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| March 2025 |
Discord
Discord released a Social SDK to allow games to incorporate Discord's social features and facilitate in-game communications between Discord and non-Discord users.
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| February 28 2025 |
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft declared the retirement of Skype for May 5, offering users the option to export or migrate data to Microsoft Teams.
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| 2024 |
Zoom
Democrats used Zoom to host mega-rallies for Kamala Harris' presidential campaign, raising millions of dollars, with one rally breaking Zoom's 100,000 attendee cap and requiring a special extension to 200,000 participants.
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| 2024 |
Source-Connect
Source Elements received the NAB Show Product of the Year Award in the Remote Production category for the upcoming Source-Connect 4.
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| October 8 2024 |
Discord
Turkey blocked Discord, following a decision by the Ankara 1st Criminal Court of Peace.
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| October 8 2024 |
Discord
Russia officially blocked access to the Discord platform.
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| September 2024 |
Discord
Russian regulator Roskomnadzor demanded Discord remove 947 posts containing illegal content and imposed a 3.5 million roubles (USD$37,493) fine.
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| September 2024 |
Discord
The Federal Trade Commission released a report analyzing data collection practices of 9 tech companies, including Discord, highlighting concerns about user and non-user data practices that could potentially expose individuals to various risks such as identity theft, stalking, discrimination, and mental health issues.
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| June 2024 |
Microsoft Teams
The EU Commission formally charged Microsoft with antitrust violations for bundling Microsoft Teams into the Office suite.
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| May 2024 | Cisco and Tata Communications partnered to launch Webex Calling in India. |
| April 1 2024 |
Discord
On April Fool's Day, Discord accidentally broke the YouTube 24-hour view record with a looping announcement video, though the views were later removed.
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| March 2024 |
Discord
A joint investigation by The Washington Post, Wired, Der Spiegel, and Recorder exposed extensive child grooming, sexual abuse, and murder conducted by the group 764 on Discord, spanning cases in Germany, United States, and Romania.
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| March 9 2024 |
Google Meet
Samsung Smart TV compatibility for Google Meet was discontinued
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| February 22 2024 |
ConnectWise ScreenConnect
Version 6 of the self-hosted edition server application of ScreenConnect reported a vulnerability. A patch was made available for the latest version (23) on the same day, offering a temporary free upgrade.
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| January 2024 |
Discord
Discord laid off 170 employees (17% of staff) after a five-fold increase in employees between 2020 and 2024.
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| 2023 |
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft updated Teams to automatically open links from chats in Microsoft Edge, overriding the user's default browser settings.
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| 2023 |
Discord
The Midjourney server became the largest Discord server, surpassing 15 million members.
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| 2023 |
Discord
Discord paused its server verification program for maintenance.
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| 2023 |
AnyDesk
AnyDesk established an 'Anti-Fraud Task Force' in collaboration with prominent scam baiters including Jim Browning, Kitboga, and Scammer Payback to combat technical support scams and remote-access software abuse.
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| 2023 |
Source-Connect
Co-founder Rebekah Wilson was nominated for the Business Leader Award at the Rise Awards.
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| December 1 2023 |
Zoom
A version of Zoom for Apple TV was released, requiring an external iOS device as the camera.
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| November 13 2023 | Confirmed that user registration and password reset restrictions remain in place. |
| October 2023 |
Discord
Discord added Avatar Decorations and Profile Themes to their Shop, allowing users to purchase animated decorations for their profiles.
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| August 2023 |
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft responded to the EU investigation by announcing that Teams would become an optional part of the Microsoft 365 bundle, and committed to providing more information to software developers to facilitate Teams user migration to competing software with their existing data.
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| August 2023 |
Discord
Discord laid off 40 employees (4% of staff) as part of a restructuring effort.
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| August 16 2023 | End of the period when new user registrations and existing user password resets were disabled. |
| July 2023 |
Microsoft Teams
The EU Commission initiated an anti-trust investigation into Microsoft's potential unfair market practices related to Microsoft Teams, examining whether the company leveraged its office suite market power to increase Teams sales and harm competitors.
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| June 2023 |
Discord
NBC News reported 35 cases of adults being charged with kidnapping, grooming, or sexual assault involving the Discord platform, and identified 165 cases of prosecution for child sexual exploitation material sharing.
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| June 2023 |
Discord
Discord launched Media Channels, which are exclusively restricted to videos and images.
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| May 2023 |
Discord
Discord made most stickers free to all users, discontinued the ability to purchase stickers, and refunded users who had previously purchased them.
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| May 2023 |
Discord
Discord transitioned from its discriminator-based username system to a new handle-based system, requiring all users to select new usernames and removing the four-digit tag.
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| May 15 2023 |
ConnectWise ScreenConnect
ConnectWise Control was rebranded back to ConnectWise ScreenConnect.
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| March 29 2023 |
HCL Sametime
Release of HCL Sametime and HCL Sametime Premium 12.0.1 Fix Pack 1 (FP1)
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| March 13 2023 | Beginning of a period where new user registrations and existing user password resets were disabled. |
| 2022 |
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft discontinued the Linux version of Teams.
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| 2022 |
Discord
Discord released an official 'app directory' to allow server owners to easily add bots to their servers directly within the Discord platform.
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| 2022 |
Google Meet
Google Meet launched compatibility with Android TV, replacing the Google Duo app
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| November 2022 |
Discord
The CNIL fined Discord €800,000 for GDPR violations related to data protection and user privacy.
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| November 15 2022 |
HCL Sametime
Release of HCL Sametime and HCL Sametime Premium version 12.0.1
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| November 1 2022 |
Google Meet
Google Meet replaces Google Duo, with the Duo mobile app being renamed Meet and the original Meet app to be phased out.
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| October 2022 |
Discord
Discord replaced the 'Discord Nitro Classic' subscription tier with a new 'Discord Nitro Basic' tier priced at $2.99, offering a subset of features from the $9.99 'Nitro' tier.
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| October 2022 | StarLeaf ceased all operations. |
| October 18 2022 |
Google Meet
Google Meet offered compatibility with Samsung Smart TV
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| September 2022 |
BigBlueButton
Released BigBlueButton 2.5 update. BigBlueButton was directly embedded into the Moodle 4.0 core, the largest Learning Management System.
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| September 2022 |
Discord
Discord launched Forum Channels, bringing an Internet forum-like experience to the platform and allowing for longer, separate conversations.
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| August 2022 |
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams updated its chat feature to include a 'chat with yourself' functionality, enabling users to privately organize files, notes, comments, images, and videos within a personal chat tab.
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| August 2022 |
Google Meet
The merger of Duo into Meet began, with the Duo mobile app being renamed Meet, and the Duo web app redirecting to the Google Meet web app.
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| August 12 2022 |
Zoom
Wired magazine reported three security vulnerabilities in the Zoom Mac OS desktop app discovered by researcher Patrick Wardle, which could allow privilege escalation attacks through the app's auto-update feature.
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| June 2022 |
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft released an AI-powered update for Teams that improves call audio quality by eliminating background feedback loops and canceling non-vocal audio.
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