Want to be more: The video call giant understands that the Corona is just a moment behind us and is developing new platforms • The goal: to offer a new alternative to Microsoft and Google
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ZOOM, the Chinese video call giant that has become a symbol of the period, is currently developing an e-mail box and calendar, according to a report in The Information.
The company understands that at the end of the Corona period, the use of video calls will fall, and the goal is to compete with Google and Microsoft, which dominate the market.
Eric Yuan, the company's CEO, does not want to continue to rely (and rightly so) solely on the company's video calling services, despite its unprecedented popularity. In order to maintain success and bring in as many users as possible before returning to routine, the plan is to create the "generation Next "of the mailbox, which will differentiate it from the competition.
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According to the company, an initial version (beta) may be released as early as the beginning of the year, with the full version expected to be released to all users in the first quarter of 2021, even before vaccinating populations in many countries around the world.
The Corona plague has almost overnight made Zoom from a marginal application of companies one of the most lucrative in the world.
At the beginning of 2020, the company was traded at a market value of only $ 19 billion.
At the beginning of September, revenues jumped 355% compared to the same period last year, with a market value of $ 125 billion - higher than the market value of the old computer company IBM.
