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This week's digital workplace news round-up with news from Microsoft's Build, Google I/O and more.
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File sharing has morphed from a behavior that rogue workers do to a default in the workplace. Here are some of the top players to consider for your business.
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A look back at the week in digital workplace news.
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Google Drive is on its ways out.
Mountain View, Calif.-based Google announced this week it will start closing down Drive on Dec. 11 and Drive will stop working completely on March 12, 2018.
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Google Drive, one of the most widely used apps in Google’s G Suite, was back in the headlines this week with news of a new backup solution called Backup and Sync.
According to Mountain View, Calif.
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Google is boosting its collaboration play with two new enterprise-focused services — Hangouts Meet and Hangouts Chat — as well as new enterprise-grade features for Google Drive.
It's also acquiring AppBridge, a Vancouver, British Columbia-based company that helps businesses move their files and data into the Google Cloud platform.
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Google is bringing the powerful natural language processing (NLP) technology that underlies its search engine to Google Drive.
In a blog post announcing the move this week, Josh Smith, product manager at Google Drive, described NLP as a fancy way of saying “search like you talk.
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Social media management provider Hootsuite has announced integrations with popular content management repository systems in a move designed to help marketers leverage digital assets.
Hootsuite, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, has integrated Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Box, Google Drive and other content sources into the Hootsuite publishing platform.
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When Google rebranded its Enterprise Business as Google for Work, it signaled a return to the small business space. Now WordPress and Squarespace have announced they have joined the Google for Work Partner Program — a logical step in this refocus.
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Keeping a schedule set at its Worldwide Partner Conference in July, Microsoft has finally released service plans that will make it cheaper for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to use Office 365. There is a small sting in the program, which went into effect last week.
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What's the best way to make a lifelong customer? Microsoft apparently believes in getting them while they are young. In its latest assault on the productivity suite market, it is offering Office 365 to students for free. Yes, yes.
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Here's a riddle for you: Why is Google rebranding of its Enterprise business? Last night, Google announced the division that sells Google Drive and Gmail, among other services, is changing its name to Google for Work. The announcement left a large number of observers underwhelmed.
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Google quietly landed what could be a killer blow for Microsoft Apps with the release of a number of upgrades to Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. The first piece of bad news for Microsoft: Google created a separate iOS app for Slides, its answer to Microsoft PowerPoint.
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