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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

Zoom's newest challenger: Budding internet tycoon Mukesh Ambani

Like Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and other services, JioMeet offers unlimited high-definition calls - but unlike Zoom, it doesn't impose a 40-minute time limit.

Reliance launches JioMeet to take on Zoom, can support up to 100 members

Other highlights include easy sign up with either mobile number or email ID, meeting in HD audio and video quality

Digital strike: India bans 59 Chinese mobile apps on security threat

Experts say now service providers may be told to block IP addresses

An intimate peep into Dharavi's streets and its food, all virtually

Geetanjali Krishna takes a stroll around Asia's largest slum and gets a hands-on cooking lesson

'Boycott Chinese apps' campaign heats up, may have little economic impact

Apart from the boycott campaign, Indian intelligence agencies have red-flagged usage of over 50 China-linked apps as being a threat to national security.

Zoom plans to offer end-to-end encryption to free, paying customers

The company will also be using AES 256 GCM transport encryption as its default, which it describes as "one of the strongest encryption standards in use today"

CrossFit founder Greg Glassman quits after backlash to George Floyd tweet

Reebok also dropped its affiliation with CrossFit this week.

Top headlines: Amazon eyes 5% stake worth $2 bn in Airtel, says report

Business Standard brings you the top headlines of the day

India's caseload tops 200K-mark, reports biggest single day spike

In other big news, the recordings obtained by the Associated Press, showed the World Health Organization struggled to get required information from China during early weeks of January

Zoom plans to roll out strong encryption but for its paid customers

Zoom has attracted millions of free and paying customers amid the pandemic, in part because users could join a meeting - something that now happens 300 million times a day - without registering

India among Houseparty's top ten markets, won't monetise user data for ads

Houseparty began picking up in India and globally in the last three months since lockdowns in most parts of the world forced people to stay at home.

VMware's Velchamy Sankarlingam to join Zoom as head of engineering unit

Sankarlingam will oversee the company's engineering, product, and dev ops teams .

Zoom's privacy glitches

Banning the platform is not the right solution