This week's news includes -
Microsoft partnership with Adobe to build a signature product around Microsoft Teams and Adobe
Atlassian launches its competitor Slack
Spotify and Hulu partner to offer a student-first entertainment package
Instagram tests new feature to send stories directly to Facebook
Samsung announces a bug bounty program
Weibo brings night mode option to desktop (finally)
That's great news, we've got the right coverage, so without any further delay, let's walk in.
Microsoft works with Adobe partners to build around the Adobe logo and Microsoft product teams
Microsoft went after Slack when it announced a fairly similar service called Teams. Team is a team communication product independently developed by Microsoft. On the other hand Slack already has a strong hold in specific markets as it Latest Mailing Database offers many useful features like integration, which is pluggable functionality integrated into Slack to provide useful information from third parties. This week, Microsoft announced a partnership with Adobe in an attempt to make its products more profitable.
The deal will make Adobe the preferred e-signature solution for signing Microsoft Teams with other Microsoft services. This will serve as an integration in Office 365 and Dynamics 365. Transactions will also bring Adobe Login to Microsoft's workflow automation service, Microsoft Flow and the Microsoft Bot Framework, which enables users to ask bots about the status of the document approval process. The agreement is a two-way agreement, which means that not only will Adobe Register be the default and preferred e-signature solution, but the team will be used for Adobe Creative Cloud, cloud documents, and cloud-preferred collaboration services.
Launch of Atlassian, its homegrown Slack competitor
While Microsoft has doubled down on making Teams a well-deserved Slack competitor, developer Atlassian's company built its own version of the Teams messaging product and launched it this week. The product is called spanning. Atlassian has many, they are developed globally like Gila, Bitbucket favorite products. They recently acquired Trello to add productivity tools to their product suite. Spanning is a product of learning it from Atlassian over the years with HipChat built in. Thred will serve as a single tool, including messaging services, video and audio conferencing capabilities. These properties will enable steps to facilitate frictional sessions.
Unlike the Slack, the Stride has a more competitive price. The free version supports unlimited users, unlimited groups of audio and video robots and integration features. The green message storage limit is 25,000 If you decide to pay the $3 monthly fee, the cap will be removed. What sets the step slack action and decision function. The slack of actions and decisions to fix the problem has left users returning to the team after a long gap, not knowing what has been going on. Actions and decisions will allow others to put instructions about the group's decisions and actions, so when others return they don't have to dig through the entire archive to catch what's going on. It also comes with a pause notification across focus mode that will mark yours away.
Spotify and Hulu partner to offer a student-one entertainment bundle
Music streaming services like Spotify and Apple have saved the ire of music industry piracy. With a minimal subscription fee, you get unlimited songs at your fingertips. But for people on a budget like a student, it's still a luxury. To address this, Spotify and Hulu have entered into a partnership, offering bundled entertainment packages worth $4.99 in joint subscriptions.
The program will offer Spotify's premium students access to great TV content along with Hulu. There is no integration with the service technology. Users who opt for this bundle still use separate apps to access these services. Comes with a TV streaming company and is a first for Spotify. This will help them gain some experience before they expand their video service.
Instagram's testing feature to post stories directly to Facebook
Facebook has been working hard on bloating their app with a Snapchat feature clone. A few months ago, they added a story feature to their app without anyone asking for it, and while Instagram has had some success with stories, all the other apps pretty much carry the weight of this feature.
According to recent reports, in order to make Stories at least a little more available on the platform, Facebook is testing a feature that will let Instagram users post to Facebook directly from Instagram Stories. It would be interesting to see that the two apps have been pretty much isolated from each other in every way. Also, since Instagram already has more success selling Snapchat clones, it would make sense for the two apps to share content.
Samsung announces bug bounty program for hackers
In an attempt to make its products more secure, Samsung has just announced a bug bounty program offering up to $200,000 to people reporting vulnerabilities in its products. The program covers 38 Samsung mobile devices that are actively receiving updates from the company.
Some of these include the Galaxy S8, Note 8, Galaxy, Galaxy J and Galaxy Tab series. The company will reward those who find loopholes in Bixby, Samsung Pay and other services. The minimum due amount is $200, which rises depending on the severity of the error. This is not the first company to offer such a bounty. Microsoft, Facebook and Google actively run such boons.
Twitter is finally bringing night mode to the desktop
Victim of my dark mode/night mode. My heart aches when picking up the theme of Light when migrating Android from Holo to Material. I really like the kind of distraction-free dark mode offered. The mobile app of Twitter, one of my favorite social media apps offers a dark mode, which makes wasting time in the app way more comfortable at night.
For a long time, I've been accompanied by a lot of avid Twitter users who have had a wicked habit of not having night mode on desktop sites. This week our wish has been granted finally and everyone has applied night mode to the desktop. You can turn it on by tapping your profile photo, then selecting Night Mode from the options. enjoy your meal!