Who will win the epic battle for online meeting hegemony? | ZDNet

The pandemic has focused much of the remote worker experience like a laser on the lowly online meeting, where many workers now spend so much of their work day now. Stalwarts like Cisco and HCL are facing intense competition from upstarts like Zoom and Slack as well as industry heavyweights Google and especially Microsoft.
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Google Takes on Zoom and Slack By Bundling Video Calls and Chat Into Gmail for Business Users – Slashdot

Google is making its popular Gmail app more of a productivity powerhouse. From a report: The Alphabet subsidiary is incorporating more applications into the business version of Gmail so that users don’t need to switch to other apps or browser tabs, it could help keep employees satisfied with the com…
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