The Verge | Google has been hit with a record-breaking €4.3 billion ($5 billion) fine by EU regulators for breaking antitrust laws. The European Commission says Google has abused its Android market dominance in three key areas. Google has been bundling its search engine and Chrome apps into the operating system. Google has also allegedly blocked phone makers from creating devices that run forked versions of Android, and “made payments to certain large manufacturers and mobile network operators” to exclusively bundle the Google Search app on handsets.

BetterCloud Monitor | Our annual customer conference, Altitude, is happening October 2-4 in Denver, Colorado. If you haven't registered already, you should. We promise you it's unlike any other IT conference you've been to. "It says a lot about Altitude that the second I got the email about this year’s conference, I pretty much said, 'Yeah, of course I’m going to go again,' said Bjorn Pave, senior director of IT at PopSugar. He shared what makes Altitude a really “rad” IT conference — what he enjoyed the most, his major takeaways, and why attendees are guaranteed to get something out of it.

TechCrunch | As Slack continues to grow its paid business users, the company is looking for ways to help customers build integrations that make sense for the work they do. Slack announced that it has acquired Robots and Pencils’ Missions, an app that allows Slack users to build tools to automate simple routines without code. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. With Missions, Slack hopes that users can help teams boost productivity by making things more simple for a variety of repeatable processes.

TNW | Cuba has finally begun making mobile internet available to its citizens, reports Reuters. That’s huge for the Communist Caribbean island nation, which is home to some 11.5 million people. The plan is for the national telecom firm, ETECSA, to roll out access to its service nationwide by the end of 2018. Cuba has historically restricted access to internet services across the country. As Reuters notes, until 2013, you could only get online by visiting certain hotels that had connectivity for its international guests.

Umuse | From promotional emails to calendar reminders to business reports, if we leave our inboxes unattended for too long, we run the risk of having important messages buried under the clutter. This is where knowing how to sort your Gmail comes in handy.

MakeUseOf | "You probably know that Mozilla also makes apps like Thunderbird, and recently bought the read-it-later bookmarking app Pocket. Those are pretty well known though. It’s the smaller Mozilla initiatives that don’t get much limelight, and we’re here to fix that. As you probably guessed, these apps and tools perform best with Mozilla Firefox, but they also work with Chrome, Safari, Edge, or any other modern browser," writes Mihir Patkar.

CIO | Communication is a key ingredient in IT efficiency, effectiveness, and value to organizations it serves. The former CIO of HBO, Michael Gabriel, explains how use this to your professional and organizational advantage.

Mic | If you’ve never touched your Venmo’s privacy settings, you might have been putting on quite the show with your finances. A recent study, Public by Default, catalogued hundreds of millions of public Venmo transactions the service makes available for anyone to see. “The problem, which I think is a larger issue with many apps, is that Venmo is set to the least private option by default," said the privacy researcher who completed the study. She gleaned lots of details — including drug deals, eating habits, and arguments between lovers — and was able to learn "an alarming amount" about users.

G Suite Updates | Introducing Course Kit — a free toolkit that allows instructors to use Google Docs and Drive to collect assignments, give faster and richer feedback to students, and share course materials within the LMS they’re already using. Course Kit is built using the Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) standard so it's easy to set up and works with all LMSs that support LTI.

G Suite Updates | With this month’s release, Google has added two new features specifically for Jamboard for mobile devices: drawing tools and the ability to claim jams using near-field communication (NFC).

Workday Blog | Workday is excited to announce they're taking another step forward in their analytics journey with the acquisition of Stories.bi, one of the most innovative players in the analytics space.

Several People Are Typing | Slack is acquiring Robot & Pencils’ Missions, a tool that makes it easy for anyone to automate routine processes and tasks in Slack.

Asana Blog | With Timeline in Asana, you can map out your project plan to see how all the work fits together. And with recent improvements to Timeline, you can now draw dependencies between tasks.