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Office 365 is now generally available in China, as Microsoft increases its focus on the country

Apr20
by on April 20, 2014 at 5:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia

Microsoft has continued to increase its focus on China after it announced the full launch of Office 365 in the country. The move comes a month after its Azure cloud computing platform became generally available there, and six months after the local version of Skype was relaunched. Both Azure and Office 365 are being operated by Microsoft’s Chinese business partner 21Vianet. The two services launched in China in preview simultaneously back in November 2012. Now that Office 365 is generally available, local versions of Office, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Lync Online – running on China-based servers — are open to all customers across…

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General Mills reverses new legal policy: Yes, you can like our Facebook Pages and sue us

Apr20
by on April 20, 2014 at 4:23 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

General Mills, one of the world’s largest food companies, made headlines when the New York Times reported that its new legal terms meant those who liked Facebook pages belonging to its brands, bought a product or interacted in other ways waived their right to take legal action against it. Now, days later, it is reverting to its original privacy policy and claiming it was all a big misunderstanding. “Those [new] terms – and our intentions – were widely misread, causing concern among consumers. So we’ve listened – and we’re changing them back to what they were before,” a company blog post, which…

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General Mills reverses new legal policy: Yes, you can like our Facebook Pages and sue us

Apr20
by on April 20, 2014 at 4:23 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

General Mills, one of the world’s largest food companies, made headlines when the New York Times reported that its new legal terms meant those who liked Facebook pages belonging to its brands, bought a product or interacted in other ways waived their right to take legal action against it. Now, days later, it is reverting to its original privacy policy and claiming it was all a big misunderstanding. “Those [new] terms – and our intentions – were widely misread, causing concern among consumers. So we’ve listened – and we’re changing them back to what they were before,” a company blog post, which…

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The one question budding entrepreneurs should always ask themselves

Apr20
by on April 20, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Anthony Del Monte is the CEO and founder of Squeaky Wheel Media, a Web design and development agency based in NYC. Most entrepreneurs can pinpoint the exact moment when they decided to stop working on their potential business plan and to start working on their actual business. Chances are, many of those moments came after the ever-present (but often-ignored) question: “What next”? For me, this moment was years ago, when the second plane flew over my head on September 11th. I cannot describe that feeling, and this isn’t the forum to try, but I remember needing an answer to “What next?”…

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The one question budding entrepreneurs should always ask themselves

Apr20
by on April 20, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Anthony Del Monte is the CEO and founder of Squeaky Wheel Media, a Web design and development agency based in NYC. Most entrepreneurs can pinpoint the exact moment when they decided to stop working on their potential business plan and to start working on their actual business. Chances are, many of those moments came after the ever-present (but often-ignored) question: “What next”? For me, this moment was years ago, when the second plane flew over my head on September 11th. I cannot describe that feeling, and this isn’t the forum to try, but I remember needing an answer to “What next?”…

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