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Welo App – A Virtual Workspace Company Backed By Atlassian and Zoom

3Apr By AnkitaNo Comments

FUNDING

Welo App – A Virtual Workspace Company Backed By Atlassian and Zoom

BOSTON, 3rd April, 2022-- Welo App, the shared virtual workspace platform announced that it has received investments from Atlassian Ventures and the Zoom Apps Fund, making it a company to watch in the burgeoning video communications ecosystem. Welo connects geographically distributed colleagues by allowing users to move naturally around a shared virtual space. Colleagues can reach out for a quick 1on1 chat, or engage as a team to collaborate on projects. “As online work becomes a bigger part of our lives, it is crucial to give people the flexibility they need to make video meetings efficient and meaningful,” said Cliff Pollan, Welo’s Co-Founder. “These investments support Welo’s mission to improve productivity and revive culture in the distributed work paradigm.” Video communication...

3Aug By AdityaNo Comments

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Zoom to Pay $85M for Privacy Violation

California, Aug 3, 2021: Video Conferencing platform Zoom will pay $85 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that weak privacy controls open the personal information of users for outsiders to disrupt video meetings during the start of the pandemic. Millions of people in the U.S. who have used Zoom since March 31, 2020, could be eligible for a slice of the settlement that was reached over the weekend. The payment amounts are expected to average $34 or $35 for those who subscribed to Zoom's paid version, and $11 or $12 for the overwhelming majority who used the free version, based on estimates in court documents. Zoom was bedeviled by security issues early last year after stay-at-home orders transformed the company's videoconferencing service from a niche product into a cultural phenom...

India’s Richest Man Company launched Zoom alternative Jiomeet

3Jul By PriyankaNo Comments

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India’s Richest Man Company launched Zoom alternative Jiomeet

NEW DELHI, 3rd July 2020: India's richest man Mukesh Ambani's company Reliance Jio officially launched its video conferencing platform JioMeet yesterday. JioMeet is available on Google Play Store, App Store, and for desktop users. The video conferencing app, which can support up to 100 participants at once. Reliance owned Jiomeet will now compete with other video conferencing platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, etc. Also Read: This Indian Startup Has Made a Zoom Alternative, in Just 20 Days Jio Meet is a platform that has much uniqueness, it actually has an ability to work on any device, any operating system, and it has an ability to do a complete collaboration,” Pankaj Pawar, senior VP, Reliance Jio Infocomm, said to Pixr8 News. “And effectively, this collaboration does not...

This Indian Startup Has Made a Zoom Alternative, in Just 20 Days

4May By PriyankaNo Comments

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This Indian Startup Has Made a Zoom Alternative, in Just 20 Days

Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India: More than a third of world population is under lockdown and India with its 1.3 billion people tops the list. The government is controlling the movement of its citizens to avoid the spread of the coronavirus. Socializing, consulting, training, operations, and governance have become a virtual experience predominantly with no movement or interaction outside the home. Non-native and fishy apps are handy to use for official and personal communication. Blue Jeans, Google Duo, Google Hangouts, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, WhatsApp, FaceTime, and Skype are the only recourse in current unprecedented times. Some of these apps suffer from the restriction on the number of participants to partake in a video or voice communication. Other applications have their share ...

Oracle wins cloud computing deal with Zoom as video calls surge

28Apr By reutersNo Comments

BUSINESS

Oracle wins cloud computing deal with Zoom as video calls surge

(Reuters), 29th April 2020 - Zoom Video Communications Inc said on Tuesday it has started using Oracle Corp’s cloud computing service to help handle the surge in online video call volumes brought on by the novel coronavirus pandemic. As corporations and schools shift to remote work and billions of people subject to stay-at-home orders seek ways to remain connected, Zoom has seen daily meeting participants rocket from 10 million in December to 300 million. But it has also experienced a backlash as the increased use exposed privacy and security flaws. Zoom set out a 90-day plan to fix the security issues, but in the meantime, the thirty-fold jump in traffic has required more computing power. The deal is a big win for Oracle, which wants to catch up with rivals such as Amazon.com an...

Zoom rolls out New Measures as Security fears Mount

17Apr By NitishNo Comments

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Zoom rolls out New Measures as Security fears Mount

Videoconferencing platform Zoom is rolling out a number of measures meant to stem criticism over how it has handled security as users flock to the application during the coronavirus pandemic. Zoom chief executive Eric Yuan laid out steps Wednesday that the company is taking against problems such as data hacking and harassment by individuals who crash sessions in what is referred to as "Zoombombing." By week's end, paid account holders will be able to select which regions their data is routed through during their sessions in a move apparently aimed at concerns over the information passing through China where it might be subject to snooping. "As a reminder, meeting servers in China have always been geofenced with the goal of ensuring that meeting data of users outside of China sta...

Google Stop Employees from using Zoom Video Conferencing App

13Apr By NitishNo Comments

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Google Stop Employees from using Zoom Video Conferencing App

Search engine based company Google ban employees from using popular video-conferencing app Zoom after end to end security flaws. Video-conferencing app Zoom which gained over 200 million users worldwide in March amid shutdown due to coronavirus pandemic has recently been under the scanner after few countries reported security issues. Apart from Google, the Singapore education dept, Taiwan Government, Elon Musk's SpaceX, etc has banned video conferencing app over security concerns. The app has also been banned by New York City officials for schools who were earlier using the app to facilitate remote classes and sessions. As Pixr8 News mentioned in its earlier report that Zoom videos had been exposed on the open web due to end to end security flaws. Also, a data-mining feature o...

Singapore stops Zoom for Online Education as Hackers Strike

11Apr By PriyankaNo Comments

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Singapore stops Zoom for Online Education as Hackers Strike

Singapore has suspended the use of Zoom for online education after hackers hijacked a lesson and showed obscene images to students. In what is known as “Zoombombing,” two hackers interrupted a geography lesson a day after Singapore closed schools on Wednesday as part of partial lockdown measures to curb local transmissions of COVID-19. Lessons have moved online, with some teachers using video conferencing tools like Zoom. Singapore’s Ministry of Education said it was investigating the “serious incidents” and may file police reports. "We are already working with Zoom to enhance its security settings and make these security measures clear and easy to follow,” said Aaron Loh, director of the ministry’s Educational Technology Division. "As a precautionary measure, our teachers ...

6Apr By AnkitaNo Comments

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Zoom CEO Apologizes for Security Issues

Eric S. Yuan, Founder & CEO of video meeting app Zoom apologized to its users after the recent security lapses incidents. In a blog post, Yuan wrote, "Usage of Zoom has ballooned overnight. As of the end of December last year, the maximum number of daily meeting participants, both free and paid, conducted on Zoom was approximately 10 million. In March this year, we reached more than 200 million daily meeting participants, both free and paid. We have been working around the clock to ensure that all of our users new and old, large and small can stay in touch and operational." For the past several weeks, supporting this influx of users has been a tremendous undertaking and our sole focus. We have strived to provide you with uninterrupted service and the same user-friendly exp...

Video calling app Zoom Has Security Flaws

3Apr By NitishNo Comments

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Video calling app Zoom Has Security Flaws

Zoom, a video conferencing app that received huge traction amid the virus crisis grapples with end to end security flaws. As per the latest news, hackers enter into official web meetings of organizations and disrupting them with pornography and messages. Cybersecurity expert fears that these hacks could be more harmful in the future and access your secure files or organization corporate software. Zoom claims on its official website that they offer end-to-end encryption on its website. “Zoom's solution and security architecture provide end-to-end encryption and meeting access controls so data in transit cannot be intercepted”, according to the company’s website. However, a recent report by The Intercept reveals that video calls on Zoom are not end-to-end encrypted. Instead,...

Decoding India’s passenger conveyance: From Traditional Horse Carriages To Modern-Day fleet cabs, radio taxis and rental cars

20Dec By No Comments

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Decoding India’s passenger conveyance: From Traditional Horse Carriages To Modern-Day fleet cabs, radio taxis and rental cars

“Why own a car, when you have a taxi at your doorstep?” has emerged as a trending concept in India. India is witnessing a revolutionary change in urban road passenger conveyance – from traditional horse carriages of only a few decades earlier to modern-day fleet cabs, radio taxis and rental cars. The industry, very new and growing fast, is already valued at $6-$9 billion. The following new models of business operation are visible in the Indian context: Marketplace/ aggregator business model This model has emerged as the most popular model operated by large players like Uber, Ola, Meru, Taxi for sure (‘TFS’) (acquired by Ola in a cash and stock deal of $200 million), YourCabs, TaxiGuide, TaxiPixi, and BookmyCab, etc. In this model, drivers register themselves with the operato...