Information Technology
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Microsoft introduces Slack rival to lure business-chat users
Nov 05, 2016 7:19 am - Microsoft Corp. unveiled a corporate team-chat service that works with its cloud-based Office and Skype products, aiming to take on Slack Technologies Inc. and Atlassian...
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Cross-country trips in electric cars are about to get easier
Nov 05, 2016 7:18 am - President Barack Obama is making it a little easier for electric car owners to make cross-country drives. The White House said Thursday that it's officially designating ...
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Angel investing boom fuels conflict in clubby Silicon Valley
Nov 05, 2016 7:18 am - Oracle Corp.'s biggest cloud-computing takeover is in peril, partly the result of an investment made by Larry Ellison 18 years ago in what was then a little-known startu...
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Instagram experiments with mobile shopping
Nov 05, 2016 7:15 am - For a week in May, some of Instagram's designers, engineers and product managers met not at the company's Menlo Park, California, headquarters but at a rented house, sto...
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App review: Masky
Nov 05, 2016 7:13 am - Players of Masky have been invited to run a masquerade ball, and they have only one objective: Keep the dancers balanced. As the master of Masky, you'll be asked to coll...
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MacBook Pro review: Touch Bar is cool, but will you use it?
Nov 05, 2016 7:12 am - Two seconds into using Apple's Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro, and I'm in love. The new touch-sensitive control bar, a second display that will display different controls ...
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Wall Street coders wanted, elite college degrees not necessary
Nov 05, 2016 7:11 am - For almost five years, Gregory Furlong worked 50-hour weeks as a shipping clerk at a Best Buy two miles from his childhood home in Wilmington, Delaware. It was a kind of...
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'Mafia III' took a risk with a black protagonist; it's really paid off
Nov 05, 2016 7:00 am - When the developers of latest version of the “Mafia” franchise revealed their protagonist last summer, they surprised a lot of people with a very risky decision. Not onl...
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Paylocity fiscal 1Q revenues up 44 percentNov 04, 2016 1:00 am - ARLINGTON HEIGHTS - Paylocity Holding Corp. reported a 44 percent increase in revenue for the first quarter of fiscal year 2016, supported primarily through its repeat c...
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Benefitexpress names three executives, unveils new websiteNov 04, 2016 1:00 am - SCHAUMBURG - Employee benefits and health exchange services company benefitexpress has made a number of changes as a result of its recent acquisition of benefitsCONNECT,...