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Salesforce cuts workforce by 700
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Salesforce to hire 3,000 workers

Cloud-based software company Salesforce is now hiring 3,300 people across a variety of departments, according to a Thursday report by Bloomberg News. “Our job is to grow the company and to continue to achieve great margins,” Benioff told Bloomberg in an interview. “We know we have to hire thousands of people.” The disclosure is coming […]

WordPress integrates ActivityPub to allow followership
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WordPress integrates ActivityPub to allow followership

WordPress, a platform for creating websites, has made it possible for users to follow the platform on services like Mastodon and among other users in the fediverse thanks to ActivityPub 1.0.0. Automattic, the parent company of WordPress demonstrated its commitment to the fediverse in March when it purchased an ActivityPub plug-in that enables WordPress blogs […]

Nigerian web hosting company WhoGoHost acquires SendChamp
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Nigerian web hosting company WhoGoHost acquires SendChamp

Nigerian provider of cloud infrastructure, WhoGoHost, has acquired SendChamp, a cloud communications firm that provides online messaging for African businesses for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition, which includes cash and stock, is a part of WhoGoHost’s strategic ambitions to broaden the value it is able to provide to its clientele. SendChamp, a service founded in […]

Adobe to launch Photoshop for mobile users
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Adobe unveils AI features for public

Adobe on Wednesday made a number of generative artificial intelligence technologies available throughout its software after months of development. The foundation of Adobe’s subscription software business is its line of editing tools like Photoshop. The business has been gradually integrating new AI features, such the capacity to create images from text, into those programmes during […]

Telegram launches controversial peer-to-peer SMS login service
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Telegram launches crypto wallet

Messaging platform, Telegram which boasts 800 million active users each month, is introducing a self-custodial cryptocurrency wallet. The move is intended to strengthen its position in the vibrant crypto community that has grown out of its chat platform and may help draw more people into the space. The Open Network Foundation, which was founded by […]

Salesforce launches AI assistant for Slack, Tableau
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Salesforce launches AI assistant for Slack, Tableau

Enterprise software provider Salesforce on Tuesday launched a generative AI tool that will be accessible through Slack and Tableau. The company claimed ahead of its Dreamforce conference this week that the assistant, known as Einstein Copilot, can among other things summarise video sessions, provide personalised replies to client concerns, and produce emails for marketing efforts. […]

Top executives from American and Vietnamese companies in the semiconductor, technology, and aviation sectors gathered on Monday, as part of U.S. President Joe Biden's visit to Hanoi, Vietnam.
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Biden meets top tech executives in Vietnam

Top executives from American and Vietnamese companies in the semiconductor, technology, and aviation sectors gathered on Monday, as part of U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to Hanoi, Vietnam. According to the meeting agenda, senior executives from Google, Intel, Amkor, Marvell, GlobalFoundries, and Boeing attended the Vietnam-U.S. Innovation & Investment Summit. Executives from half a dozen […]

Zoho hits 100m users milestone
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Zoho hits 100m users milestone

Leading global technology company Zoho announced on Tuesday that it now serves 100 million users across its 55+ business applications. The company disclosed that it is the first bootstrapped SaaS company to accomplish this feat. This expansion follows the company’s $1 billion revenue milestone last year. The co-founder and CEO of Zoho Corp., Sridhar Vembu, […]

Russian court fines Tinder over refusal to localize user data
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Russian court fines Tinder over refusal to localize user data

The Match Group, the parent company of dating app Tinder and the live streaming service Twitch, has been fined by the Russian Justice on Monday for refusing to locate the servers containing the personal information of Russian users in Russia. According to judicial sources, Justice of the Peace Timur Vajrameyev of Moscow’s 422nd District penalized […]

Call of Duty monitors hate speech with AI
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Call of Duty monitors hate speech with AI

Call of Duty, a shooter computer game, has begun utilising AI to keep an eye out for hate speech during online matches. The moderator tool, which makes use of machine learning technology, can recognise harassment and offensive language in real-time, according to publisher Activision. According to Michael Vance, chief technical officer of Activision, it will […]

Canva suffers global outage, locks out millions of users
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Canva suffers global outage, locks out millions of users

The picture and video editing platform Canva has encountered a downtime for users all over the world. According to data from outage tracker, DownDetector, the reports of the outage which started by 1:00PM have spiked to more than 700. In response to the outage, Canva appealed to users via their X handle to exercise patience […]

Substack introduces video feed to challenge TikTok
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Substack launches AI-powered tools to aid podcasting

Substack is launching new AI-powered tools, the business announced on Wednesday to aid the making of podcasts on the platform simpler. “We’ve done this all using cutting-edge AI tools, and it reflects our philosophy of not thinking that this AI stuff is ever going to take the place of work done by writers and creators—but […]