed the leaked data told TechCrunch that encrypted account passcodes are easy to crack. TechCrunch alerted AT&T to the security researchers' findings. In a statement filed Saturday, AT&T said: Based…
Keeping up with an industry as rapidly changing as AI is a challenge. So until AI can do it for you, here's a quick roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, as well as notable research and experiments that we didn't cover independently. This week in AI, we'd like to spotlight labeling and annotation startups. Startups like Scale AI are reportedly in talks to raise new funding at a valuation of $13 billion. Labeling and annotation platforms may not get the same attention as flashy new generative AI models like OpenAI's Sora. But they are essential. Without…
Google will shut down its Podcasts app in the US within the next few days. The company has begun warning app users that they must migrate their subscriptions to YouTube Music by April 2 to follow and stream their favorite shows going forward. Users who don't migrate right away still have time to do so, but after this date they will no longer be able to stream directly from the Podcasts app. The Google Podcasts app has been installed more than 500 million times on Android devices worldwide and has been around for more than 5 years, providing a simple,…