Sources: Zoom has begun developing a web email service for businesses, and may trial it next year, and is also considering building a calendar app
and how 2020 changed Zoom forever Tweets: Sharon O'Dea / @sharonodea : But y tho? (Seriously, no one wants this. Changing your primary email is a PITA so adding gmail won't encourage anyone to upgrade...
A graduate of Slack's Next Chapter initiative, which helps former prison inmates land tech jobs, recounts how he managed to land a full-time job at the company
Jesse Aguirre's workday at Slack starts with a standard engineering meeting—programmers call them “standups”—where he and his co-workers plan the day's agenda. Tweets: @csinschools , @andrewnebus , @s...
Eden, a B2B workplace management platform that connects office managers with service providers in 25 markets including Berlin and London, raises $25M Series B
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch : Tweets: @sameerpatel Tweets: Sameer Patel / @sameerpatel : What a great great idea for a marketplace. https://twitter.com/...
Chronosphere, founded by two ex-Uber engineers, raises $11M Series A for a scalable, cloud-native production monitoring tool able to handle Uber-level scale
Ron Miller / TechCrunch : Tweets: @sameerpatel Tweets: Sameer Patel / @sameerpatel : “Uber-level scale” is the new “Uber for X”. Seeing this over and over again. https://twitter.com/...
Don Valentine, founder of Sequoia Capital, dies at 87
Don Valentine, founder of Sequoia, RIP Dave Morin / @davemorin : He created something that inspires entrepreneurs to both change the world and to achieve their potential. And, I have always loved his ...
California passes landmark bill that requires gig economy workers to be treated as employees, going into effect Jan 1, affecting companies like Uber and Lyft
what's next? Mathew Katz / Digital Trends : Uber says drivers aren't an essential part of its business Danielle Abril / Fortune : Uber, Lyft, and Other Gig Economy Companies Push Back on New Californi...
Slack announces new administrator features for Plus and Enterprise customers, including announcement channels and workflow automation
Slack is making it easier for administrators to limit how employees talk to each other with notification channels that form a new kind of Slack chat space. Tweets: @sameerpatel Tweets: Sameer Patel / ...
WhatsApp rolls out radio campaigns across 46 Hindi stations in India asking users to check the veracity of the information they receive before forwarding
PTI / Times of India : Tweets: @sameerpatel , @shashidigital , and @sub8u Tweets: Sameer Patel / @sameerpatel : New media using old media to drive awareness about the proper use of new media. What ev...
Fidelity marks down value of its stakes in Dropbox by 10%, CloudFlare by 31%, Twilio by 13%, DocuSign by 17% from December to January
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg Business : Tweets: @jeremiahlee and @sameerpatel Tweets: Jeremiah Lee / @jeremiahlee : Fidelity is bullish on Pinterest, but not Cloudflare. That's some investor bulls**t....