Zoom CEO: Zoom doesn’t allow colleagues to have good debates
At the height of the pandemic, Zoom became a platform of global prominence. Everyone went "Zooming" when office life was temporarily impossible. By now, working from home is ingrained in many a company. However, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan thinks it's better to come into the office more often anyway. Becaus... Read more
“Offices will die out without accurate data”
Soon after the Covid-19 pandemic struck, employees around the globe got used to the fact that work could be done from home. However, many companies opted to quickly reverse this policy. In 2023, many business leaders nevertheless regret the decision to encourage or impose office attendance again, a... Read more
New APIs and developer platform for Lucid Software
Lucid Software has unveiled new APIs and a developer platform along with it. These innovations are already being put to use by Salesforce, Slack, ServiceNow and Notion, and others.
Lucid touts the Visual Collaboration Suite as useful for creating applications and integrations to make collaborati... Read more
Slack starts looking like competitor’s platform after biggest redesign ever
Slack is about to roll out the application's biggest redesign ever to users. In doing so, it is opting for order and structure. We cannot help but notice that the interface looks familiar to us.
The communication platform Slack has been growing steadily in size over the past few years. New featu... Read more
The end is near for videoconferencing platform BlueJeans
Verizon has decided to no longer offer the videoconferencing platform BlueJeans. The telecom operator lists "changed market conditions" as the main reason for the discontinuation.
Verizon bought the videoconferencing platform BlueJeans in 2020 during the height of the Covid pandemic. At the time... Read more
Zoom lets organizations share YouTube videos with Zoom Clips
Zoom is introducing the Zoom Clips tool. It allows users to record and share short videos for offline collaboration.
The immediately available Zoom Clips tool allows employees to support each other with video or exchange important information when they are unable to meet physically via the video... Read more
EU opens investigation into bundling Teams, Microsoft may yet conciliate
The European Union is officially launching an investigation into Microsoft's antitrust practices. The tech giant is accused of unfair competition by bundling its video platform Teams into Office 365 and Microsoft 365.
An official European Union investigation follows a complaint filed by rival c... Read more
Microsoft introduces scheduling app Classwork in Teams for Education
Microsoft has added the planning app for teachers Classwork to Teams for Education. This should make it easier for teachers to create, organize, manage and distribute their teaching materials to students via Teams.
According to Microsoft, the now-released planning app Classwork is an application... Read more
Google Calendar lets users specify office attendance more precisely
Google Calendar now allows users to specify more precisely where a worker is located on a given day. Previously, the option existed to schedule a work day by default for home or office work, for example.
The feature can be helpful in a team to coordinate when someone is in the office, as it can ... Read more
Teams goes for compactness and cuts clicks in June
Teams received improvements in June which reduce the number of clicks, provide more overview and make conversations more natural.
Microsoft brings new features to its communications platform Teams regularly. To keep an overview, Microsoft releases an overview of the new features every month, wh... Read more