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…