Parker Harris stated that they want everyone to be able to use Slackbot and that they don't want to lock it behind a gate. In its current form, it's only available to enterprise customers, who receive unlimited access to Slackbot.
Using the Mic button and dropdown, you can select your audio devices, including your speaker volume. In most cases, Teams selects this correctly, but if you want to switch to a Bluetooth or USB headset, for instance, choose the right device from the Speaker and Microphone section of the right pane.
This lifetime license gives you permanent access to eight Microsoft Office essentials. Tackle document creation with Word, build spreadsheets with Excel, manage your emails with Outlook, and design presentations with PowerPoint. You'll also receive some of Microsoft Office's newer favorites - Teams to stay connected with others, OneNote to upgrade your note-taking, Publisher to design professional marketing materials, and Access to manage large databases easily.
They said it would never happen, but of course it was always going to - ads are coming to ChatGPT. Shirley Marschall takes a look at this little bit of history repeating... Guys, honestly, there won't be ads... Jeff Bezos: "Advertising is the price you pay for having an unremarkable product or service." Elon Musk: "I hate advertising." Sergey Brin and Larry Page: "We expect that advertising-funded search engines will be inherently biased towards advertisers and away from the needs of consumers."
Competition will heat up as AI-native challengers begin to chip away at market leaders across business processes and create new market segments that were previously unaddressed by software. In addition, new entrants are rapidly growing and disrupting the market with leaner operating models.
Mailchimp is moving beyond just email. The company that put itself on the map with a concept that doing business emails would be so easy a chimp could even do it, is now adding a full slate of tools to empower small businesses, with a campaign featuring that chimp named Freddie. Today (13 May), Mailchimp is launching its all-in-one marketing platform for growing businesses, transforming itself from an email-centric company to one that can be used for all small business marketing needs.
Sales teams in the United Kingdom operate under intense pressure to balance responsiveness with resource efficiency. Customer expectations have shifted toward immediate engagement, while internal teams must manage increasingly complex pipelines and fragmented communication channels. Within this landscape, technologies designed to automate scheduling and lead engagement are no longer niche curiosities but strategic enablers of workflow efficiency. Systems such as AI Appointment Setter are part of that broader shift, representing tools that can reduce manual burden and streamline early-stage interactions between sales teams and potential clients.
