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| | | Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides Can Now Be Edited and Shared Within Dropbox | | The Verge | Dropbox Business now integrates directly with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides within G Suite, letting you create and collaborate on files directly from within the file-sharing service’s interface. The functionality, which was first announced last year, lets you create a new Google file directly within Dropbox, after which it can be shared or searched like any other Dropbox file. | | How Industry-Leading Brands Secure User Interactions in SaaS Apps | | BetterCloud Monitor | This year at Oktane, we hosted a customer panel where we shone a light on a few of our phenomenal customers: Bird, Juul Labs, Peloton, and Spotify. They discussed how they use BetterCloud to save their organizations time and money (and their own sanity). | | Google’s Cloud Services Platform Is Now Anthos, and It Works With AWS and Azure | | VentureBeat | Google yesterday announced that Anthos, a service for hybrid cloud and workload management run on Kubernetes, is now generally available. Anthos will work with Google Cloud Platform of course, but also plays well with multiple other cloud providers, including some of Google’s biggest competitors Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure. | | Facebook Still Tracks You After You Deactivate Account | | CNET | "I thought deactivating my Facebook account would stop the social network from tracking me online. But Facebook kept tabs on me anyway," notes author Alfred Ng. |
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| | | Too Many Tabs Open: Save Your PC Or Mac From Overheating | | Forbes | Too many tabs, in almost any web browser, will lead to overtaxed computer memory, a reduction in battery life, and, for sure, a cluttered browser workspace. Many of us can live with the clutter, but when your machine slows down it's time for a change. | | Master Your Inbox with These 6 Gmail Tips from Google’s Own Productivity Expert | | Time | With an April Fool’s birthday, Gmail has gone from practical joke to practically indispensable as far as email services go. For Gmail’s 15th anniversary, Google announced some important updates to its email service, some of them long-desired features that can change how and when you decide to visit your inbox. Just because companies like Microsoft and Slack are competing to eat Gmail’s lunch doesn’t mean the old dog is done learning new tricks. |
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| | | 6 Habits of Successful Risk Managers | | ZDNet | The speed and scale of digital rollouts are putting risk and internal audit professionals in a difficult spot, and the smarter risk managers are making more use of data and digital capabilities to inform their decisions, according to a new study from consulting firm PwC. |
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| | | Charging More for Single Sign On Has to Stop | | Medium | "When I left my large, enterprise, Microsoft-focused, on-premise job in 2015, I knew I wanted to work in a place that was mostly or all SaaS. I started that journey by picking out a great SSO/IDP platform to connect everything together, powered by my HRIS system, and sprawling out to dozens of tools helping my IT team of one do the job of four. We built our own Okta-powered tools, we integrated third-party libraries, and I connected dozens of apps. But something started to bother me: Companies preying on small, low-budget teams like mine by monetizing SSO/SAML," says author Zander. |
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| | | Increase Everyday Productivity with Office 365 Apps for Slack | | Several People Are Typing | Your company relies on a unique mix of tools to get work done. Maybe it’s Zoom for calls, Box for file storage, and Outlook for email and calendaring. Or, you could be using Webex and OneDrive, or Dropbox and G Suite. No matter what your mix looks like, Slack takes all of these everyday work tools out of browser tabs and brings them into one central place. And now, that includes Office 365 tools too. |
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