Communication & Collaboration News
The latest news and industry commentary on communication and collaboration platforms and the businesses building them.
Zoom pushes ahead on security, buying Keybase and reaching pact with New York
Video conferencing player Zoom has pushed forward in its effort to revamp its security, striking a deal with the New York attorney general’s office to protect users’ pr...
Zoom adds ex-Trump adviser, tech lobbyist to PR push
Zoom has named former White House National Security Adviser HR McMaster to its board and hired the policy chief of one of the tech world’s big lobby groups to drive governmen...
Twitter tests telling users their tweet replies may be offensive
Twitter will test sending users a prompt when they reply to a tweet using “offensive or hurtful language,” in an effort to clean up conversations on the social media pl...
Zoom says it has 300 million daily meeting participants, not users
Video conferencing provider Zoom has said it mistakenly published a blog last week that put its daily users at 300 million people when the figure instead referred to the number of ...
Twitter gains users, beats estimates but ad trends alarm investors
Twitter has reported higher first-quarter revenue and a smaller loss than analysts had expected amid the coronavirus pandemic, but its shares fell as investors fretted about potent...
Microsoft revenue beats as remote work boosts Teams
Microsoft Corp has beaten Wall Street sales and profit expectations, powered by sharp demand for its ‘Microsoft Teams’ chat and online meeting app and Xbox gaming servi...
Google makes Meet video conferencing free to all users
Google has said any user will soon be able to host free video conferences on Meet, turning its previously business-only tool into a bigger rival to Zoom and others battling for use...
Twitter opens up data for researchers to study coronavirus tweets
Twitter will grant researchers and software developers access to a real-time data stream of tens of millions of daily public tweets about coronavirus, which they can use to study t...
Cyber-intel businesses pitch governments on spy tools to trace COVID-19
When law enforcement agencies want to gather evidence locked inside an iPhone, they often turn to hacking software from the Israeli firm Cellebrite. By manually plugging the softwa...
Facebook enters the videoconferencing market with Messenger Rooms
Facebook has just introduced a videoconferencing tool and expanded livestreaming features, capitalising on a massive surge in demand for video chats during the global COVID-19 pand...
Ireland should consider forcing Google and Facebook to pay media for content – PM
The government of the Republic of Ireland should consider copying Australia’s plan to force Facebook and Google to share advertising revenue with local media, Prime Minister ...
Belgian port trials wristbands for coronavirus social distancing
Workers in the port of Antwerp will next month begin testing wristbands developed by a Belgian technology company that could help guarantee the social distancing required during th...
Zoom raises encryption level with an upgraded meeting app
Zoom Video Communications has announced that it is upgrading the encryption features on its video conferencing app to better safeguard meeting data and offer protection against tam...
Zoombombing makes choosing video apps harder for lockdown chats
The coronavirus crisis has seen millions locked in their homes turn to videoconferencing apps, bringing with it question marks over security and privacy and a new verb – Zoom...