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BS READS: From phones to TVs - Xiaomi's smart rise in India's gadget market

India's smart home market, worth $3 billion, is estimated to double over the next two years. Yuvraj Malik explains how Chinese electronics maker Xiaomi is working to be at the top of this market

No water-cooler gossip, but you may soon get the feel of your office in WFH

Through its Together Mode, Microsoft Teams lets participants share a virtual space like conference room, auditorium and coffee shop in a group video call meeting

Zoom to build customised products for education, medicine segments

Plans to launch 'most secured' version with best in class security algorithms by year-end

Meet the Tamil Nadu-born techie who is helping Zoom connect the world

Velchamy Sankarlingam, who heads the firm's engineering and product dept, reports directly to CEO Eric S Yuan, who was his colleague at WebEx

Zoom introduces two-factor authentication to boost users' security

Video meet app Zoom has introduced Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for additional security, making it easier for admins and organisations to protect their users data and prevent security breaches

What your Zoom background says about you

Is there no 'normal' background? Sure there is

$4 bn in hours: Zoom CEO's wealth soars as revenue jumps 355% in Q2

Shares of his virtual-meeting company surged as much as 26 per cent to $410 in late US trading as it reported a jump in quarterly revenue and suggested the explosive growth will continue.

BS Reads: The maturing of the video call

Video conferencing has brought about a cultural shift in how we conduct business. The platforms' sophisticated features have removed most glitches, but people still yearn for human contact

Zoom says most service restored after US users hit by partial outage

Zoom's stock has risen more than eight-fold since its initial public offering last year and four-fold so far in 2020, but it fell as much as 5.4% in early Monday

Techgentsia: A village-based video conferencing start-up's Zoom challenge

Techgentsia is determined to expand its presence to both Indian and international markets

Edtech start-up Whitehat Jr sold to Byju's on Zoom for $300 million

The deal is the biggest in the Indian edtech sector by far

Zoom Video halts direct sales in China, will rely on local partners

The company informed Chinese customers that sales will be conducted only through authorised partners from August 23

Customers can choose data centres to route their data, says Zoom

From January to April 2020, Zoom saw 6,700% growth in free user sign-ups in India

The techie-teacher who pulled off a $100 mn funding deal over a Zoom call

With this round, the Bengaluru-based firm's valuation jumped to $600 million, making it the second most-valued company in the Indian edtech space

Zoom to establish technology centre in Bengaluru to expand presence

The decision was taken following the Zoom's increased level of adoption by users across India

We'll be investing, hiring heavily in India over 5 years: Zoom President

Velchamy Sankarlingam also addressed the issue of Zoom's origin and identity, which has often been wrongly mentioned as Chinese

Planning significant investment, more hiring in India in next 5 years: Zoom

Popular video conferencing app Zoom is planning to make a significant investment in India over the next five years and ramp up hiring

Zoom Video Communications launches new hardware as a service

Zoom launched new hardware-as-a-service (HaaS) offering to help its enterprise customers scale video conference rooms and phones with budget-friendly hardware options and simple technology upgrades

Facebook, Zoom join others to pause Hong Kong's requests for users' data

Microsoft and video meet platform Zoom have decided not to process data requests from the Hong Kong authorities in the wake of China imposing a controversial new National Security Law in Hong Kong

We are a US company, not Chinese; will invest and hire more in India: Zoom

Velchamy Sankarlingam who is President of Engineering and Products at Zoom said India is and will continue to be an important market for Zoom