In an interview, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan details the company’s decision to rebrand Zoom Chat as Team Chat, seeking to better compete with Slack, Teams, and others (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)

September 12, 2022

Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
In an interview, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan details the company’s decision to rebrand Zoom Chat as Team Chat, seeking to better compete with Slack, Teams, and others — It’s nice to be synonymous with a product category. But Zoom CEO Eric Yuan says that expanding on its video-calling ubiquity is both an opportunity and a challenge.

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How an 8-year-old’s YouTube account and a parent activist sparked a debate in Denmark on Google’s ubiquity in schools and its handling of children’s data (Morgan Meaker/Wired)

Morgan Meaker / Wired:
How an 8-year-old’s YouTube account and a parent activist sparked a debate in Denmark on Google’s ubiquity in schools and its handling of children’s data — An 8-year-old’s YouTube snafu—and one unlikely parent activist—sparked a nationwide debate on the tech giant’s ubiquity and handling of children’s data.

September 23, 2022

Researchers say Slack and Microsoft Teams have fundamental issues vetting third-party apps and should overhaul their app model to be more like traditional OSes (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

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Researchers say Slack and Microsoft Teams have fundamental issues vetting third-party apps and should overhaul their app model to be more like traditional OSes — New research shows how third-party apps could be exploited to infiltrate these sensitive workplace tools.

September 26, 2022

Amazon is discontinuing Glow, its video calling device aimed at kids, amid lackluster sales and a shift in consumer behavior, after debuting it last year (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Amazon is discontinuing Glow, its video calling device aimed at kids, amid lackluster sales and a shift in consumer behavior, after debuting it last year — Amazon.com Inc. is discontinuing its pandemic-era kids’ video calling device amid lackluster sales and a shift in consumer behavior.

October 4, 2022

A profile of Kiwi Farms, a forum owned and operated by former 8chan admin Josh Moon, that has become synonymous with doxxing, swatting, and harassment campaigns (NBC News)

NBC News:
A profile of Kiwi Farms, a forum owned and operated by former 8chan admin Josh Moon, that has become synonymous with doxxing, swatting, and harassment campaigns — A trans streamer and a Republican congresswoman were targeted at their homes in the last month. Experts warn this is just the beginning.

September 3, 2022

Internal memo: Slack CEO and co-founder Stewart Butterfield plans to leave Salesforce in January, says the move has “nothing to do” with Bret Taylor’s departure (Ellen Thomas/Insider)

Ellen Thomas / Insider:
Internal memo: Slack CEO and co-founder Stewart Butterfield plans to leave Salesforce in January, says the move has “nothing to do” with Bret Taylor’s departure — Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield is leaving Salesforce in January. — Butterfield posted his announcement …

December 5, 2022

Slack announces Canvas, a collaborative tool that presents contextual information for each channel, helps users edit documents in-app, and more, coming in 2023 (David Pierce/The Verge)

David Pierce / The Verge:
Slack announces Canvas, a collaborative tool that presents contextual information for each channel, helps users edit documents in-app, and more, coming in 2023 — Slack is becoming a document editor. The Salesforce-owned company announced today at its developer conference that it is building …

September 20, 2022

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