TeamViewer has announced an integration with Google Meet, enabling seamless remote support and enhancing workplace collaboration. Now, instead of the traditional "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" shouted across a video call, IT wizards can swoop in mid-meeting, take over the problem child computer and wrestle it into submission without anyone needing to install anything or — heaven forbid — open a second app. End-users, blissfully unaware of the technological sorcery happening behind the scenes, get whisked into the session via an automatic download that happens faster than you can say "Why isn’t my camera working?" The whole setup transforms tech support from an awkward back-and-forth into a seamless, slightly uncanny display of remote omnipresence, leaving more time for teams to get back to the important business of pretending to pay attention.

UiPath has released the enhanced agent for Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams, allowing joint customers access to UiPath enterprise-grade automation capabilities from anywhere they use Copilot for Microsoft 365 or Teams. It's built on UiPath’s own large language model-based digital assistant Autopilot and its web app Orchestrator. Autopilot can also access UI or API automations built by a user or by their organization’s center of excellence and easily run them as part of a user’s workflow. The agent will help workers to interact directly with UiPath Autopilot from Teams and will offer a broad range of capabilities, like suggesting which automations are needed to complete tasks, filling out parameters from context, recommending next steps and stitching together automations to automate complex workflows. Employees benefit from adding UiPath Autopilot as a collaborator while staying in Teams where they’re already working, while making use of enterprise knowledge via access to Microsoft Graph and the robust set of automations from UiPath’s platform.

Skype's official X-Twitter account announced that the messenger will shut down in May 2025, encouraging users to switch to Microsoft Teams. Skype was launched in 2003. Microsoft acquired Skype in 2011 for $8.5 billion and since then, the company has been gradually abandoning its own communications products, such as Windows Live Messenger. In 2015 Skype was integrate into Windows 10, but the integration was unsuccessful. In 2017, Microsoft introduced Teams - an enterprise communications platform based on Skype technology, to compete with services like Slack. Since then the company has been pushing Teams hard, which became evident with the release of Windows 11, where Teams, not Skype, received deep integration into the operation system.

In a world where freelancers are navigating the vast, treacherous sea of commissions, delays and the looming specter of unfair disputes, traditional platforms like Fiverr and Upwork have earned their reputation as rather unhelpful lifeboats - often charging fees so high they’d make a bank robber blush and taking their sweet time with payments like a cat deciding whether or not to knock something off a shelf. The new freelance marketplace Bloclance wants to turn the freelancing universe upside down with blockchain. By harnessing the power of smart contracts on the Base network—a particularly snazzy Ethereum L2 blockchain—Bloclance allows freelancers and clients to engage in agreements that are as transparent as a freshly cleaned window. The system automatically releases payment when milestones are hit. And unlike the traditional platforms that greedily pocket up to 25% of the spoils, Bloclance just gets on with it, ensuring everyone gets their fair share without the wallet-emptying theatrics.

Recruiting software Greenhouse has added new tools that help HR specialists schedule faster and interview better. In particular they allow to give candidates the freedom to reschedule their self-scheduled interviews, customise availability requests and self-schedule pages with your company's branding, build reports based on scheduling activities, automatically suggest a time that works for all interviewers directly after a candidate submits their availability, gain more control over your calendar with the ability to set interview time preferences, auto-replace interviewers if there’s a conflict by building interview groups in advance, strengthen candidate interviews with tools to manage interviewer training, use customisable dashboards to highlight the metrics that matter most to your organisation.

Amazon has decided to discontinue its alternative to Zoom and Google Meet - Chime. Launched in 2017 with a focus on business usage, Chime had little adoption outside of Amazon. This factor largely contributed to its shutdown, a spokesperson told the outlet. Existing customers will still be able to schedule and host meetings, add and manage users and take advantage of features in the Amazon Chime administration console, a company blog post explains. The Amazon Chime SDK, however, will not be impacted. Customers are advised to delete their data before the shutdown and make the move to another web meetings service. Amazon recommends other solutions like AWS Wickr, Zoom or Salesforce’s Slack.

Toggl has introduced a more flexible way to track project and client profitability. Users can now create charts that include cost, profit and fixed-fee profit calculations. This allows to identify when your company is operating at a loss or profit—and pinpoint areas for optimization. Besides, Toggl adds new filters for data export. The previous filters only gave a part of the picture. Whenever you had to export to clean data, there was a hidden cost — time spent, clarity lost, details missed. New Flexible Filters eliminate that cost. You can choose from 14 filters, apply custom conditions like “is not,” “is empty,” or “contains,” and set up precise “and/or” logic to shape data your way.

Identity security company CyberArk has acquired identity governance and administration (IGA) platform Zilla Security in a deal worth up to $175 million. CyberArk specializes in access management, including privileged access security which helps organizations protect sensitive data and critical infrastructure from external (and internal) threats. Zilla is a nimbler cloud-native player that has been adding more automation and AI-enabled features to the mix, making it an alluring proposition for a much larger company founded in the days before SaaS or cloud computing had taken hold. Thus, CyberArk hopes to "reshape identity governance with scalable automation that delivers compliance and helps maximize security for the modern enterprise".