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08-18-2016, 08:00 PM
HipChat beats Slack to the punch of providing its own one-tap video conferencing
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The battle just got beefier between two of the most popular workplace messaging apps.
HipChat is releasing a video conferencing system, the company an**unced Thursday. The update allows HipChat users to video chat with the click of one button and gives users more control on who they want to see. That feature is currently unavailable in Slack (http://mashable.com/2016/08/16/slack-outage-anxiety/), the darling of chat apps.*
Prior to the update, users could video chat but they had to rely on a third-party integration, such as BlueJeans, HYFY and Google Hangouts. Those require having separate accounts, take more time to start and give users less control over who they see when.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/18/hipchat-vs-slack-video/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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The battle just got beefier between two of the most popular workplace messaging apps.
HipChat is releasing a video conferencing system, the company an**unced Thursday. The update allows HipChat users to video chat with the click of one button and gives users more control on who they want to see. That feature is currently unavailable in Slack (http://mashable.com/2016/08/16/slack-outage-anxiety/), the darling of chat apps.*
Prior to the update, users could video chat but they had to rely on a third-party integration, such as BlueJeans, HYFY and Google Hangouts. Those require having separate accounts, take more time to start and give users less control over who they see when.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/18/hipchat-vs-slack-video/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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