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Microsoft Teams has reached 32 million users as remote work surges

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Microsoft Corp said on Thursday that Teams, its chat and conferencing app, reached 32 million users as of March 11 amid a surge in remote work by companies around the world in response to the coronavirus outbreak. The number was up sharply from November, when Microsoft said it had 20 million daily active users. Teams competes directly with collaboration app maker Slack Technologies Inc, which said in October that it had 12 million daily active users. Slack did not update that figure during its earnings announcement on March 12, but said four of its five largest deals in the most recent quarter were won against Microsoft Teams . Microsoft also rolled out several features designed to help with telemedicine and working from home, such as bookings application for Teams to help hospitals manage virtual appointments. “ As organizations around the world are changing the way they work in response to the [coronavirus] situation, we’re going to learn a tremendous amount,” Satya ...

Data scientist called America’s hottest job

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Data scientist is currently considered as the hottest job in the USA and healthcare organizations, among many other sectors, are clamoring to hire them at cushy salaries. Murray Webb had been a dull student who was more interested in sports rather than schoolwork while attending a small college in Virginia. He then transferred to Kennesaw State University in suburban Atlanta in order to pursue master’s degree in applied statistics & landed 4 job offers upon graduation. Webb, 33, currently earns $160,000 per year targeting healthcare customers for hospitals. He says he is approached weekly by recruiters seeking data scientists. Webb is part of a national employment trend that has data scientists at tech companies like Airbnb Inc. & Uber Technologies Inc. adding the words “I’m hiring” next to their LinkedIn.com profiles. “The word on the street is there’s definitely a shortage of people who can do data science,” said Daniel Gutierrez, managing editor of the journal i...