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Google Meet’s new feature lets users consume YouTube and Spotify together
As Google continues the great merger between its Duo and Meet video communications apps, the company today announced that it’s introducing new Apple SharePlay-like live-sharing features to Meet,
The next step in Google’s merger of Duo and Meet starts today
In June, Google told us that it would start merging its Duo video chat service for consumers with Meet, its Zoom competitor for business users. The next phase of this merger starts today. Merging two
Google starts prompting remaining Hangouts users to move to Chat
Google has announced that starting today, people who are still using Hangouts on mobile will see an in-app prompt asking them to move to Chat in Gmail or the Chat app. The company says the new prompt
Google Duo and Meet will soon become one
Google Duo, the company’s video chat service for consumers, will soon merge with Google Meet, the company’s video chat service for business users. The Duo app will soon get all of MeetR
Google Duo’s video chat app gains a SharePlay-inspired feature called ‘live sharing’
Google is introducing its own take on Apple’s SharePlay feature for FaceTime with today’s launch of a new “live sharing” feature for users of its Google Duo video calling servi
Google will let everyone migrate from Hangouts to Chat for free in 2021
Google’s strategy around its messaging apps is nothing if not messy right now (hello Hangouts, Meet, Chat, Duo and Co.), but it looks like things will get a bit easier come next year. We already
Google’s Duo video chat app gets a family mode with doodles and masks
Google today launched an update to its Duo video chat app (which you definitely shouldn’t confuse with Hangouts or Google Meet, Google’s other video, audio and text chat apps). There are p
The best video chat apps to turn social distancing into distant socializing
The vicissitudes of social distancing have taken many people by surprise, making video calls a new necessity for distant socializing. But which of the two dozen apps out there should you and your (per
Google will start retiring Hangouts for G Suite users in October
Google’s strategy around its consumer messaging services remains baffling, especially since it killed off Allo (yet kept Duo on life support). Today, the company clarified the timeline of the tr
Google Duo audio calling now available worldwide
In March, Google announced it was beginning to roll out support for audio-only calling in its FaceTime and Whatsapp competitor, Duo, which had previously focused on video calls. Initially, support for
Google Duo’s new audio calls feature is now available to all users
Google’s Duo messaging app recently got voice calls in Brazil, but now the feature is rolling out to users across the rest of the world. The initial launch came as part of a series of product l
Truecaller adds payments and Google Duo video calls in move to rival WhatsApp in India
Sweden-based startup Truecaller made its name as a nifty mobile app that helps people filter out unwanted phone calls and messaging, but now it is making a move to become a platform. At a press e
Google Allo gets support for split-screen mode, app shortcuts and a ‘Stranger Things’ tie-in
Halloween is just around the corner and if there was one horror-themed phenomenon this year, it was Netflix’s nostalgia-driven Stranger Things. Google has now teamed up with Netflix to bring a S
Allo brings Google’s smarts to messaging
Google first announced Allo and Duo, its new messaging and video chat apps, at its I/O developer conference earlier this year. Duo launched about a month ago and today it’s Allo’s turn.
Google launches Duo video-calling app, a dull cross-OS FaceTime rival
Can Google spring back from its social failures with a bare-bones video-calling app that unites iOS and Android users? Today it's launching Duo, which lets you video call people one-on-one via their p