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| Microsoft’s Slack Competitor Is Getting Cortana Integration and Message Translation | | The Verge | Happy 1st birthday, Microsoft Teams! To celebrate, the Slack competitor is getting some spiffy new features. Perhaps the most interesting are Cortana integration and inline message translation. Microsoft is also adding cloud recording for meetings with automatic transcription and timecoding, background blur on video, mobile sharing for meetings, and the ability to find and add Skype Room Systems into any meetings. | | A Better Way to Manage Multiple SaaS Apps (Featuring New Recommendations from 451 Research) | | BetterCloud Monitor | Managing multiple SaaS apps is creating unprecedented risk and challenges for IT organizations. Enter: SaaS Operations Management (SOM), a new market that's solving those challenges. 451 Research Principal Analyst Carl Lehmann recently hosted a webinar where he explained the high value of SOM and why companies need to start paying closer attention to it. Here's a recap. | | CIOs Fear ‘Skills Gap’ With New Digital Tools | | The Wall Street Journal | Chief information officers in a recent Gartner survey ranked artificial intelligence, digital security, and the Internet of Things as the hardest technologies to implement, with a common pain point being hard-to-find skills required to make these capabilities work. Ben Fried, CIO of Google Inc. agreed, saying “there is an enormous gap” between the available capabilities and the skills required to make them work. | | | | | | This Microsoft App Can Add Somebody on LinkedIn Just by Taking a Photo of Their Business Card — Here's How It Works | | Business Insider | Your next networking event just got a little easier — thanks to artificial intelligence. Microsoft released an update to its camera app, Pix, which lets you add somebody on LinkedIn just by snapping a photo of their business card. Pix is only available for iOS, so Android users are out of luck :( | | How to Add More Fonts to Google Docs | | TechRepublic | If you've found Google Docs collection of default fonts seriously lacking, here's how to add over 1,000 fonts to make your documents stand out. | | |
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