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• Workday expands service that surfaces employee skills

  15-09-2022 22:05
  Workday this week announced an expansion to its Skills Cloud service, which uses existing employee information culled from third-party systems to discover talents that can be put to use within an organization.Introduced in 2018, Skills Cloud comes natively with Workday’s Human Capital Management platform, machine learning software that helps client companies build talent management programs.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition highlights web-based collaboration trends

  15-09-2022 19:32
  Adobe announced today that it would pay $20 billion in cash and stock to acquire Figma, a web-based collaborative design platform. Figma will be folded into the larger Adobe family of products, and will continue to operate independently until the deal closes.The $20 billion figure is a substantial step up in valuation for Figma, which was valued at $10 billion in its last funding round in 2021. The company was founded in 2012, and Adobe said that it has since developed a dedicated following amo
  
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• Google’s failure to quash EU antitrust ruling has broad implications for tech companies

  15-09-2022 19:11
  The EU General Court's decision Wednesday to largely uphold the ruling of the European Commission that fined Google €4 billion (US$3.9 billion) for antitrust violations could have wide-ranging implications for other tech companies.The case dates back to 2018, when the EU’s competition chief, Margrethe Vestager, issued a ruling that Google used its Android mobile operating system to undermine competitors.The ruling dealt with three types of agreements that involved Google’s mobi
  
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• Executive presence training: Why every leader needs it - Big Think

  15-09-2022 18:15 via bigthink.com
  Executive presence training: Why every leader needs it  Big Think
  
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• iPhone users have become more cautious about fast iOS upgrades

  15-09-2022 17:53
  The urgency with which IT needs to prepare for major iOS releases seems to have slowed since the early days when everyone rushed to install the latest version of Apple's mobile software.At least this year, iPhone users appear to have become a little more laid back.The installation patterns are changing
  The reasons for thinking this are suggested by the latest Mixpanel stats. As of earlier today, Mixpanel claims roughly 13.3% of iPhone users have upgraded to iOS 16 since it was introduced t
  
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• Tik Tok executive refuses to say it will stop sending U.S. user data to China - Boing Boing

  15-09-2022 16:55 via boingboing.net
  Tik Tok executive refuses to say it will stop sending U.S. user data to China  Boing Boing
  
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• "It's an amazing and a humbling experience" - Genesis House Executive Director on seeing donations at work - PembinaValleyOnline.com

  15-09-2022 13:10 via pembinavalleyonline.com
  "It's an amazing and a humbling experience" - Genesis House Executive Director on seeing donations at work  PembinaValleyOnline.com
  
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• Digital whiteboards: The next must-have tool for hybrid teams?

  15-09-2022 12:00
  The scope of workplace collaboration tools available to teams today stretches far beyond anything employees might have imagined two and a half years ago. When work-from-home orders swept the globe in early 2020, most organizations were focused on ensuring they had viable video and chat platforms in place. Now, as a significant proportion of employees have decided to work outside of the office for at least part of the work week, tools that do more than just support workers’ basic communica
  
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