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Zoom acquires Ireland-based employee communications platform Workvivo

April 14, 2023

Zoom today announced that it has acquired Workvivo, a six-year-old Irish startup focused on improving companies’ internal communications and culture. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. While many enterprise communication tools — such as Zoom — are all about the real-time, Workvivo is very much about the asynchronous. Indeed, it’s less about project-specific collaboration and […]

Zoom acquires Ireland-based employee communications platform Workvivo by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

Spotify is shutting down Heardle, the Wordle-like music guessing game it bought last year

April 14, 2023

Spotify is closing down Heardle, the Wordle-inspired music guessing game it acquired last July for an undisclosed sum. Similar to Wordle, Heardle offers players six tries to guess a popular song — but instead of typing in different letters to form words, players listen to a song’s intro to guess the artist and title. At […]

Spotify is shutting down Heardle, the Wordle-like music guessing game it bought last year by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: cancer-fighting bacteria, and ChatGPT in the classroom

April 14, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Bacteria can be engineered to fight cancer in mice. Human trials are coming. The news: There are trillions of microbes living in and on our bodies—and we might be able to modify them…

MEPs raise concerns over draft EU-US data transfer deal

April 14, 2023

A shiny new data transfers deal between the European Union and the United States aimed at fixing costly legal uncertainty over exports of personal data isn’t in place yet but the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee is predicting the incoming EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) won’t survive a legal challenge — just as its two […]

MEPs raise concerns over draft EU-US data transfer deal by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch