A snapshot of links shared on my Twitter account @WinObs for today
- The Los Angeles Downtown News is sold to Southland Publishing, an L.A.-based media group specializing in newsweeklies and magazines (Los Angeles Downtown News)
- Boeing OKs buyouts for 1,805 union workers, and more job cuts are expected
- Top Brands Are Moving Advertising Dollars to Influencer Marketing
- How “Game Mode” will make games run better on Windows
- Are You Migrating To OneDrive For Business Or Not
- How Losses of Federal Open Data Could Affect IT and Businesses
- Snap closes first day of trading at $24.51 per share, 44% above original price of $17, valuing the company at around $34B (Wall Street Journal)
- Chrome OS Continues to Make Gains in US Education Sector
- Gmail for Android Update Brings Exchange Task Support
- Mashable Studios creates a new position, vice president of programming and development, in Los Angeles and hires Polly Auritt, most recently of Fullscreen (Todd SpanglerVariety)
- Beam is boosting social streaming with Interactive 2.0 later this month
- Meet your #GoogleAssistant
- Microsoft Remote Desktop Services Management Pack for System Center 2016
- The Need for Many Strings on Your Bow
- Windows 10 Build 15043 for Mobile Goes Slow and ISOs Released for PC Build 15042
- Forget Email, Wormholes Are Connecting Workers Across the Globe
- Comparison of Standard and Datacenter editions of Windows Server 2016
- Hands-on with the new Nintendo Switch and ‘Zelda Breath of the Wild’
- Amazon pledges to cover 15 massive warehouse rooftops with solar panels
- Amazon establishes Alexa Fund Fellowship to support universities researching voice technology
- Get more work done on Android Exchange Tasks now available on Gmail app
- Improve disaster protection with Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner, now in public preview
- Even in an age of nearly-real-time news, big stories still often break in the evening because of newspaper print deadlines (Adrienne LaFranceThe Atlantic)
- Six tips to make your photos pop
- Power BI Service February Feature Summary
- As tensions grow over Snap’s presence in Venice Beach, company expands in Seattle
- Join the first-ever Azure AD ‘Ask Me Anything’ session, coming March 9
- Corrine Chorney Windows Insider MVP and Security Specialist
- NASCAR, Anime Month | This Week On Windows
- A year after returning to Earth, astronaut Scott Kelly reflects on lessons learned from 340 days in space
- Expanded Microsoft Accessibility website launches; KNFB Reader available for Windows 10
- NASA Highlights Science on Next Commercial Resupply Mission to International Space Station
- Docker unveils new enterprise initiative, boosting software containers for big businesses
- Developers Xbox Live Creators Program launches with Insider Preview
- Developers – Microsoft Wants More Desktop Programs in the Windows Store as Universal Windows Platform Apps
- Viber, after putting Windows 10 Mobile development on hold, just released an app update anyway
- This Japanese developer is doing amazing stuff in HoloLens with “HoleLenz Gate”
- Schools in Sweden have made Chromebooks nummer ett (number one)!
- Special delivery with Google Maps APIs