Chime service reportedly bolstered with fresh startup blood<\/b>
Amazon has reportedly made another acquisition to build up its communications service, Chime, by snagging a startup by the name of Do.com.
Chime is a part of AWS and it offers extensive videoconferencing capabilities and a cloud-based platform for organising and holding meetings.
Do.com would further bolster this real-time comms offering, as the startup\u2019s web and mobile apps were focused on helping organise meetings, and the management of all manner of elements around them \u2013 for example prep notes, facilitating reports for non-attendees and so forth.
Note that this move was spotted by TechCrunch , and has far from been confirmed by Amazon. Indeed, Do.com has seemingly made moves to hide all the evidence that the tech site uncovered pointing to the deal.
That includes a Do.com blog post which announced the closure of the whole service following an acquisition by an unspecified firm \u2013 in fact the entire blog site has been taken down \u2013 and various LinkedIn staff profiles that indicate Do.com employees are now working on Chime.
Plus the company\u2019s LinkedIn entry itself, which stated: \u2018Now a part of Amazon Chime.\u2019
All those references have been removed since TechCrunch published its report and contacted Amazon for a comment, which the company declined to offer.
TechCrunch further notes that it couldn\u2019t ever get a confirmation from Amazon about the previous acquisition of Biba for the core videoconferencing element of Chime \u2013 although that startup\u2019s website now clearly states: \u2018Biba has been replaced by Amazon Chime.\u2019 And the site simply links through to the AWS Chime page.
So it would certainly seem that big things are planned for Chime in terms of tackling rivals like Google Hangouts, Slack or indeed Microsoft Teams \u2013 which isn’t officially out yet, but launches next week \u2013 but Amazon simply doesn\u2019t want to talk about it.
Not yet, anyway.
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