Google Meet, Careem layoff, and WFH desk ideas
Hi Tech Geeks Community,
Circling back on what we shared earlier, Google Meet is now free for everyone and while we are at it, Zoom saw 200 million daily meeting participants (not DAU) in March. This month, this figure had risen to 300 million. This compares to 10 million in December 2019. The UK cabinet and 90,000 schools in 20 countries were among new users of the app.
In other news, Careem laid off 31% of its workforce as the business took an alarming hit due to Covid19. The CEO, Mudassir Sheikha announced that affected employees will receive at least three months’ severance pay, one month of equity vesting and, where relevant, extended visa and medical insurance through the end of the year, on the company's blog post.
In this week’s newsletter, we’re curating tidbits of everything. Keep watching this space!
Highlights From The Tech Geeks Community
Lots of ideas in the community to set up your work-from-home desk.
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Work from Home Table Setup ideas. Click here to follow the post.
Azeem Abbas shared an interesting AR Cut & Paste video. Click here to follow the post.
Jibran Yousuf Khan introduced Nonfig, The "Google Docs" for your software configurations. Click here to follow the post.
From all over the World
How Microsoft tackles the 30,000 bugs its 47,000 developers generate each month
Facebook launches Messenger Rooms to take on Houseparty and Zoom
Amazon buying thermal cameras from Chinese firm on US blacklist
Tesla tumbles after Musk tweets that stock is too high
GeekSource Lab
Google Maps Platform COVID-19 Developer Resource Hub
Build with Watson: The AI for business
With GitHub Education, your work will speak for itself.
Join the Microsoft 365 Developer Program
Events
Microsoft Build - For developers by developers
Courses
AWS Machine Learning Scholarship Program
Hackathon
Going Online With Google - For Businesses in Pakistan
1st Webinar - What Going Online Looks Like
Until next week, Ciao!
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Partially curated by Babur Waris
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