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In our new socially distanced world, video chat reigns supreme as the primary form of communication for many workplaces and groups of family and friends looking to keep in touch. Whether you use Zoom, FaceTime, Skype, or Google Hangouts, Meet or Duo, you’ve probably noticed that despite being able to see everyone’s face, it’s still …

Zoom is backtracking on a blog post last week that said the videoconferencing app had racked up 300 million daily users. Instead, the company now says it has “300 million daily meeting participants,” a different metric that counts people for every Zoom meeting they attend in a day.  The change was earlier spotted by The Verge. After the publication reached out …

Amid coronavirus lockdowns and quarantines, video chat app Marco Polo saw a 16x increase in new signups and a 3x increase in activity. To aid in the increase in business costs, the free video chat app is adding a subscription service for users who want to upgrade their service. The new subscription services, called Marco Polo Plus, includes HD video, …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Google on Wednesday said it’s making its teleconferencing service, called Google Meet, free to consumers. The move takes aim at Zoom, the rival video chat service that’s become a household name during the stay-at-home era spurred by the novel coronavirus. Previously, Meet was …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Facebook-owned Instagram is adding a way for users to create and donate to fundraisers during live videos as more people turn to these real-time broadcasts while they’re staying at home to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. The release of the new …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. James McConnell didn’t know much about Facebook’s Portal until Nan Owen, his 91-year-old neighbor, needed help setting up her video chat device last month as the UK locked down to combat the coronavirus. Owen’s active social life — friends and family would stop …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Facebook is releasing a new feature that lets you video chat with multiple people through Messenger even if you don’t have a social media account, a move that could help the company compete with popular videoconferencing app Zoom. The world’s largest social network …

To help its users stay in touch during the coronavirus pandemic and after, Telegram will add group video calls this year to its popular messaging app, the company said Friday. Telegram also noted that its app — available on Android, iOS, Windows and Mac, as well as through a web browser — now has 400 million monthly users, up from 300 million …

Update, April 30: Zoom has updated its original blog post to clarify that it has 300 million daily meeting participants, a metric that unlike daily users counts people for every meeting they attend in a day.  Zoom experienced another surge in daily meeting participants this month, jumping from 200 million in March to 300 million in the last three weeks, …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. If you’re one of the many people now working at home during the coronavirus pandemic, you know how important a reliable home internet connection is. If your network slows, you can’t complain to your IT department. Instead, it’s your internet service provider that …