Hackers put more than half a million login details for the teleconferencing app Zoom on the dark Web, according to a report.
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Google wants people using its video chat software so badly, the company is now giving it away. Starting on Wednesday, Google Meet, its teleconferencing app, will be available at no cost.
Facebook is introducing new Messenger Rooms that can host groups of people on video – including those who do not have an account.
Zoom has been lambasted for its security flaws, but the backlash hasn’t slowed growth. The company reported a 50% surge in use of the online meeting application in the past three weeks.
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Zoom Video Communications will let paying customers decide which countries their virtual meetings get routed through, a move to assuage clients worried they may be vulnerable to Chinese snooping.
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan pledged that his company will meet the highest security standards, seeking to put millions of new users at ease after numerous security lapses on the video-meeting application.
Zoom Video Communications has been sued by a shareholder and accused of fraud amid mounting security concerns over the popular video-conferencing app.
The tech bubble is popping, but not in the way anyone expected. After years of fretting that free-spending start-ups with unrealistic valuations would bring down the start-up economy on its own, a global pandemic is doing it in instead.