Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?
1 — Microsoft unveils lighter $399 Surface Go tablet to take on iPads and Chromebooks.
Microsoft has unveiled its $399 Surface Go, a smaller tablet computer that competes with Apple’s iPad and Google’s Chromebooks. It’s a reasonably priced, 1.15-pound, solid tablet with a 10-inch display, making it a smaller, lighter, and cheaper version of Microsoft’s other tablet computer—the Surface Pro 3—which has been discontinued. (Source: USA Today) (Note: My company, The Marks Group PC, is a Microsoft partner)
Why this is important for your business:
It’s lighter, it’s cheaper, it’s smaller…and it may even be better than an iPad? Could be a winner for the business traveler or a mobile employee.
2 — Small businesses are seeking net neutrality help from states.
The end of net neutrality will affect not only how much business owners pay for internet access but also whether they’ll be able to sell their goods on the internet and which programs they’ll be able to access. In response, legislators in 29 states have introduced 65 bills aimed at protecting net neutrality for businesses and consumers in their states. (Source: app.com)
Why this is important for your business:
I’m not so sure that the Trump Administration’s ending net neutrality will result in the end-of-the-world consequences that some people are predicting. Will it increase costs or limited speed and service for small businesses? Maybe or maybe not. However, if your business is in one of the 29 states that are protecting net neutrality you may be more protected from these risks than others.
3 — Google Pay rolls out support for peer-to-peer payments and mobile ticketing.
Google says its updates to Google Pay, its recently rebranded service for all its different payments tools, are now going live – and there are some changes that will benefit lots of businesses. (Source: Tech Crunch)
Why this is important for your business:
One of the additions is peer-to-peer payments, which allows your customers to not only pay or request money from a friend through Google Pay Send but also to do that into the main Google Pay app. This makes it easier to split the bill with their friends. If a customer buys something with Google Pay, they can tap on the purchase and then request payment from up to five people.
4 — Universities and legacy industries are giving rise to the Midwest’s AI startups.
A Venture Beat analysis reveals that many of the Midwest’s most promising AI startups—in cities such as Chicago, St. Louis, Ann Arbor, Columbus, and Minneapolis—were born of local universities or have ties to the region’s historically dominant industries, which offers a clue as to what types of startups the Midwest could give rise to in future. (Source: Venture Beat)
Why this is important for your business:
Venture Beat lists a surprising number of AI start-ups that are based in the cities above and many experts believe that the Midwest region is becoming a vital area to more companies developing this technology. Has an ecosystem been born? If you’re in the space, is this a place you would consider moving to?
5 — A German startup offers an easy to use design tool to help businesses create better looking content.
German startup Xara has developed Xara Cloud, a design tool that resides in the cloud and attempts to bridge the gap between professional design and business content created by non-design professionals. It consists of a drag-and-drop browser-based editor that lets users create designs using text, shapes, icons, charts, and imported images. In addition, it has the ability to use off-the-shelf professionally created color schemes or have the software create a new color scheme based on an image, such as a company logo, that the user has uploaded. (Source: Tech Crunch)
Why this is important for your business:
Judging by its features, Xara Cloud appears to be a useful tool to help the non-expert business owner (that’s me!) create attractive and professional content for our blogs and websites.
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