Mark Zuckerberg, president and creator of Facebook Inc., arrives for a House Financial Providers Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019.
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The addition of these popular video-conferencing apps must be a significant advantage for the Portal, among the social media companys couple of plays in hardware together with the Oculus virtual-reality headsets.
— CNBCs Jordan Novet contributed to this report..
Video-conferencing apps have seen significant upticks in usage due to more people working from home as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Zooms mobile app had 173 million monthly active users in May, up from a mere 14 million in March, according to app-analytics business Apptopia. Webex had more than 500 million users who generated 25 billion conference minutes in April, triple the volume in February, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins informed experts throughout the companys quarterly profits hire May.
Facebook announced Wednesday that video conferencing apps headlined by Zoom will be coming to its Portal video-calling devices in a few weeks..
Presently, Portal can be used to make video calls via Messenger, WhatsApp and Workplace, Facebooks business communication software..
Facebook presented its very first Portal devices in 2018, but they initially struggled to acquire adoption due to privacy concerns. Portal systems gained some traction earlier this year, selling out online following work-from-home orders.
Zoom, BlueJeans, LogMeIns GoToMeeting and Ciscos Webex will get here on the Portal Mini, Portal and Portal+ in September. The video-calling services will show up on the Portal television “in the future.”.
