Projects tagged: INFRASTRUCTURE # Zoom

DESCRIPTION

Zoom Cloud Meetings (commonly shortened to Zoom) is a proprietary video teleconferencing software program developed by Zoom. Zoom is a software company that offers a communications platform that connects people through video, voice, chat, and content sharing. It has a cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, collaboration, chat, and webinars across mobile devices, desktops, telephones, and room systems. Zoom was founded BY Eric Yuan in 2011 and is headquartered in San Jose, California, United States.

FACTS (some)

#1 By the end of the first month after its release, Zoom had 400,000 users, which rose to 1 million by May 2013.

#2 During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a major increase in the use of Zoom for remote work, distance education, and online social relations. In 2020, Zoom was the 5th most downloaded mobile app worldwide, at 477 million downloads.

#3 On March 22, 2021, Zoom announced that it would start selling its videoconferencing technology as a white-label product, so other companies can embed it in their own products, with the calls running over Zoom but not carrying the company’s brand name.

Curators

Marco De Mutiis,   Jon Uriarte,  

Project title

Screen Walks

Year

2020