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SaaS Product Updates

• Google raises G Suite prices from 0.4 Microsofts to 0.5 Microsofts. The cloud-productivity-suite wars continue.

• Whew, FINALLY I can get Office 365 from the Mac App store. My long wait is over!

• I suppose it’s not a good sign that Apple cut 200 people from its autonomous car division… but maybe it’s good news if you work in trucking or other forms of driving.

Tips and Tricks

• Want to see some popular machine learning and data science projects on GitHub? Have they got a nice blog post with stats for you.

• And now for something totally inexplicable: NetSuite shares Valentines promotion ideas for your restaurant. For some reason, the Internet has made me so cynical I expected it to be a joke blog post.

• How to create a travel and expense policy in 3 minutes, from Concur. That just about confirms for me how much thought goes into travel and expense policies (sometimes – don’t worry Karen in accounting, we’re still buds!)

Security

• “Hey, how’d you configure the server storing all the sensitive financial documents we digitized for all our customers? You didn’t expose it to the public web, did you?” 24M records this time

• Headlines that scare normal people but just make cyber pros sigh slightly harder than usual, #4,523 “Securonix report outlines the threat posed by automated multi-vector, multi-platform attacks against cloud infrastructure.”

• Headlines that should scare anyone, #3,689: “Business failing to see strategic value of cyber security” Probably the same, “eh, breaches are just inevitable” crowd

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