EU antitrust cops probe Microsoft ties between Entra ID and 365 services Exclusive Google claims rival has made an 'art and science' out of licensing SaaS22 Mar 2024 | 29
ServiceNow goes to Washington DC, with a suitcase full of AI Claims the tech has brought 38 percent improvement to its own dev cycle time Software21 Mar 2024 | 3
Microsoft hits Inflection point, peels off top personnel to form AI division FYI, FTC: Karén Simonyan, DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman absorbed rather than acquired AI + ML19 Mar 2024 | 12
Don't be like these 900+ websites and expose millions of passwords via Firebase Warning: Poorly configured Google Cloud databases spill billing info, plaintext credentials CSO18 Mar 2024 | 11
Microsoft promises Copilot will be a 'moneymaker' in the long term Exec tells investors to 'temper' expectations as mission to convince customers of price tag continues AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 57
Oracle adds GenAI to Fusion with a whopping 50 use cases But is there one that can sort out failing ERP projects? Well Larry, is there? AI + ML14 Mar 2024 | 2
SAP accused of age discrimination, retaliation by US whistleblower Updated Claims exec was moved to 'retire in place' role are now settled SaaS14 Mar 2024 | 9
Sunak's defunct SaaS scheme spent seven percent of budget designed to help 100,000 SMEs Unicorn Kingdom prime minister fails to provide £300 million of magic software beans promised SaaS13 Mar 2024 | 26
European Commission broke its own data privacy law with Microsoft 365 use Euro folk have until December to put house in order Public Sector11 Mar 2024 | 29
Google sends Gemini AI back to engineering to adjust its White balance Comment Big Tech keeps poisoning the well without facing any consequences for its folly AI + ML23 Feb 2024 | 50
UK Cabinet Office hits pause on £9M Microsoft deal Google Workspace hangout extended indefinitely SaaS15 Feb 2024 | 33
NHS in Wales bets big on Microsoft with deal worth nearly half a billion Forget historic cloud downtime, latest contract with reseller to offer 'agile and flexible' approach SaaS13 Feb 2024 | 28
Twitter spinout Bluesky ends invite-only phase and opens its doors to all comers Dorsey-backed federated social media alternative promises custom feed algos, and more SaaS06 Feb 2024 | 21
Snow day in corporate world thanks to another frustrating Microsoft Teams outage Network rollback fails to resolve issue in Americas as Redmond scrambles to optimize its way out of the problem SaaS27 Jan 2024 | 35
Microsoft 365's add-on avalanche is putting the squeeze on customers Like buying a car where the seats are an optional extra SaaS18 Jan 2024 | 45
Duke Uni libraries decamp from 37Signals' Basecamp over CTO's blogs We're canceling our subscriptions, say librarians citing co-founder's views SaaS01 Dec 2023 | 43
Microsoft's Swiss army knife app hopes to cut through cloud clutter Ignite A 'win' for Windows or just another pane in the glass? SaaS16 Nov 2023 | 6
Microsoft 365 Copilot 'generally available' – if you can afford 300 seats Updated Small businesses need not apply SaaS03 Nov 2023 | 15
Amazon to drop a cool $1B on Microsoft 365 cloud suite Over a million licenses for office software to be used by corporate and frontline workers SaaS18 Oct 2023 | 19
So this one time, at Bandcamp, half the staff were laid off Epic redundancies all round SaaS17 Oct 2023 | 45
Atlassian buys 'asynchronous video' outfit Loom for almost $1 billion Imagine a Jira bug report with an embedded video explaining the situation SaaS13 Oct 2023 | 25
ServiceNow upgrade goes from AI to Zero Trust You can’t not do GenAI in 2023, and 'Vancouver' release has gone there – but its detours may be more worthy SaaS21 Sep 2023 | 1
Salesforce engineers roll back change after breaking own cloud for hours today Updated Services said to be returning to normal from downtime though Tableau Cloud still MIA SaaS20 Sep 2023 | 3
Salesforce flipflops from 'you're fired' to 'you're hired' in six short months Recruitment U-turn down to search for growth and margins, CEO says SaaS15 Sep 2023 | 27
Microsoft billing 3 cents a minute to revisit tedious Teams meetings via API One more reason to keep them short and sweet SaaS04 Sep 2023 | 23
Official: Microsoft unbundles Teams in Europe Breaking up is hard to do: Redmond reluctantly lets EU play matchmaker for software suite flings SaaS31 Aug 2023 | 19
Verizon to 'sunset' Blue Jeans vidconf platform Also-ran service done in by ‘changing market conditions in a post-pandemic landscape' SaaS09 Aug 2023 | 26
Google launches $99 a night Hotel Mountain View for hybrid workers And pandemic video conferencing poster child Zoom ushers staff back into the office for two days a week SaaS07 Aug 2023 | 68
It's official: EU probing bundling of Teams with Microsoft 365 Updated Antitrust inspectors trying to figure out if Redmond has breached local competition laws SaaS27 Jul 2023 | 42
Global Slack messaging outage cuts world off from colleagues Come back Teams, all is forgiven SaaS27 Jul 2023 | 14
MySQL Heatwave dives into object storage data lakes Oracle joins the analytics anywhere bandwagon, promises future access to AWS S3 SaaS20 Jul 2023 | 2
Euro monopoly cops to probe Microsoft for slipping Teams into Office Three years after Slack flagged up 'illegal' bundling of chat app SaaS17 Jul 2023 | 44
Investors give Salesforce a 4% slap on back for raising prices Just think of the margins SaaS12 Jul 2023 | 1
Microsoft Azure OpenAI lets enterprises feed corporate secrets to ChatGPT Updated Apparently you're all dying to do this? SaaS22 Jun 2023 | 22
Google formally accuses monopolist Microsoft of trapping people in its cloud Updated Fight! Fight! Fight! SaaS21 Jun 2023 | 24
Suit alleges Oracle oversold and under-delivered on NetSuite software Binding service terms hidden in contractual documents, plaintiff claims SaaS21 Jun 2023 | 4
Tech vendors have been hiking prices by up to 24% amid inflation Customers also warned to look out for audits following M&As SaaS16 Jun 2023 | 13
Salesforce lures staff with $10 donation to charity for each day they're in the office Promo runs from June 12 and 24 as company promises it's not tracking which workers participate SaaS07 Jun 2023 | 14
Microsoft battles through two 365 outages in one day Updated Windows titan blames technical problems while hacktivists claim it woz them wot did it SaaS06 Jun 2023 | 36
CRM giant Salesforce's focus on margins sees sales growth slip After activist investor pressure and job losses, professional services projects struggle SaaS01 Jun 2023 | 1
Get ready, Snowflakes: Azure AI is coming for you with one click Ingest, integrate... and imprison SaaS01 Jun 2023 | 6
Salesforce boss Benioff scores payday of nearly $30m amid cost cutting Average employee got $199k, changes afoot to exec compensation SaaS28 Apr 2023 | 4
Microsoft tackles SaaSy URL sprawl, dumping its dotcom in favor of cloud.microsoft Promises more cross-product links, better security, and easier admin – for you and Redmond’s own crew SaaS27 Apr 2023 | 23
Where are we now – Microsoft 363? Cloud suite suffers another outage Final update Some customers unable to use the search function for online services like Teams and Outlook SaaS24 Apr 2023 | 20
Microsoft not a Teams player as admin center, 365 service suffer partial outage Final update It’s not the caching. There’s no way it’s the caching. It was the caching SaaS20 Apr 2023 | 22
Microsoft switches gears, keeps Exchange Online's CARs around until Sept 2024 At least Redmond listens to some customers SaaS10 Apr 2023 | 1
Activist investor Elliott holds off board-level influence at Salesforce Benioff gets a pat on the head and an undefined reprieve SaaS27 Mar 2023 | 3
Microsoft dips Teams in the metaverse vat with avatars ahead Can't be bothered with cam? Replace yourself with a 3D diligent worker SaaS15 Mar 2023 | 29
Salesforce latest to sprinkle ChatGPT on itself, will ask language models to write code Collaboration with OpenAI tech also threatens AI-generated sales emails, Slack messages, customer Q&As SaaS07 Mar 2023 | 8
Salesforce banks savings by sweating tech infrastructure for an extra year Revenue rocks, but boosting margins means five year old servers and four year old PCs SaaS02 Mar 2023 | 8
Salesforce under investor pressure to dump more staff Promised 10,000 cull unlikely to be enough to satisfy gaggle of activist investors SaaS27 Feb 2023 | 6
Google staff asked to share desk space in latest cost purge From free massage therapy and on-site gyms to alternating desk days with fellow Googlers SaaS23 Feb 2023 | 57
Salesforce woes continue as Twitter slashes spending with SaaS supermonster Performance improvement plans and prompt exit packages in the offing SaaS15 Feb 2023 | 9
No more rockstars, say Billy Idol, Joan Jett in Workday Super Bowl ad Blast 'corporate' types who are much more square than $5.14 billion HR corp SaaS10 Feb 2023 | 40
Microsoft injects AI into Teams so no one will ever forget what the meeting decided In the virtual corporate world, slackers have nowhere to hide SaaS02 Feb 2023 | 61
Salesforce refreshes board as activist investors circle Slack said to be worth fraction of price paid, new hires not as productive amid downturn SaaS30 Jan 2023 | 6
Changes afoot at Salesforce after activist investor Elliott takes a decisive slice It is 'never a good sign when Elliott shows up' says analyst of fund manager whose reputation precedes it SaaS23 Jan 2023 | 12
IBM top brass accused again of using mainframes to prop up Watson, cloud sales Special report Securities fraud lawsuit reloaded SaaS18 Jan 2023 | 38
Security tech chief quits Salesforce as list of top-table departures grows CRM slinger's annus horribilis continues as 'father of SSL' departs for VC fund SaaS12 Jan 2023 | 2
Salesforce: There's no more Slack left to cut Opinion SaaS CRM slinger blamed the pandemic for 10% workforce cull, but scattergun M&A strategy hasn't helped SaaS10 Jan 2023 | 23