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Microsoft is moving its Windows franchise from the center of its operations, reorganizing its business around its growing Azure cloud-computing operations and its stalwart Office productivity business.

A Facebook executive said a recently surfaced memo that he wrote in 2016 was intended to provoke debate about the social network’s relentless pursuit of growth.

Tesla acknowledged its semiautonomous system Autopilot was engaged by the driver in the seconds before a fatal crash last week, raising more questions about the safety of self-driving technology on public roads.

Uber Technologies said it will shutter a same-day parcel and package delivery service called Rush that once was viewed as a viable threat to everything from FedEx to small couriers.

Warc estimates $63.4 billion was spent in 2017 on worldwide programmatic ad platforms, but only about 40% got to the “working media level” — indicating a “tech tax” of close to $30 billion. But this
doesn’t include assumption of fraud.

Foxconn Technology posted a better-than-expected 4% rise in fourth-quarter net profit, bouncing back after its biggest customer Apple overcame earlier production troubles for the iPhone X.

Like many college graduates, Adobe’s CMO, Ann Lewnes, graduated, did an internship but couldn’t find a job. So, she moved to California and 30 years later, she’s now a top executive at Adobe, where at the company’s annual Adobe Summit, she interviews all types of celebrities and explains many of the company’s newest products. Adweek…

The awesome thing about April Fools’ Day in the digital age is that you’re less likely to worry about finding tacks scattered on your favorite chair or some buffoon whipping out a whoopie cushion. The best gags are bound to happen online, where we can review them with the amused distance of fake news connoisseurs…

The U.S. Census Bureau is planning to ask everyone living in the United States whether they are citizens when it conducts its next decennial census in 2020.

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