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Skype  Skype’s redesigned desktop app moves the “chats,” “calls,” “contacts” and “notifications” buttons to the top left corner. A Skype redesign in June last year — when the “Highlights” feature was introduced — was mostly unpopular with users. Skype said that most people use the platform purely for calls, video …

Aidan Crawley | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mark Read, head of WPP Digital, a unit of WPP Plc, speaks in Dublin, Ireland, Oct. 30, 2013.  WPP named insider Mark Read as its new chief executive on Monday tasked with replacing its founder Martin Sorrell and steering the world’s biggest advertising …

Beck Diefenbach | Reuters Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage during the presentation of new Google hardware in San Francisco on Oct. 4, 2016. When the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence holds its next hearing on Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, it will hear from two …

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google Inc., speaks during the Google I/O Developers Conference in Mountain View, California, U.S., on Tuesday, May 8, 2018.  Let’s get this out of the way first: There is no basis for the charge that President …

Getty Images Handout image provided by Disney Parks, Walt Disney Company Chairman and CEO Bob Iger announced at D23 EXPO 2015 that Star Wars-themed lands will be coming to Disneyland park in Anaheim, California and Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando, Florida. What would a Star Wars land be without a …

Alex Brandon | AP President Donald Trump speaks during a discussion for drug-free communities support programs, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018, in Washington. President Donald Trump said Thursday he would consider linking capital gains taxes to inflation, repeating an idea previously floated by …

Kuni Takahashi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Android, Chrome and Apps at Google Inc., gestures as he speaks during the company’s Android One smartphone launch event in New Delhi, India, on Monday, Sept. 15, 2014. On the morning of March 19, Jonathan Karmel, a …

Woohae Cho/Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Passengers use smartphones inside a subway train in Seoul, South Korea, in 2015.   In Norway, commuters have been seen to be able to include some travel time as part of their working day, the researchers made note of. This is not the case …

Bloomberg | Getty Images Google has expanded its Google for Jobs initiative, launched last summer, to feature a job search tool that uses AI technology. The company believes it will radically change the online job-seeking experience. Google has been criticized by a prominent U.K. lawmaker for not cooperating with Western governments …

Leah Millis | Reuters President Donald Trump pumps his fist at supporters after speaking at a Make America Great Again rally at the Civic Center in Charleston, West Virginia, August 21, 2018.  President Donald Trump is fired up about the recent stock market gains and is promising that more good …