Microsoft's Q4 earnings show its non-AI “core infrastructure business” is booming, with consumer productivity software revenue up 20%, its best uptick in years
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Sources: the US FTC plans to investigate allegations that Microsoft is abusing its market power in productivity software to prevent customers from leaving Azure
Unfortunately for big tech, JD Vance is a big fan of Lina Khan and has described here as “doing a pretty good job” so the election is unlikely to be a respite from FTC investigations. … X: Daniel Newm...
Microsoft announces Microsoft 365 Copilot, which will bring OpenAI's GPT-4 to Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and its other Office apps in the coming months
here's how Sohini Bagchi / TechCircle : Microsoft adds next-gen AI to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more with Microsoft 365 Copilot Luke Jones / WinBuzzer : Microsoft 365 Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerP...
Microsoft rolls out Dynamics 365 Copilot, an AI assistant that uses OpenAI's tech to draft contextual chat and email answers to customers and more, in preview
the world's first AI Copilot for both CRM and ERP—we are transforming every business process and function with interactive, AI-powered collaboration. Tweets: @mspoweruser : Microsoft is officially inj...
Tome, which uses AI to help build pitch decks, raised a $43M Series B, a source says at a $300M valuation, up from $175M in 2021 and claims over 1M users
Now valued at $300 million while still pre-revenue, per a source, Tome says it's the fastest productivity software maker to ever reach 1 million users since its September release.
Workplace productivity and project management service ClickUp raises a $400M Series C at a $4B post-money valuation led by a16z and Tiger Global
In venture capital, conventional wisdom and decades of startup history tell us … Kenrick Cai / Forbes : ClickUp Raises $400 Million At $4 Billion Valuation As Competition Heats Up In Productivity Soft...
Hibob, which provides cloud-based HR management software, raises $70M Series B led by Seek and Israel Growth Partners, sources say at a ~$500M valuation
Productivity software has been getting a major re-examination this year, and human resources platforms — used for hiring, firing …
Unito, whose tool helps teams communicate between different workplace productivity software suites, raises $10.5M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners
Startup productivity tools have never been better, but that's led to employees being more passionate than ever about the tools that they want to use themselves.
Slack and other workplace messaging services undermine their goal of increased productivity by becoming distractions, where users are constantly chatting
Job software like Teams, Slack, and Workplace were supposed to make us more productive. They haven't. — Several people are typing. Tweets: @mostafanageeb , @bdsams , @cebsilver , @howelloneill , @a...
Vista Equity Partners takes majority stake in Wrike, a work management platform that says it has nearly a $100M run rate, source says at a valuation of ~$800M
Katie Roof / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @jordannovet and @katie_roof Tweets: Jordan ‘Jaws’ Novet / @jordannovet : wow. recall that Atlassian paid $425 million for Trello in early 2017 http://twitt...