Messenger App Enhancements and YouTube's Shorts: Challenges in Competing with TikTok

Zoom apologizes, but also reveals some INSANE growth numbers. Facebook Messenger comes to desktop. YouTube wants to clone TikTok. Apple let’s some people avoid the App Store tax. More gross firings by teleconference and a timely interesting raise.

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Links:

• A Message to Our Users (Zoom Blog)
• Facebook debuts standalone Messenger app on Mac and PC (Engadget)
• 'Content network effect' makes TikTok tough to copy (TechCrunch)
• YouTube Plans ‘Shorts’ to Rival TikTok (The Information)
• Apple Lets Some Video Apps Sell Shows Without Taking 30% Cut (Bloomberg)
• 'It Felt Like a Black Mirror Episode' The Inside Account of How Bird Laid off 406 People in Two Minutes via a Zoom Webinar (dot.LA)
• Notion, Maker of Collaboration Software, Raises $50 Million (NYTimes)

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