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Avoiding Video Background Snafus: How to Hold Safe Meetings Online

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Zoom mishaps have provided us with much comic relief while we’re trying to adjust to safe meetings online. We’ll never forget the lawyer who wasn’t really a cat and the boss who was a potato. Zoom backgrounds weren’t left out of the fun either. They gave us laughs, like the student who used Danny DeVito’s […]

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TouchCast raises $55M to grow its mixed reality-based virtual event platform

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Events — when they haven’t been cancelled altogether in the last 12 months due to the global health pandemic — have gone virtual and online, and a wave of startups that are helping people create and participate in those experiences are seeing a surge of attention, and funding. In the latest development, New York video […] Continue reading TouchCast raises $55M to grow its mixed reality-based virtual event platform→

New IT Teams Controls Make Setting Default Roles in Meetings Easier

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Microsoft has rolled out new administrative controls for configuring the defaults for who should be a presenter in a meeting.

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Why U.S. Software Companies Don’t Have to Protect Our Data

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Flaws such as the CLOUD Act’s ability to undermine the Privacy Shield mean our data can be sent to U.S. authorities and companies Since COVID-19, millions of people have been working from home. U.S. software providers such as Zoom and Skype are experi… Continue reading Why U.S. Software Companies Don’t Have to Protect Our Data→

Amazon Chime Aims to Grab a Piece of the Enterprise Communications Market

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Amazon’s is looking to grow its AWS user base by providing a full voice and video calling conference service called Chime which they unveiled this week.

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Siris Capital to buy Polycom for $2B in cash, Polycom cancels its $1.96B Mitel merger

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globe with arrows Here’s an interesting twist in one of the bigger enterprise acquisition stories of 2016. After Mitel earlier this year announced that it would acquire Polycom for $1.96 billion and consolidate the two companies’ enterprise communication businesses, today private equity firm Siris Capital has come in with a higher offer: it has agreed to acquire Polycom for $2 billion in cash and… Read More Continue reading Siris Capital to buy Polycom for $2B in cash, Polycom cancels its $1.96B Mitel merger→