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Google and Dell team up to take on Microsoft with Chromebook Enterprise laptops

Google is launching new Chromebook Enterprise devices that it hopes will draw more businesses away from Windows-powered laptops. Microsoft has dominated enterprise computing for years, but as businesses increasingly look to modernize their fleet of devices, there’s an opportunity for competitors to challenge Windows. Google is teaming up with one of Microsoft’s biggest partners, Dell,

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India's BharatPe, which helps merchants accept digital payments and secure working capital, raises $50M Series B led by Ribbit Capital and Steadview Capital (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: India’s BharatPe, which helps merchants accept digital payments and secure working capital, raises $50M Series B led by Ribbit Capital and Steadview Capital  —  BharatPe, a New Delhi-based firm that is enabling hundreds of thousands of merchants to start accepting digital payments … India's BharatPe, which helps merchants accept digital payments

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Versatile Natures, which uses AI to improve construction processes, raises $5.5M in seed funding, led by Robert Bosch Venture Capital (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Versatile Natures, which uses AI to improve construction processes, raises $5.5M in seed funding, led by Robert Bosch Venture Capital  —  Versatile Natures, a startup using machine learning and AI to improve construction processes, has raised $5.5 million in seed funding. Versatile Natures, which uses AI to improve construction

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Groups360, a booking engine for meeting spaces founded in 2014, raises $50M from Marriott International, IHG, Accor, and Hilton, bringing total raised to ~$55M (Andrew Sheivachman/Skift)

Andrew Sheivachman / Skift: Groups360, a booking engine for meeting spaces founded in 2014, raises $50M from Marriott International, IHG, Accor, and Hilton, bringing total raised to ~$55M  —  The hotel industry has had a tough time improving the painful process of selling event space and room blocks to meeting planners. Groups360, a booking engine

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Software development is broken — here’s how to fix it

{$inline_image}In the software industry, the product development cycle is broken. It’s costly. It’s laborious. And too often, product teams fail to meet their customers’ needs. And this is especially true in the business-to-business market. More than one in three “enterprise projects” — those solutions created for entire organizations, rather than individuals — come in over

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Interview with CEO of Razer, a gaming PC maker with 70M registered user accounts, which has steadily increased its share of revenue from software and services (Chua Kong Ho/South China Morning Post)

Chua Kong Ho / South China Morning Post: Interview with CEO of Razer, a gaming PC maker with 70M registered user accounts, which has steadily increased its share of revenue from software and services  —  Gaming company Razer reported a narrower loss in the first six months CEO Min-Liang Tan says Razer is a gateway

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Australia’s plan to block sites hosting extremist content during crisis events seems flawed

As countries continue to grapple with the rise of online extremism, Australia is taking its first step by cutting off access to any internet domain that hosts terrorist material during a crisis event. In addition to temporary bans, the government is reportedly considering legislation to force digital platforms to improve the safety of their services. Popular

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J.P. Morgan Chase says it will shut down its digital wallet app, Chase Pay, in early 2020, but will continue pushing the Chase Pay button in apps and on the web (Yun Li/CNBC)

Yun Li / CNBC: J.P. Morgan Chase says it will shut down its digital wallet app, Chase Pay, in early 2020, but will continue pushing the Chase Pay button in apps and on the web  —  KEY POINTS  — The bank plans to add more retailers that accept Chase Pay through merchant apps including food

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Moonday Mornings: Binance to give KYC hack victims VIP accounts

Welcome to Moonday Mornings. Let’s not waste anytime, here’s the weekend’s top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines you can’t afford to miss. 1. With every passing week the outlook for Facebook’s ‘cryptocurrency’ Libra looks worse and worse. After meeting with Suisse financial regulators last week concerns still remain for representatives of the US Financial Services Committee.

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Founder of Spiderweb, which has been making indie games for 25+ years, explains the business and design reasons for still making games with a retro, quirky look (Jeff Vogel/The Bottom Feeder)

Jeff Vogel / The Bottom Feeder: Founder of Spiderweb, which has been making indie games for 25+ years, explains the business and design reasons for still making games with a retro, quirky look  —  We spent years working on this game.  We’re betting our family’s future on it.  So.  Why does it look so bad?

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