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Unify Square, a startup that helps businesses implement Skype for Business, secured another $4 million in funding in a round led by Microsoft.
This brings the total of an extended Series B round that started in February to $12.2 million.
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The three-way merger between Charter Communications, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks, announced this morning, was rendered inevitable by the US Government’s reluctance to sanction a previous agreement between Time Warner and Comcast, citing its re-re-redefinition of Internet service under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934.
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A funny thing happened on Alcatel-Lucent’s way to breaking ground on its Rapport Communications-as-a-Service platform. To the surprise of many, even within the organization, it completed its under-the-radar negotiations with Nokia, in a deal which may bring the caretaker of Bell Labs under the wing of a newly
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A new round of competition has ignited a field that many considered all but dead just last year. Microsoft’s extension of Skype communications into the enterprise, replacing the Lync brand, and Cisco’s formal unveiling of Spark put unified communications (UC) back in the spotlight.
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New York City area commuters are still feeling aftershocks from the deadliest train accident in the history of the Metro-North Railroad.
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Knock us over with a feather: Video has gone mainstream in the enterprise. In a Wave released yesterday for Enterprise Video Platforms and Webcasting, Forrester Research describes video as an increasingly common channel for both internal communication with other employees and external communication with customers and partners.
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Microsoft claims it has a solution to some of the most common bring your own device (BYOD) concerns: A way to spy on enterprise workers. Through its Lync app, it's giving enterprises a way to monitor what devices workers are using to communicate. Lync Reporting According to Yanzhao Zhang, a program manager on the Lync
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Brazil lost to Germany 7-1 in the World Cup soccer semifinals Tuesday in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. That's like everyone getting food poisoning simultaneously at a convention to promote celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse's pasta sauce. It's the worst PR crisis you can imagine. Right on your home turf.
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Once you dig into the astonishing numbers for WhatsApp, you can kind of see why Facebook paid $19 billion for the company. Kind of.
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How big is your digital footprint? Think beyond the blog posts and Amazon reviews, social media status updates and Reddit comments. Your role in the digital world is more than the songs you download on iTunes, the movies you watch on Netflix and the photos you upload on Instagram.
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The idea is not necessarily to replace the social intranet, but to give corporate communications, and the people it is trying to reach, a voice that can't get lost in the stream.
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Marissa Mayer's company has been waving its checkbook again, adding yet more talent and technology as it continues to revamp and refocus on features. This week's acquisitions include photo app maker GhostBird and conference call company Rondee. Welcome to the Conference Hot on the heels of recent acquisitions of Summly back in March and
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Google's I/0 event keynote is in full swing with announcements for developers, gadget lovers and social media users. A cross-platform Hangouts app is one of the highlights, bringing its various communications apps together.
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"Attending these non-stop meetings, doing these status reports and using that awful time tracking system is killing my ability to do my job. Why is it that talking about doing my job is more important than actually doing my job?" Sound familiar? Are you the one saying these words? Are
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