Microsoft has today launched the newly rebranded Office Online (www.office.com) suite of apps, succeeding the popular Web Apps. Today’s launch also paves the way for more usability improvements to make it easier for consumers to take advantage of available features, including easier collaboration and sharing with others. The original Microsoft suite of online Office apps were…
Awesome to see Office Online getting the branding, unification, and ease of access it sorely needed.
The tech/information sector supports 262,000 jobs in New York City, making it the second-biggest sector of the local economy. Hiring is definitely on the upswing and is there a company in the city that isnât screaming for tech help and even help in other areas? They may be screaming, but they just donât seem to be pulling the trigger and therein lies the rub. We come across articles all the time about how to hire your next employee, culture fit, and on and on.
The Goldilocks Syndrome: Why Startups Canât Find Employees
Parcel brings even more convenience to online shopping by delivering your packages when you want them.
File this under #signmeupimmediately and #facepalm.
Parcel Delivers Packages After Hours, When You’re Actually Home
Tristan Walker has gone from oil trading to hawking shaving cream in six years. As an economics major at Stony Brook University in Long Island, Walker — who..
Cool personal story and even cooler product. +1.
“This caters specifically to the target segments that primarily want to use their apps on their smartphones and only secondarily use their phone to talk & text, which probably by now is the majority of the smartphone users.”
This is very much me. I still use SMS a lot but at the same time switch almost hourly through Skype, WhatsApp, GroupMe (yes, still), and several others since I have friends scattered across the networks.
LinkedIn engagement is rising, and its high-income audience is especially desirable for brands.
A good summary of how well LinkedIn is doing, but the article also includes some good tips on “key times to post” on the various networks. We’re working hard on our social media presence for Contactive and are always testing to find the best time to post, blog, tweet, and share.
LinkedIn May Not Be The Coolest Social Network, But It’s Only Becoming More Valuable To Businesses
Apple CEO Tim Cook, talking to Daisuke Wakabayashi:
Last year, we grew (revenue) by $14 billion to $15 billion. Yes, those percentages are smaller compared to a year earlier and two years earlier and so forth. But that doesn’t mean that you’re not a growth company. We were in hyper-growth, or whatever is above growth. We went from $65 billion to over $100 billion to $150 billion to $170 billion. These are historic, unprecedented numbers. I don’t know any companies adding growth at that level. So when you say $14 billion to $15 billion compared to those numbers, it’s clearly smaller and a smaller percentage, but, to put it in some context, that’s like adding three Fortune 500 companies in a year. I think that’s hard to say that’s not a growth company.
This is another way to articulate the Law of Large Numbers issue that Apple faces. And it’s certainly hard to argue with.
Steve Ballmer said the same thing for years, no one believed him. Will they believe Tim Cook? And does it matter as long as the solutions continue to flow.
Consider this the official soundtrack to your 2014 countdown.
Slowly working my way through the list en route to #Ultra this year.
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The honeymoon is on. Microsoft finally announced a new CEO yesterday: Satya Nadella. And the blogosphere seemingly could not be more pleased.
And I have to admit, reading all the coverage, Nadella sounds like the right choice. He knows Microsoft. He was leading the one…
This is basically exactly how I feel (minus the fact that I still use a lot of MS services and devices):
“Look, I’m rooting for Microsoft. I know that given the devices I prefer and where I work, this will sound disingenuous. But I mean it. Microsoft was once the tech company I admired above all others. And if nothing else, I firmly believe that a strong Microsoft only helps push the entire ecosystem forward, faster. Competition is not only good, it’s vital. And no company will be more competitive than a strong Microsoft. Any way you slice it, that would be a huge win for us, the consumers.”
The Line messaging app that spent last year pushing beyond its home market of Japan has inked a deal aiming to bolster its presence in markets in Latin..
#neato 