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The
company said users will be able to use desktop screens for calls
in both portrait and landscape mode, and the calls will be
end-to-end encrypted. (https://bit.ly/3uW3Y0r)
The move to facilitate calls over large screens would put
WhatsApp on par with video-conferencing bigwigs Zoom and Google
Meet, but it is not clear if it has ambitions to compete with
the two in the enterprise space.
WhatsApp, which recorded 1.4 billion voice and video calls on
last New Year's Eve, has benefited from the COVID-19 pandemic as
people around the world used video-calling apps to stay
connected while sheltering themselves at home.
(Reporting by Tiyashi Datta in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur)
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