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• Nvidia drops plans to buy Arm for $40B

  08-02-2022 19:17
  
  Graphics chipmaker Nvidia has announced it’s dropping plans to buy chip designer Arm from SoftBank Group Corp. for $40 billion after regulators pushed back over antitrust concerns.In a joint statement issued today, US-based Nvidia and Japan-based Softbank said they terminated the agreement they’d been working on since September 2020 because of “significant regulatory challenges.”To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• Renowned IT Company CVC Solution Expands Executive Leadership with Key New Hires - EIN News

  08-02-2022 15:00 via einnews.com
  Renowned IT Company CVC Solution Expands Executive Leadership with Key New Hires  EIN News
  
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• Google Workspace sees Essentials Starter as a way to 'democratize' collaboration

  08-02-2022 15:00
  
  The launch last week of Google Workspace Essentials Starter Edition aims to offer business users a no-cost solution designed to enhance teamwork and innovation with secure-by-design collaboration.Google said Essentials Starter was designed to help employees and their teams break down silos and work together in new ways, even if their organization relies on legacy productivity tools that weren’t built for the hybrid era of work.In a recent survey the company commissioned to study glob
  
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• Employees want the right tools for work — so let them choose

  08-02-2022 14:40
  
  Driven by employee choice and ease of use, Apple continues to gain share in the enterprise — but businesses still need to fully grapple with the extent to which employees today want tech to get things done that also stays out of the way.Putting the (internal) customer first
  At this stage of the digital transformation of everything, it shouldn’t really need saying. But employees don’t want to use outdated tech and want their employers to get a grip on their controlling ten
  
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• 5G is finally ready for business

  08-02-2022 13:00
  
  For years, I’ve been writing about 5G and telling you why you shouldn’t invest in it. The bottom line has been that 5G simply hasn’t been able to deliver on its high-speed, low-latency promises. But, finally, things have changed. Today, 5G can at last deliver much better performance—sometimes—with certain versions of 5G only offered in specific places.First things first. 5G is an awful name. It covers multiple kinds of cellular data networks. For example, Verizon 5
  
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• How to use Dropbox for team collaboration

  08-02-2022 12:00
  
  Dropbox is best known as a cloud storage service, but it also offers some collaboration tools. For example, you and your co-workers can add comments to files and create shared to-do lists. These functions are available with all Dropbox individual user plans (including both free and paid versions) and team accounts for business.This guide walks you through these collaboration tools when you use Dropbox through a web browser. The Dropbox mobile apps for Android and iOS offer similar features (in
  
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