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• 11 business lessons from iPod father Tony Fadell

  05-05-2022 15:37
  
  On tour to promote his latest book, ‘Build,’ former Apple executive and iPod designer Tony Fadell talked tech with CNBC. The conversation includes a slew of tidbits for Apple history fans, but Fadell also shared great advice for anyone in enterprise tech.What follows is a small smattering of what was said.When creating products, think why
  “You have to be able to tell the ‘why’ story,” Fadell said.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• California legislators put four-day workweek proposal on hold

  05-05-2022 14:17
  
  A proposal to shorten the workweek for employees in California has apparently been put on hold.The California State Assembly’s Labor and Employment Committee declined to advance Assembly Bill 2932, according to the Wall Street Journal, preventing it from moving forward during the current legislative session.The California bill could return at some stage, however. Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Dist. 28), one of the legislators who has been pushing the idea, said he will now consult with sta
  
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• Welcome to the new world of business travel

  05-05-2022 13:30
  
  The COVID-19 pandemic crushed the business travel industry, hammering trade shows, hotels, airlines, and other services. As video meetings went mainstream, the industry’s loss was Zoom’s gain.But now, restrictions are being lifted. As a result, business travel is coming back.Travel management company TripActions says business travel bookings for the first quarter of this year exceeded all bookings for the entire previous year.Unsurprisingly, the “return” of business trav
  
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• Google acquires Raxium in augmented reality push

  05-05-2022 12:58
  
  Google has acquired Raxium, a five-year-old Bay Area startup working on microLED display technologies for wearables and augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) headsets.“Raxium’s technical expertise in this area will play a key role as we continue to invest in our hardware efforts,” Rick Osterloh, senior vice president of devices and services at Google, wrote in a blog post. The Raxium team will immediately join Google’s devices and services team.The financial terms fo
  
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• Microsoft Edge has edged out Apple's Safari in browser popularity

  05-05-2022 12:33
  
  Microsoft Edge has passed Apple's Safari to become the world's second most popular desktop browser based on data provided by web analytics service StatCounter.In February, Microsoft Edge was on the cusp of catching Safari with less than a half percentage point (9.54% to 9.84%) between the two browsers in terms of popularity among desktop users. StatCounter's latest figures show Edge is now used on 10.07% of desktop computers worldwide, 0.46% ahead of Safari; the latter dropped to 9.61
  
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• How to translate emails, documents, and more with Microsoft Office

  05-05-2022 12:00
  
  I once worked for an international company that was headquartered in Switzerland and have always been fascinated by languages and dialects. I enjoyed the frequent exchanges with Swiss colleagues who knew four or five different languages. Their emails gave me a tantalizing taste of another culture. I’m also half Italian and exchange frequent emails with Italian relatives.  When the person I’m emailing is more comfortable writing and reading in their native tongue than in En
  
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