SAP plans to move its customers to cloud-based models at the expense of licensing. The result is short-term pain through 2022.

New solutions and updates include enhanced Azure Arc and Azure Stack capabilities, the Azure Certified Device Program, the public preview of Azure Communication Services, the general availability of the next-generation Azure VMware Solution and Azure’s first industry-specific cloud.

Google’s in-house incubator Area 120 is today introducing a new work-tracking tool, Tables, which aims to make tracking projects more efficient by investing in automation. Instead of simply tracking notes and tasks associated with a project in various documents that have to be manually updated by team members, Tables’ bots help do things like scheduling recurring email reminders when tasks are overdue, messaging a chat room when new form submissions are received, moving tasks to other people’s w

Two distinct versions of Google Pay exist today. The first is aimed at countries where NFC-based payments are widely adopted, while the other is for the Next Billion Users. That latter version of Google Pay, known as Tez, is getting a Flutter rewrite that will serve as the basis for global expansion.

Class-action lawsuits filed in the UK and Netherlands will accuse tech giants Oracle and Salesforce of breaching GDPR in the way they process and share personal data to sell online advertising.

GitHub ships a snapshot of all public repositories taken to an archiving vault in the Arctic. Liam Tung By Liam

A number of high profile Twitter accounts, including Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Apple, were breached on Wednesday. The verified accounts for Gates, Musk and Apple issued tweets promoting a cryptocurrency scam, asking followers to send money to a blockchain address in exchange for a larger pay back.

Microsoft’s support for Android is going beyond native apps and devices like the Surface Duo. Thurrot reports Microsoft is collaborating with Google to help bring more (and importantly, better) progressive web apps to Android devices through the Play Store. Apps built using Microsoft’s PWABuilder tool will use Google’s Bubblewrap utility and library to take advantage of new features, including a new standard for web shortcuts, “deeper” push notifications and visual customizations. Web apps shoul

Google says Tsunami is an extensible network scanner for detecting high-severity vulnerabilities with as little false-positives as possible.

Google makes progress in enabling Flutter to be used to create desktop apps for Linux, macOS and Windows.