According to an internal Microsoft memo obtained by The Verge, Microsoft employees will be allowed to work from home for less than half of their work week. Pending manager approval, some employees will be allowed to work from home full time. Even when stay-at-home measures for the coronavirus pandemic are lifted, Microsoft employees won’t be required...
Day: <span>12 October 2020</span>
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Discovery Bank CEO Adrian Gore explain what’s next for the Bank in South Africa
While it is difficult to launch a bank during a pandemic, everything is on track and the numbers look really good, says Discovery chief executive Adrian Gore. Gore, who was speaking in an interview with Aki Anastasiou as part of MyBroadband’s What’s Next in Finance series, says that Discovery Bank has been on the market for just...
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Covid-19 Lockdown Has Led Roommates to Turn to each other for Hookups – Says Study
Everyone wants to know how the COVID-19 lockdown and the attendant social distancing guidelines have impacted our love lives, and the results from Match’s latest “Singles in America” study are eye-opening. to say the least. It turns out that nearly a quarter of people who had sex during the lockdown did so with the most readily available person around: a “non-romantic roommate.” Under...
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The FM Adfocus Awards has announced its shortlist for 2020
After three juries with four jury sessions the AdFocus Awards 2020 shortlist has been decided. This year the main jury sessions were a hybrid with both a physical sitting simultaneously to a virtual one for those who could not physically attend. “It felt like we did not miss a beat. On the jurors’ part that...
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YouTube Black Voices Fund for SA Artists and Creators – They can Apply Now
YouTube has announced that South African artists and creators can apply for grants from its Black Voices Fund. The global $100m fund will, over the next three years, offer support to Black artists and creators so that they can thrive on YouTube. Interested artists and creators can apply for funding here. The Black Voices Fund, says Alex...
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Twilio to buy cloud customer data startup Segment for $3 billion
Cloud communications platform provider Twilio Inc plans to buy customer data infrastructure company Segment for $3.2 billion, Forbes reported on Friday. The deal, which had not been finalized as of Friday afternoon, was expected to be at least partially based on Twilio stock, the report added, citing two sources it did not name. San Francisco-based...