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I get annoyed by all the jokes people make about Google killing things willy-nilly. I think that’s because I’m so deep into the ecosystem that these kinds of changes usually directly affect me. Google ...

Google’s history with messaging apps and products, is pretty legendary, and not in a good way. Today, the company announced that it will be combining two of its video-calling apps – Duo and Meet – ...

Google on Wednesday said that it's merging Duo, its video calling app, with its videoconferencing app Meet. Later this year, the Duo app will be renamed Google Meet, creating a single, free video ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A company called Google just released a new chat app… Wait — scratch that. We’ve all heard it before. Many times. But stick with me for a sec, ’cause we need ...

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Only a handful of teleconferencing apps stand out. Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype, and Apple FaceTime are among the most widely recognized. While FaceTime and Skype lean more toward personal connections ...

Google is officially kicking off the merger of its two video chat apps, Google Meet and Google Duo. Google announced the merger in June, with the plan to keep the Google Meet brand name while merging ...

At the start of August, Google replaced the Duo logo with Meet’s four-colored icon only to bring it back due to user confusion. With the latest update to Google Meet, the Duo icon is once again gone ...