Neowin News Feed for: Business

The era of unlimited free AI is dead as Google and rivals slam the door shut

Paul Hill — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:00:01 +0000

Is your daily AI workflow about to get expensive? From aggressive new Google Gemini caps to paywalled coding assistants, here is why the age of unlimited free access is officially over. Read more...

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman calls site conversations the fuel for AI bots

Paul Hill — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:50:01 +0000

While tech giants spend billions on hardware, Reddit is profiting by licensing its "actual intelligence." Here is how the platform is winning the AI race. Read more...

Microsoft scraps free subscription grace period for new paid "EST" billing

Paul Hill — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:56:01 +0000

Microsoft partners can now review eligibility for the new Extended Service Terms. Find out how to avoid automatic bills before the April 1 deadline. Read more...

Larry Page leaves California to protect $12.5 billion from proposed wealth tax

Paul Hill — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:46:01 +0000

Google's co-founder has preemptively moved his multi-billion-dollar entities to Delaware. Is this the start of a major billionaire capital flight? Read more...

Microsoft and NVIDIA seek to help UK agentic AI businesses

Paul Hill — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 09:48:01 +0000

Microsoft has unveiled Agentic Launchpad with several partners to help Agentic AI firms in the UK and Ireland get to market. Read more...

ChatGPT can now connect to Outlook, Teams, Gmail, Google Drive, and other services

Pradeep Viswanathan — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 19:54:01 +0000

ChatGPT can now integrate with external services like Outlook, Teams, Gmail, and Google Drive to access real-time data for more relevant responses. Read more...

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Google Workspace increasing Gmail, Drive, and more prices but adds a lot of AI features

Paul Hill — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 06:54:01 +0000

Google Workspace has removed the need to buy an add-on for the AI features. While the baseline prices for Business and Enterprise users are up, it's cheaper than before if you purchased the add-on. Read more...

A third of AI projects will be abandoned by businesses by the end of next year

Paul Hill — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 07:14:01 +0000

Around 30% of generative AI projects will be abandoned by businesses by the end of 2025, Gartner has predicted, as they struggle to find a business use case for them, or find them too expensive. Read more...

Fujitsu and Cohere to build Japanese-language AI for businesses

Paul Hill — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 09:04:01 +0000

Fujitsu and Cohere have agreed to a strategic partnership, which will see them work together to deliver large language models for businesses and enterprises with a focus on privacy and security. Read more...

Amazon launches AWS App Studio to help businesses build apps with GenAI

Paul Hill — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 11:28:01 +0000

Amazon has launched AWS App Studio, a tool which lets businesses build low-code applications in minutes using natural language via generative AI software. Amazon said the code is highly secure. Read more...

Apple overtakes Microsoft to reclaim the title of the world's most valuable company, again

Steve Bennett — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:44:01 +0000

Following WWDC 2024's Apple Intelligence announcements, Apple's stock price continued to rise and overtook Microsoft to reclaim its position as the most valuable company in the world. Read more...

Some 6,000 satellites later, Musk's Starlink turns profitable in 2024, report estimates

Martin Hodás — Sat, 11 May 2024 20:40:01 +0000

SpaceX's Starlink service is estimated to generate billions in revenues and achieve profitability for the first time in 2024, just five years after launching the first batch of satellites. Read more...

Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade

Martin Hodás — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 22:24:01 +0000

In an apparent effort to boost revenues, gaming social media startup Discord plans to implement ads into its free service. The step is expected in the coming days after 9 years of ad-free experience. Read more...

Businesses can get up to speed with GitHub Copilot with new Learning Pathway

Paul Hill — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 00:54:01 +0000

GitHub has launched a new Learning Pathway for GitHub Copilot. It's for business leaders who'll choose whether to deploy this tool for their developers. GitHub is also working on an upcoming pathway. Read more...

Microsoft is chasing down Apple to get the honors of world's most valuable company

Martin Hodás — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 06:18:01 +0000

Apple's slower start to 2024 opened the doors for Redmond to take a shot at the prestigious position of the most valuable company in the world. However, the gap is still not insignificant. Read more...

Worldwide IT spending to grow 8% next year, says analyst firm

Paul Hill — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 09:48:02 +0000

Worldwide IT spending is set to grow by 8% next year according to the analyst firm Gartner. Cloud spending is set to be a big driver and spending on devices is predicted to increase too. Read more...

WhatsApp wants you to build a business around its new Channels feature

Paul Hill — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 08:38:01 +0000

WhatsApp has announced the availability of Channels in Colombia and Singapore. It will eventually bring them to more countries and allow you to build a business around your channels. Read more...

Samsung builds new Kiosk for businesses that runs Windows

Paul Hill — Tue, 16 May 2023 22:32:02 +0000

Samsung has unveiled the KMC-W kiosk. It's a version of the Samsung Kiosk for businesses that runs Windows. Its use of Windows should mean that it supports a wider variety of software. Read more...

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Acer unveils business-friendly Chromebox CXI5 and Enterprise CXI5 Chromeboxes at CES 2023

Paul Hill — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 18:42:01 +0000

Acer has unveiled its Acer Chromebox CXI5, Enterprise CXI5, and Add-In-One 24 display. They will go on sale in North America and the EMEA regions in the first quarter, read on for the pricing details. Read more...

Twitter introduces 'Blue for Business' to help distinguish brands and their employees

Justin Luna — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 05:38:01 +0000

Twitter is rolling out Blue for Business, a subscription service that helps identify brands and their affiliates. The social media company is now testing the feature with certain businesses. Read more...

Amazon introduces $150 million Catalytic Capital to help fund entrepreneurs

Paul Hill — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 17:16:01 +0000

Amazon has begun funnelling $150 million through venture capital funds to businesses run by under-represented people. It hopes the effort will help grow these businesses and provide new jobs. Read more...

Cloudflare reveals Zero Trust SIM to protect phones and IoT devices seamlessly

Paul Hill — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 18:38:02 +0000

Cloudflare has announced that it's working on a new service called Zero Trust SIM. With it, companies can use an eSIM solution to help mitigate attacks against employees' phones and IoT devices. Read more...

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Twitter makes 'Location Spotlight' available to all businesses and professionals

Alap Naik Desai — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 19:44:01 +0000

Twitter is offering features designed to help professionals and businesses acquire more clients and engage them. The 'Location Spotlight' feature will allow a lot more information in the bio. Read more...

Intel to shut down its entire Optane memory business, taking multi-million-dollar hit

Alap Naik Desai — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:52:01 +0000

In its Q2'2022 earnings release, Intel has indicated that it will shutter the entire Optane memory business, which signals the end of the development of the promising 3D XPoint technology. Read more...

Meta wants to refocus Portal devices as an enterprise solution

Karthik Mudaliar — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 08:00:01 +0000

Meta is currently planning to phase out its Portal smart devices as a consumer product and instead, focus more on its enterprise applications. It will continue supporting existing customers. Read more...

Customers can now choose to remain on G Suite legacy free edition for personal use

Paul Hill — Tue, 17 May 2022 17:30:02 +0000

Google has decided to let personal G Suite legacy free edition customers carry on using the service and won't insist they move to Google Workspace. The legacy service will not get support. Read more...

Office.com design revamp to be rolled out to all business and education customers soon

Usama Jawad — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 09:12:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced that its design revamp for Office.com should be available to all business and education customers by the end of this week. It is coming soon for the general public too. Read more...

Vodafone says Samsung is joining its initiative to help boost UK-based SMEs

Paul Hill — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 18:30:01 +0000

Samsung is now providing content for Vodafone's business.connected initiative which aims to upskill SMEs with regards to technology. So far, 65,000 SMEs in the UK have benefited from the initiative. Read more...

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Gartner says AI software market will reach $62 billion next year

Paul Hill — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 02:12:01 +0000

Gartner has predicted that the AI software market will reach $62 billion next year, that's up 21.3% compared to this year. As businesses work out how to implement AI, revenue is only expected to grow. Read more...

Microsoft to launch Teams Phone with Calling Plan for businesses in the new year

Paul Hill — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 18:30:01 +0000

Microsoft 365 Business Voice will be merged into a new SKU with Enterprise-grade features and will be available from January 1, 2022. The new plan is called Teams Phone with Calling Plan. Read more...

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