Welcome back to your weekly roundup of the best news reports and stories from the last seven days.
The end of an unexpectedly chaotic year is almost in sight, and it’s time for the Unified Communication, Collaboration, and Customer Experience companies to make sure they’re ready for 2021. For some, this means planning new features, for others, this is the perfect moment to announce financial results and reflect on the changes of 2020.
This week, we’ve had plenty of interesting things to talk about at UC Today, from Magic Leap and its quest into the enterprise world to the arrival of UC Summit 2021.
Here are the posts you can’t afford to miss.
What’s Next for Magic Leap?
Magic Leap is one of the better-known innovators pioneering in the world of XR lately. The company seemed ready to transform the world when it introduced the Magic Leap One headset a little while ago. Unfortunately, the product didn’t hit the consumer magic with as much of a bang as the company had hoped. This year, the previous Magic Leap CEO, Rony Abovtiz, announced a new batch of funding for the team, worth $350 million, then subsequently stepped down from his position.
Now former Microsoft exec Peggy Johnson is at the helm, and we’re left wondering what the future might hold for Magic Leap. Though the valuation of the company continues to drop, and the team lost a number of its employees during COVID-19, the brand is positive about the future. Click here to find out what might be coming next.
Microsoft Announces AI-Based Noise Suppression
Boasting a massive 115 million daily active users, there’s no arguing with the fact that Microsoft Teams is one of the most popular enterprise collaboration tools around. One of the things that makes Teams so appealing is its commitment to constantly delivering the latest features for its customers. Active noise cancellation with AI support is the most recent feature to hit the headlines.
As Tom Arbuthnot told us, the AI-based noise suppression will use intelligent algorithms in real time to remove any unwanted noise from meetings. That means you don’t have to worry as much about a barking dog or vacuum cleaner getting in the way of your conversation. You can find out more about the new feature here.
UC Summit 2021 is On the Way
We’re thrilled to be announcing yet another incredible year of UC Summit for UC Today’s fans in 2021. If you had a chance to explore the amazing exclusive content and activities that we created for UC Summit in 2020, then have an idea of what’s coming in January 2021. Next year, we’ll be bringing you a range of wonderful daily keynote sessions, expert-led talks, and so much more. If you didn’t visit the UC Summit this year, this is your chance to discover what it’s all about.
The line-up of vendors for this year include a slew of market leaders like AudioCodes, Avaya, RingCentral, Cisco, Ribbon Communications, Poly, EPOS, IR, Shure, and more. As always, we’ll be striving to make this UC Summit bigger and better than ever. Learn more and register here.
Zoom Announces Upcoming Third Quarter Results
All eyes are on Zoom as one of the world’s biggest providers of video conferencing solutions right now, after the company announced it would be revealing it’s third quarter financial results at the end of November. During the first quarter of 2020, the revenue for Zoom grew at an impressive 169%. However, that’s nothing compared to the 355% boost that the business got in the second quarter, driven by the increasing demand for video in remote work.
Now that Zoom is almost ready to reveal it’s third quarter results, analysts are left wondering how significant the growth of the company might be. After all, even with the Zoombombing issue to contend with within the second quarter, the revenue was phenomenal. Could the third quarter reveal an even bigger transformation for Zoom? Learn more here.
Why Facebook Portal Doesn’t Support Microsoft Teams
Facebook is one of the many collaboration innovators today investing in new solutions for enterprise communication and collaboration. Workplace from Facebook has emerged as a powerful solution for enterprise social experiences. With the Portal device, Facebook even offers employees an easy and accessible way to use an all-in-one screen for collaboration and video meetings.
Recently, Facebook has announced integrations with four major video services, GoToMeeting, Cisco Webex, Zoom, and BlueJeans. However, Microsoft Teams, the enterprise tool with over 115 million daily active users, remained off the list. Why isn’t Portal supporting Microsoft Teams? Find out here.
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