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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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Avalara nabs nearly $1B in debt securities to fuel growing tax compliance software business

GeekWire

The money will be used to fuel the company’s compliance automation software that helps more than 30,000 companies across 95 countries manage their sales and other types of taxes. Avalara said last week that it added $959.9 Customers include companies such as Zillow, Pinterest, Converse, Roku, Thule, and others. .

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets.

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How copyright lawsuits could kill OpenAI

Vox

This generation’s big copyright battle is pitting journalists against artificially intelligent software that has learned from and can regurgitate their reporting. The New York Times claims that OpenAI trained its model with copyrighted Times content and did not pay proper licensing fees.

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Tech Moves: Top Blue Origin engineer joins SpaceX; Axon hires HTC Vive exec; Porch adds to board

GeekWire

Eby has been succeeded by Morgan Hellar who originally joined WRF in 2004 as a license administrator for the organization’s patent portfolio. Seattle startup Panda uses natural language processing for its account management software. Former WRF CEO Ron Howell also retired in April after 29 years. Saty Bahadur.

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The state of social networking software for the enterprise - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

In 2003 there were three major vendors of social networking platforms for the enterprise: Spoke , VisiblePath , and Contact Networks , while Interface Software integrated similar functionality into its CRM application InterAction (since bought by Lexis-Nexis). VisiblePath has now come to attention, as next week at Web 2.0

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Microsoft enters enterprise social network software - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

This squarely puts Microsoft into a space – enterprise social network software – that has previously been populated by Spoke , Visible Path , Contact Networks , and Tacit. Unquestionably, good software, well-implemented, can be a powerful enabler. See some screenshots here. However business processes and culture need to shift too.

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