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Google on Wednesday rolled out a number of new features designed to make its G Suite collaboration and productivity apps more efficient and safer to use G Suite currently has more than 4 million paying business customers, according to Google....

Amazon on Tuesday added a new option to its Amazon Key service for Prime members: in-car delivery, which allows drivers to place packages inside a locked trunk or elsewhere in a car that is parked in a publicly accessible area The Amazon Key In-Car delivery service is available at no extra charge to millions of Amazon Prime members, including drive...

SalesHero on Tuesday introduced a new artificial intelligence-based sales assistant known as "Robin." Built for the sales rep, Robin can learn from a user's actions and automate processes to help improve a sales team's daily productivity Robin can access data from customer relationship management systems, customer interactions, and SaleHero's own p...

Users of Google's Gmail have been receiving spam that appears to have been sent from their own accounts, according to reports. Google said it was aware of a spam campaign impacting a "small subset of Gmail users" and was taking measures to protect against it.

Amazon plans to bring a home robot to market as early as 2019 Codenamed "Vesta," after the Roman goddess of home and family, the project is several years old, but hiring for it recently has ramped up with an eye toward placing prototypes in employees' homes by the end of the year, Bloomberg reported Monday, citing people familiar with the plans....

Building a community around a brand is an important and often-overlooked part of being successful in e-commerce. "Community solidifies the relationship between your brand and your customer," said e-commerce consultant Ian Rhodes.

Vendors have a better shot at closing deals for large-scale B2B software purchases when they are upfront and honest about the quality of their products, a new study from TrustRadius suggests. There is a bit of a trust gap between what is promised in negotiations for these deals and what actually is provided, indicates the poll of more than 650 tec...

What we do about fake news today could have a major impact on our future. Two new initiatives -- a concerted effort by Apple and a massive educational effort called the "Pro-Truth Pledge" -- could help eliminate much of the fake news BS that is really messing up the United States at the moment. On another front, President Donald Trump's plan to ...

Microsoft has opted to use its own version of a Linux operating system instead of Windows 10 to drive its new Azure Sphere solution for securely connecting Internet of Things devices. Microsoft introduced Azure Sphere last week at the RSA security conference in San Francisco.

Companies that aim to upsell their existing customers should develop a hybrid message that reinforces their existing relationships while providing an incentive to break the status quo, suggests a new study commissioned by Corporate Visions The study was conducted by Nick Lee, a professor at Warwick Business School, in partnership with the Internati...

Amazon on Thursday introduced Alexa Skill Blueprints, adding personalization capabilities to its smart speaker devices. The new tool provides pre-crafted templates for users to create customized experiences. Among the possibilities are answers to specific questions or skills for particular users, such as houseguests With Alexa Skill Blueprints, use...

The U.S. government has launched two new programs designed to modernize and upgrade IT performance at federal agencies. Each program will involve significant participation of private sector providers as both advisors and contractors for IT equipment and services The first program involves the creation of a federal Information Technology Modernizat...

NixOS is a modern and flexible GNU/Linux-based distribution that is both archaic to install and maddening to set up....

Facebook on Tuesday unveiled a comprehensive series of privacy enhancements designed to extend protections required by the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation to all of the social media company's users around the world The updates, which include major changes to the company's terms and data policies, fulfill promises CEO Mark Zucker...

Best Buy will be the exclusive retailer for Amazon's next generation of Fire TV Edition smart TVs in the United States and Canada under a new multiyear partnership the firms announced Wednesday Best Buy will carry more than 10 4K and HD Fire TV Edition models from Insignia and Toshiba starting this summer....

Rising tensions between China and the United States have led to growing concerns that a tariff war will have a negative impact on the electronics industry. Amazingly, the industry has been spared thus far, and with good reason. However, even if tariffs aren't imposed, there is a silent battle between the two countries that already has impacted the global electronics ecosystem...

Apple plans to launch a news subscription service within the next year The new service will combine features from its recent Texture acquisition and Apple's existing news app, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter....

Demandbase officially announced ABM Analytics during its annual ABM Innovation Summit in San Francisco last week. The new tech, part of the company's account-based marketing platform, leverages its account identification technology to help marketers analyze performance from advertising to pipeline and revenue figures "Artificial intelligence gives ...

About 20 percent of the most popular Android Apps available through the Google Play Store contain open-source components with known security vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers, according to a report Insignary will release next week The findings are the result of the company's recent comprehensive binary code scan of the 700 most popul...

Microsoft, Oracle, and Facebook, along with 31 other companies, on Tuesday, signed the Cybersecurity Tech Accord, an agreement aimed at defending against cyberattacks, whether coming from rogue hackers or nation-states. The 34 tech firms committed to stronger defenses, no offensive attacks, capacity building, and collective action The accord is des...