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Popular video conferencing company, Zoom is Now Worth More Than the World’s 7 Biggest Airlines
The Visual Capitalist ^ | 05/17/2020

Posted on 05/17/2020 8:51:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 05/17/2020 8:51:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Well, yeah, but a lemonade stand is worth more than the world's largest seven airlines right now.

Just kidding! Just a li'l joke there. Please, we don't need a hundred posts proving me wrong. I was jes' havin' a little fun here.

2 posted on 05/17/2020 8:54:11 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well heck yeah. An opportunity to rat out your neighbors if you see something “offensive” during a ‘zoom’ video conference.


3 posted on 05/17/2020 8:54:42 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: SeekAndFind
a spate of “Zoom Bombing” incidents, where uninvited people hijacked meetings, brought the app’s security measures under scrutiny.

This problem has been fixed. Now, only the Chinese Communist Party can listen in and record meetings. See, it's all better now.

4 posted on 05/17/2020 8:56:25 AM PDT by centurion316 (.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I am entirely dissatisfied with Zoom’s lack of security and its routing traffic through China (one link of many: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8216867/Zoom-let-users-opt-data-routing-China.html) and refuse to use it in my home network.


5 posted on 05/17/2020 8:59:08 AM PDT by No.6
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RE: I am entirely dissatisfied with Zoom’s lack of security and its routing traffic through China (

There are alternatives. But I don’t know if you want Bill Gates to be even richer by using Microsoft Teams.


6 posted on 05/17/2020 9:01:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind
I've used zoom for some Church related meetings. I don't pay anything to use it.

How can they make money? Sounds like a good short

7 posted on 05/17/2020 9:01:13 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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I've used zoom for some Church related meetings. I don't pay anything to use it. How can they make money? Sounds like a good short

If a product is "free," then YOU are the product, i.e., tracking data, usage data, etc...all within the context of the (non) Privacy Statement.

8 posted on 05/17/2020 9:04:16 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: SeekAndFind

What ever happened to NetMeeting?


9 posted on 05/17/2020 9:04:19 AM PDT by Paladin2
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What ever happened to NetMeeting?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_NetMeeting


10 posted on 05/17/2020 9:05:44 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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What ever happened to NetMeeting?”

Right, there are probably a dozen work alike applications that are not hooked into the ChiComs. You could probably even scale up face time.


11 posted on 05/17/2020 9:11:27 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Texas Eagle
Well, yeah, but a lemonade stand is worth more than the world's largest seven airlines right now.

Please give me the name and location of this lemonade stand, so that I may report them to the neighborhood Gestapo family center.

Thank you, citizen of the world.


12 posted on 05/17/2020 9:15:04 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Why would M$ extinguish a killer app?


13 posted on 05/17/2020 9:18:32 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: bagster
Please give me the name and location of this lemonade stand, so that I may report them to the neighborhood Gestapo family center.

1060 West Addison St.

14 posted on 05/17/2020 9:20:03 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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RE: What ever happened to NetMeeting?

Microsoft NetMeeting is a discontinued VoIP and multi-point videoconferencing client included in many versions of Microsoft Windows (from Windows 95 OSR2 to Windows XP).

Today, Microsoft promotes the use of their Teleconferencing products that compete with Zoom: TEAMS and SKYPE.


15 posted on 05/17/2020 9:20:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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Couldn’t similar apps such as Skype make a few modifications, so that they too could host several people at once?
That seems to be the main difference between Tik Tok and older models. The common format reminds me of The Brady Bunch or Hollywood Squares.


16 posted on 05/17/2020 9:22:26 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: IYAS9YAS
1060 West Addison St.

Thank you, citizen.

Please stop by our offices for your extra portion of rice.


17 posted on 05/17/2020 9:23:13 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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RE: Couldn’t similar apps such as Skype make a few modifications, so that they too could host several people at once?

Skype For Business CAN host several people at once.

Microsoft’s TEAMS is also used for this purpose.


18 posted on 05/17/2020 9:23:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: lee martell

https://www.skype.com/en/free-conference-call/


19 posted on 05/17/2020 9:24:24 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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Well, being larger than an airline today isn’t hard since they have experience a 96% reduction in revenue.


20 posted on 05/17/2020 9:30:28 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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