Monthly Archives: October 2022

Microsoft Office will become Microsoft 365 in major brand overhaul

Image: Microsoft Microsoft is making a major change to its Microsoft Office branding. After more than 30 years, Microsoft Office is being renamed “Microsoft 365” to mark the software giant’s collection of growing productivity apps. While Office apps like Excel, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint aren’t going away, Microsoft will now mostly refer to these apps…

Zen Educate, a marketplace that matches schools with teachers, raises $21M to fuel U.S. expansion

Zen Educate, an online marketplace that algorithmically matches schools with the best available teachers, has raised £19.3 million ($21 million) in a Series A extension round of funding. Founded out of London in 2017, Zen Educate is setting out to supplant the traditional approach to recruiting teachers, a system that typically involves third-party agencies and…

Apple Debuts ‘Ask Apple’ Interactive Q&A Program for Developers

Apple today introduced a new “Ask Apple” feature that is designed to allow developers to get help with app development from Apple engineers and experts. With Ask Apple, developers can get information on implementing new beta features, updates introduced at WWDC, adopting Dynamic Island, swapping to SwiftUI, and more. Developers will be able to ask…

Open finance startup Ayoconnect’s APIs enable financial inclusion in Southeast Asia

Focused on Southeast Asia, Ayoconnect’s APIs make it faster for businesses to launch new financial services, instead of needing to build their own tech infrastructure. It is also licensed by Indonesia’s central bank, enabling it to offer more services. The open finance startup announced today it has closed a $13 million Series B extension round…

A Trump aide was caught on security camera moving boxes from a Mar-a-Lago storage room before and after the DOJ subpoenaed Trump for top-secret documents: NYT

Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images Walt Nauta, a longtime Trump aide, was seen moving boxes out from a storage room the FBI searched. The incidents were caught on security footage, The New York Times reported. Nauta was seen moving boxes before and after the DOJ demanded top-secret files be returned in…

An Oath Keeper admitted the group stockpiled a stash of guns in a Virginia hotel room before the Capitol riot

An Oath Keeper from Idaho in Bozeman, Montana. William Campbell/Corbis via Getty Images Oath Keeper Terry Cummings took the stand to testify in the trial of Stewart Rhodes and four militia members. Cummings said he brought an AR-15 and a box of ammunition and kept it in a Virginia hotel room. Cummings told the jury…