Video is really, really important at Zoom. Let us put it this way: The engineer ultimately responsible for our video quality and reliability sits right next to our CEO. The two of them literally share an office. It’s no wonder this PhD engineer and his team obsess over the visual experience of Zoom, spending day […]

Yep, it’s Back to the Future Day, that impossibly distant date into the future that was so difficult to imagine — October 21st, 2015 — and yes, some of us are starting to feel old right about now 🙂 As you might recall there were a number of crazy inventions which were common-place in Back […]

When you’re working independently, if you just sit around and wait for a client to pop up, you’re going to be waiting for a very long time. Independent businesses have to really put in the work for people to take notice, and for this reason you need a special set of skills (like Liam Neeson’s, […]

Despite the invention of the telegraph, the telephone, and the Internet, in-person interactions are very much alive in office settings. One could say that the act of walking up to a co-worker and speaking to them still has a monopoly over most other forms of communication. Interpersonal communication has remained largely…in-person. There is nothing wrong […]

Some of the best moments we have are when we spend time communicating with our colleagues and brainstorming exciting new ideas. The advent of video communications has allowed for this kind of thing to happen instantly with groups of people that live entire oceans apart. It has been no easy feat to bring about this […]

The invention of the telephone has made the world a smaller place and was one of the key drivers of the internationalization of commerce. If you have clients, friends, partners, or students in another country that you communicate regularly with, you are riding on the backbone of communications technology that spurred a revolution the moment […]

We at Zoom are so proud when our video collaboration software is used by people to make the world a better place. That’s why today we want to share the story of the Senior Learning Network with you. Senior Learning Network is a mission-driven company focused on providing interactive video conferencing to senior residential and […]

A long time ago, IT administrators were probably the most underrated people in a company. It was a thankless job where getting a simple NAT set up could take hours. Today, the technology a company uses largely dictates its chances of success in the market. The IT staff, CTOs, and CIOs of a company now […]

The typical conversation on video would usually play out like this in a large organization: A person walks into a room with an enormous screen, flashy audio hardware, and a dedicated system running the entire back end. A “call” is made, and the meeting starts. In movies, this is still the way that we depict […]