Zoom Video Communications, Inc. announced that Greg Tomb will join the company as President effective June 7, 2022. Tomb brings more than 20 years of experience and comes to Zoom from Google Cloud, where he was most recently Vice President of Sales, Google Workspace, SMB, Data & Analytics, Geo Enterprises, and Security Sales, the statement…
Zoom Video Communications, Inc. announced that Matthew Saxon will join the company as its Chief People Officer, effective immediately. Saxon brings more than 20 years of experience in human resources and people operations. He was most recently the Vice President of People Operations at Meta, and previously was Senior Vice President of Compensation, HR Operations, and Shared Services at…
Zoom Video Communications, Inc. announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Five9, Inc., a leading provider of the intelligent cloud contact center, in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $14.7 billion. The acquisition is expected to help enhance Zoom’s presence with enterprise customers and allow it to accelerate its long-term growth opportunity…
Zoom Video Communications, Inc. announced Ricky Kapur will join the company as the Head of APAC, effective June 21. Reporting directly to Zoom’s Head of International Abe Smith, Kapur will define and lead the company’s go-to-market strategy for key APAC markets: Australia and New Zealand, ASEAN, China, Hong Kong SAR, India, Korea, and Taiwan — exclusive…
Nineleaps, a Bengaluru-based product engineering company that provides application services and accelerates product development for a range of customers, announced that it has recently conducted a two day Virtual Hackathon for its employees working remotely in more than 75 cities across India. The Virtual Hackathon saw participation of over 183 employees of Nineleaps split across 24…
Zoom, a provider of videotelephony and online chat services through a cloud-based peer-to-peer software platform, announced it has acquired message encryption and security startup Keybase. Financial details of the transaction remain undisclosed. Post acquisition, Keybase Co-founder Max Krohn will be leading Zoom’s security engineering team, and they will be reporting directly to Zoom Founder and…
The novel coronavirus outbreak which originated in China, has now spread to almost every corner of the world and has led to the world’s largest work-from-home experiment. With employees working remotely and communication getting hampered by distances, there has been a surge on the usage of video conferencing apps like Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and…
As the novel coronavirus pandemic led to the world’s largest work-from-home experiment, video conferencing apps like Zoom and Google Meet saw a sudden rise in their user database. Organizations around the world are now moving ahead with their daily tasks via video conferencing through these apps. But their usage has also drawn severe criticism from…