And that’s that, as the Zoom deal to buy Five9 is called off

Talk about a roller coaster ride. Zoom, the video conferencing company that became everyone’s primary means of communication around work during the pandemic, will no longer be acquiring Five9, a maker of cloud-based customer-service software. Though the all-stock deal, announced in July, was expected to enable Zoom to tap into the lucrative contact center market, […]

Tech giants brace for impact in India as new payments rule goes into effect

Apple, Sony, Google, Zoom, PayPal and several other tech companies as well as scores of banks have cautioned customers and partners in India to expect a surge in declined transactions as the world’s second-largest internet market’s central bank enforces a new directive for the way recurring payments are processed in the country. The Reserve Bank […]

ヴィデオ会議で映る自分の見た目が気になる「Zoom異形症」が増加している

コロナ禍における在宅勤務の浸透でヴィデオ会議が増えるなか、画面に映る自分の外見を気にして皮膚科や美容外科を訪れる人が急増している。「Zoom異形症」とも呼ばれるこうした症状に、わたしたちはどう対処すればいいのか。
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Sequoia’s Pat Grady says it isn’t clear startups “should be accelerating” right now — here’s why

Earlier today, we joined friend and former colleague Jon Fortt of CNBC in interviewing partner Pat Grady of Sequoia Capital, and it proved a wide-ranging conversation. You can check out the video below, but we thought there were some highlights worth pulling out for some of you, including as it pertains to the current market, […]

Zoom無料版と有料版はどう違う？

Zoomは無料で主要機能のほとんどを使うことができます。そのため世界の多くの企業や学校、組織などで利用されています。しかし無料版には機能制限があり、とくにミーティングの時間制限は気になるかたも多いので […]

Zoom announces first startups receiving funding from $100M investment fund

For more than a year now, Zoom has been on a mission to transform from an application into a platform. To that end it made three announcements last year: Zoom Apps development tools, the Zoom Apps marketplace and a $100 million development fund to invest in some of the more promising startups building tools on […]