Email & Collaboration Industry Fortnightly: August 28, 2019

Xiaomi, OPPO, and Vivo team up to make cross-device file transfers easier (www.xda-developers.com)

“AirDrop is a very popular way to easily transfer files and other data between Apple devices. There is no equivalent in the Android world, although there have been many attempts such as the recently deprecated Android Beam. Other interesting projects include OpenDrop, Google Files and Firefox Send. Now several Chinese companies are teaming up to create a potential new standard. Since Google Services are not usually present on the phones sold there, this could be popular in China and perhaps then worldwide.”

Microsoft Teams wins Enterprise Connect Best in Show award and delivers new experiences for the intelligent workplace (www.microsoft.com)

"This post from earlier this year has interesting stats regarding Microsoft Teams. It looks like many big companies have already adopted it, with over 150 organizations having more than 10,000 active users on Teams."

In case you missed it: New tools for announcements, search, calls and more (slackhq.com)

"Microsoft Teams' nemesis, Slack, is introducing many cool and useful features such as Google Calendar integration, call improvements, etc. Slack has a strong position in the internal chat space and they want to expand to cover more and more collaboration and communication workflows in the enterprise."

Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore (www.bloomberg.com)

"Google was well-known for allowing any kind of discussion in their employee forums, including politics. These new guidelines don’t forbid discussing politics at work but require managers to address conversations that become disruptive."

Sunsetting Hire by Google (www.support.google.com)

“I remember seeing ads for Google Hire and salespeople have been reaching out to me till recently. Now Google has decided to retire the product a year from now. But being a paid product, it will honor existing SLAs and contracts.”