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Google Hangouts' new features make work meetings slightly less annoying

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With Meet and Chat, Hangouts rolls out video conferencing and chat rooms for businesses. Because synergy!
Planning the sales department’s summer luau/layoffs gets even easier with Meet.
The only thing worse than actual meetings is meeting logistics. To help make planning a tad more tolerable, Google is rolling out two new features in its communication and messaging app, Hangouts. (Unfortunately, neither tools help decrease the utterances of such phrases like « How will this scale?  » and « Run it up the flagpole. « )
The first is a video conferencing feature called Hangouts Meet. Meet allows people to hop on meetings via a web link through their laptops or mobile app. This link can be shared in an email or directly through a Google Calendar invite. Colleagues who are traveling without Internet can use a dedicated dial-in phone number.

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