Zoom planning its own email service, calendar app: Report

New Delhi: After cementing its position in the video calling market amid the pandemic, Zoom is now planning to develop an email service and release it next year, along with working on a calendar application, to take on giants like Google and Microsoft, the media reported.
According to a report in The Information citing people with direct knowledge of the matter, Zoom Video Communications has begun developing a web email service and “might offer a very early version of the product to some customers next year”.
“The company also is looking into building a calendar application”.
Zoom did not comment on the report.
The company has had a blockbuster year, with its stock price rising more than 500 per cent owing to the unprecedented surge in remote work and learning.
Zoom’s major competitors are videoconferencing platforms bundled as part of comprehensive enterprise app suites.