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Over the last few years, voice chat apps have become essential for education, learning, socializing, gaming, and work-related purposes. With numerous apps in the market, including popular ones such as Zoom, Skype, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Discord, and WhatsApp, voice-chat functionalities are widely available.But one of the voice chat apps on Android has been leaking … Read more
The Supreme Court has closed a public interest litigation (PIL) that sought a ban on the usage of the ‘Zoom‘ video conferencing platform. The PIL, which was filed in 2020, claimed that the app breaches users’ privacy.A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and MM Sundresh closed the petition after advocate Arvind Datar appearing for Zoom … Read more
Video calling platforms like Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet became important everyday tools since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. These video conferencing services have also improved significantly in the last few years. This journey was embarked on by the leading apps which regularly updated their platforms with new features, bug fixes and accessibility … Read more
Several tech giants including Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and others have already announced mass layoffs in 2023. More companies are now joining the bandwagon and are announcing fresh job cuts. E-commerce firm eBay Inc has announced that it will lay off 500 employees globally. The number of employees that will be laid off represents 4% … Read more
Zoom has become the latest company to announce job cuts. Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom, announced that the company is laying off 1,300 employees, which translates to about 15% of its staff. Each organisation across Zoom will be impacted by the job cut. According to a memo from the CEO, the job cuts are global … Read more
The European Union is reportedly planning to open an antitrust investigation into Microsoft for allegedly misusing its position in pushing new products and services with its Office suite. A report said that the investigation will be based on a 2020 complaint from Slack, filed amid the pandemic in July 2020 when video calling apps – … Read more
WhatsApp promptly responded to union minister of state for electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar‘s tweet regarding the incorrect map tweeted by the company. The Meta-owned instant messaging platform WhatsApp had tweeted the wrong map of India in its New Year celebration live-streaming link. The IT minister, tagging WhatsApp, asked the company to immediately fix the … Read more
WhatsApp got a stern warning from Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar for tweeting an incorrect map of India earlier today (December 31). The Meta-owned instant messaging platform WhatsApp tweeted the wrong map of India in its New Year celebration live-streaming link. The minister, tagging WhatsApp, asked the company to immediately … Read more
The minister of state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar cautioned video calling company Zoom’s founder and chief executive officer Eric Yuan recently. The reason: Yuan had used the wrong map of India on Twitter. The tweet shared by Yuan showed top video calling platforms in each country across the world. The video had … Read more