Virtual meeting platform Vowel raises $13.5M, aims to cure meeting fatigue

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Avoiding Video Background Snafus: How to Hold Safe Meetings Online

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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New IT Teams Controls Make Setting Default Roles in Meetings Easier


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

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Teams Gets new Admin Controls for Backgrounds, UI and AI improvements Plus Auto-Enablement


Microsoft changes meeting limit size, again, adds more controls for backgrounds, and suggested replies are coming soon.

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Microsoft launches managed meeting rooms as a service

Whether you love them or hate them (and you probably hate them), meetings are a fact of corporate life. And how many meetings have you attended that didn’t start on time because of technical difficulties? Microsoft wants to change that by managing your meeting rooms for you — starting at $50 per room. Managed Meeting […] Continue reading Microsoft launches managed meeting rooms as a service

Voicera lands $20 million with help from big-time enterprise investors

 It seems that everyone agrees that meetings are a time suck. There have been many attempts to use technology to make it easier to organize and run them, but Voicera, a Bay area startup, is attacking the problem from a different angle. It wants to… Continue reading Voicera lands $20 million with help from big-time enterprise investors