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Atlassian unveils Stride, the successor to chat app HipChat
Atlassian, the parent company of popular apps like Jira, Trello, and Bitbucket announced today a successor to its chat app HipChat, which is called Stride. HipChat is one of the most popular chat services in tech, used by industry giants including Tesla and Expedia. Facing competition from major offerings like Slack and Microsoft Teams, Atlassian rebuilt its chat app from the ground up, hoping to secure its foothold as the segment gets more crowded. The app sports an entirely redesigned interface, with a fresh look and less division between text chat, phone meetings, and videoconferencing.
"Right within Stride, any member can start a videoconference meeting for the members of a channel," Business Insider writes. "For the duration of that meeting, anybody who comes into the channel will be able to see that there's a call going on and be able to join."
Although HipChat and its competitors support video calls, the goal of Atlassian's newest offering is to make implementation of the feature more natural and less intrusive. Users are also able to take public notes within the app while on a call, allowing collaborative tasking and note-taking.
The announcement comes less than a week before Slack holds its first-ever user conference in San Francisco, likely intending to reduce hype and redirect focus to its new app.
Equifax experiences data breach, 209,000 credit cards may have been stolen
Equifax Credit Bureau, which supplies credit reports and other services, said today a cybersecurity breach may have leaked information on 143 million consumers. The leaked data includes 209,000 credit cards, and the birth dates, social security numbers, addresses, and possibly drivers licenses of millions. Personal identifying information of roughly 182,000 consumers was also breached.
The company's CEO Richard Smith apologized to consumers and customers, saying that the breach "strikes at the heart of who we are and what we do."
"Equifax said it is now alerting customers whose information was included in the breach via mail, and is working with state and federal authorities," CNBC writes. "Its private investigation into the breach is complete."
Adobe and Microsoft announce expanded partnership
Representatives from Adobe and Microsoft have announced today it will expand its partnership with more integrations between the two companies' platforms. Microsoft now considers Adobe Sign its "preferred" e-signature service across Office 365 and Dynamic 365, and Microsoft Teams is now the "preferred" collaboration service for Adobe Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, and Experience Cloud. Adobe has also selected Microsoft's Azure as its "preferred" hosting platform for Adobe Sign.
While these services may be "preferred," the agreement is not actually exclusive, and when Adobe announced Azure was its "preferred" cloud provider last year, it continued hosting some of its services on Amazon's AWS, and continues to do so.
"In the fall of 2016, the pair said that Adobe Creative Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Document Cloud would all be available on Azure, and Azure would be the "preferred cloud platform" for these services," ZDNet writes. "The two companies also announced that Adobe's Marketing Cloud would be Microsoft's Marketing module for the Enterprise version of Dynamics 365, its combined CRM/ERP suite."
The two companies also say they are planning to work in tandem on machine learning and intelligent document automation, which they say will be implemented into most facets of both platforms.
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But there's more going on in the world than that.
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Amazon is looking for the location of its next headquarters
Amazon has asked for bids from local and state governments, and hopes to receive proposals from prospective locations in which it could build its new headquarters. The company intends the second location to be equal in size and importance to its massive Seattle tower, saying that it expects to invest more than $5 billion in the location and employ as many as 50,000 employees.
Mayors from cities including Memphis, Chicago, Philadelphia, Hartford, Tulsa, St. Louis, and Providence have expressed interest, with many more likely to follow suit. Several cities in Texas are also likely to be considered, as will as major Canadian cities like Vancouver.
"We expect HQ2 to be a full equal to our Seattle headquarters," Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in a statement. "Amazon HQ2 will bring billions of dollars in up-front and ongoing investments, and tens of thousands of high-paying jobs."
Amazon says the average compensation at the new location could top $100,000, and development is likely to begin in 2019.
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Delta passengers get a bumpy ride as their plane flies right through Hurricane Irma
Delta flight DJ302 took off from San Juan, Puerto Rico Wednesday afternoon before flying right through one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in history. Shocking, terrifying, and extremely dangerous, right? According to WIRED and the commercial airline pilots they spoke to, flying through most storms is just another day at the office.
According to experts, it would have been more dangerous and costly to leave the plane on the ground or in the hangar. Officials on the ground elected not to turn the plane away as it was approaching San Juan to land, and after much deliberation, decided to race the storm and get the plane back to safer conditions. Once in the air, highly trained pilots don't find hurricanes to be a significant challenge to fly in.
"The flight might have been bumpy for about 15 minutes, a bit rainy and a bit dark," WIRED writes. "For the seasoned traveler, conditions like that are probably NBD."
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