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- Zoom, a teleconferencing application typically used by businesses, has become the hot new way for people to connect while social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.
- Zoom has seemingly replaced services like Google Hangouts and Microsoft's Skype as most people's go-to platform for video calls.
- "We have seen a large increase in the number of free users, meeting minutes, and new video use cases," CEO Eric Yuan said in the company's most recent investor call.
- Zoom is the world's 2nd most downloaded mobile app, behind only TikTok, according to app-analytics firm Sensor Tower.
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Are you using Zoom yet?
Chances are, if you're one of the tens of millions of people currently working from home or out of school due to the coronavirus pandemic, you've quickly become familiar with the teleconferencing software.
But beyond being a productivity tool, Zoom has become a place where friends are organizing virtual happy hours and where families are staying in touch as the coronavirus pandemic keeps us all separated and indoors.
Whatever the case may be, Zoom is suddenly everywhere.
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