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☆ Insider Today: Big banks' cloudy forecast
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementIn today's big story, we're looking at why strong earnings results from some big banks weren't necessarily the big win markets were hoping for. The big storyTrouble brewingAdvertisementAdvertisementOn the surface, earnings season got off to a great start. And that could spell trouble for the broader market hoping for a banner earnings season to help it finish the year on a positive. AdvertisementAdvertisement"This may be the most dangerous time the world has seen in decades," he said in a press release announcing the bank's earnings. One market veteran predicts stocks will rally for the final stretch of the year due to a strong earnings season.

Persons: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Wells, Jamie Dimon, Dimon, Julian Restrepo, Emmalyse Brownstein, Mark Mason, JPMorgan's, Teresa Heitsenrether, Goldman Sachs, Jane Fraser, Fraser, Michael Siluk, there's, Walter Isaacson, Justin Sullivan, Tim Mosenfelder, Elon, Tyler Le, Noah Webster, He's, Naomi Osaka, Angela Lansbury, Sue Bird, Oscar Wilde, Bryce Harper, Dan DeFrancesco, Naga Siu, Hallam Bullock, Lisa Ryan Organizations: Tech, JPMorgan, Citigroup, AP, Citi, Barclays, Suisse, New York Department of Labor, Getty, Wedbush Securities, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft, Consumers, PETA, Dairy Summit Locations: Ukraine, Israel, Chicago, New York City, San Diego, London, New York

☆ Gen Z doesn't know how to write emails. AI is coming to Outlook, so it might help.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A new Microsoft AI tool could make up for the soft skills that some managers say Gen Z lacks . Microsoft 365 Copilot will us AI to help users write better emails, the company says. AdvertisementAdvertisementCompanies that use Microsoft Outlook for correspondence are getting an AI-powered tool that will help draft emails beginning next month. Some managers have complained about their supposedly lazy Gen Z workers, who they need to be supervised all day to ensure they're keeping up with their tasks. ResumeBuilder.com surveyed more than 1,300 US managers in April, and most of them said that Gen Z is the "most challenging generation" to work with.

Persons: —, Copilot, ResumeBuilder.com, Cherie Gartner, there's, It's Organizations: Microsoft, Service, KPMG, Visa, General Motors, Lumen Technologies, CNN

☆ Microsoft to widely offer an AI feature into outlook that can write emails for you
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Jennifer Korn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Artificial intelligence could soon be writing more company emails in Microsoft Outlook, as the company expands its rollout of AI tools for corporate users. The Microsoft 365 Copilot tool – “your everyday AI companion,” as the company bills it – will help users write their emails to “keep your sentences concise and error-free.” The tool also summarizes long email threads to quickly draft suggested replies. Users with Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscriptions will get more advanced AI help through Microsoft Editor, an intelligent writing assistant. The initial wave of attention on the tool helped renew an arms race among tech companies to develop and deploy similar AI tools in their products. Microsoft rival Google, for example, has also brought AI to its productivity tools, including Gmail, Sheets and Docs.

Persons: OpenAI Organizations: New, New York CNN, Microsoft, Visa, General Motors, KPMG, Lumen Technologies, Excel, Google, Gmail Locations: New York

Aug 15 (Reuters) - Abnormal Security, an AI-powered email security startup, said it has crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue, meeting a milestone for software companies as it eyes an eventual initial public offering, the company told Reuters. It also hired former Forescout chief executive Michael DeCesare as its president and Maya Marcus as its chief people officer. Evan Reiser, chief executive at Abnormal, said the company will continue to invest in products and get ready to be a public company as the market for initial public offerings (IPOs) improve, without specifying the timeline. Abnormal Security last raised $210 million in May 2022 at a valuation of $4 billion from investors including Insight Partners and Greylock Partners. Now more than ever, we need AI solutions to protect against AI threats," said Asheem Chandna, a partner at Abnormal investor Greylock.

Persons: Michael DeCesare, Maya Marcus, Evan Reiser, Reiser, DeCesare, Asheem Chandna, Krystal Hu, Lincoln Organizations: Reuters, Insight Partners, Greylock Partners, Microsoft, Xerox, Mattel, Thomson Locations: Europe, Japan, U.S, cybersecurity, New York

☆ Here's the new default font for Microsoft Outlook and Word: Aptos
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Microsoft has named the next default font for its productivity applications, such as Word and Outlook, after testing five candidates it introduced in 2021. Aptos will remain available in the font list under the old Bierstadt name for people who are accustomed to it. In 2019, Microsoft asked font designer Steve Matteson to develop a font in the grotesque sans-serif style that includes the classic Helvetica. The company didn't let on that it was considering it as a possible successor for Calibri, Matteson said in an interview with CNBC this week. Some people didn't take the name seriously, and Microsoft decided to come up with a new one for the font, Matteson said.

Persons: Si Daniels, Satya Nadella, Steve Ballmer, Steve Matteson, Calibri, Matteson, didn't, Aptos, He's, hasn't, Lucas de Groot Organizations: Microsoft, CNBC, Monotype, redwoods Locations: Nadella, Colorado, Santa Cruz County , California, California, Bierstadt

☆ Microsoft Outlook users hit with Monday morning outage
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Employee Monitoring and Surveillance
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +50 min

Ensuring Employee Safety and Systems SecurityEmployers may use electronic workplace monitoring and surveillance to protect their:Worksites. Potential Liability for Electronic Workplace Monitoring and SurveillanceEmployers that engage in electronic workplace monitoring and surveillance must comply with various federal and state laws, including:The Wiretap Act. Best Practices for Electronic Workplace Monitoring and SurveillanceTo avoid violating relevant state and federal laws, before conducting workplace monitoring and surveillance, employers should:Consider the purpose and appropriate scope of their monitoring and surveillance activities and what methods will help them achieve their objectives. Determine the Purpose of Workplace Monitoring and SurveillanceBefore conducting any workplace monitoring or surveillance, best practice is for employers to identify the purpose and goals of these activities to:Ensure that there is a legitimate business purpose for the planned monitoring and surveillance activities. Determine the scope of monitoring and surveillance necessary to accomplish the business purpose, and conduct only the minimum monitoring and surveillance necessary to meet that business need.

☆ Microsoft Outlook back up for most users after outage
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Feb 7 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) Outlook was back up for most users, the company said on Tuesday, after an hours-long outage disrupted the email service application for users primarily in North America. The company said it had identified a recent change that might have caused issues within Outlook.com, without giving further details. The outage comes shortly after Microsoft's cloud platform, Azure, faced disruptions, taking down services such as Teams and Microsoft 365 used by millions around the globe. Many users took to Twitter to share updates and memes about the service disruption, with #Microsoft365 trending as a hashtag on the social media site. Reporting by Sneha Bhowmik and Akriti Sharma in Bengaluru; Additional reporting by Maria Ponnezhath; Editing by Dhanya Ann Thoppil and Anil D'SilvaOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Microsoft Outlook experiences widespread outage
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Rob Mclean | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), Salesforce Inc (CRM.N) and ServiceNow Inc (NOW.N), which have large cloud businesses, fell about 1% each. The S&P 500 technology index (.SPLRCT) shed 1.3%. Other major growth stocks, including Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) and Tesla Inc (TSLA.O), also dropped between 0.4% and 3%. News Corp (NWSA.O) jumped 6.1%, leading gains on the S&P 500, after Rupert Murdoch withdrew a proposal to reunite News Corp and Fox Corp. The S&P index recorded two new 52-week highs and one new low, while the Nasdaq recorded 45 new highs and 25 new lows.

☆ FEC dismisses RNC complaint that Google’s spam filters were biased against conservatives
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Washington CNN —The Federal Election Commission has tossed out claims by the Republican National Committee that Google’s spam filters in Gmail are illegally biased against conservatives, according to an agency letter obtained by CNN. In its letter, the FEC cited Google’s public statements claiming that its reasons for spam filtering include blocking malware, phishing attacks and scams. The study by North Carolina State University researchers had involved an experiment testing the spam filters of Gmail, Microsoft Outlook and Yahoo! Meanwhile, a separate RNC lawsuit against Google over the same Gmail filtering issue is still ongoing. And Google has continued with an FEC-approved pilot project that allows political campaigns to bypass Gmail’s spam filters.

☆ A startup building software to encrypt messaging tools such as Slack just raised $11 million from Molten Ventures. Check out the 17-slide pitch deck Worldr used to secure the round.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Tasmin Lockwood | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A startup building encryption software to secure business communications on Slack and Teams just raised $11 million. London-based startup Worldr has built an additional layer of "zero-trust" infrastructure offering security, privacy, and compliance for business communication apps. As the company scaled into new markets, it became a highly regulated business, Buchan told Insider. This means that despite using Slack or Teams for business communications, those companies can't access the customer's data. The company has built integrations for Microsoft Teams, Slack, and WhatsApp, and has Microsoft Outlook in the works.

Компания-разработчик одного из самых известных компьютерных антивирусов сообщила об опасной вредоносной программе, которая получает личные данные пользователей ПК или смартфонов через фейковые видеоролики о коронавирусе. Международная компания по информационной безопасности, работающая на пространстве стран Европы и СНГ, сообщила о всплеске активности банковского вируса-"трояна" Grandoreiro на фоне пандемии COVID-19. Ранее Grandoreiro распространялся в основном при помощи спама через фейковые обновления Java или Flash. В настоящее время эксперты компании обнаружили, что он стал скрываться в видео на поддельных сайтах, обещающих предоставить секретные данные о коронавирусе. Также "червь" выясняет, установлено ли приложение для защиты доступа к онлайн-банкингу, получает список установленных продуктов безопасности.

Organizations: Java, Google Chrome Microsoft, Sputnik Moldova, Sputnik, Grandoreiro, Google, Microsoft Outlook, Telegram, Video, Radio Sputnik Moldova Locations: КИШИНЕВ, Европа, СНГ, Молдова

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