HOW VIDEO CONFERENCING APPS HAVE POSITIVELY IMPACTED GLOBAL BUSINESS
HOW ZOOM AND GOOGLE MEET TECHNOLOGY HAS BECOME A TOOL FOR ADVANCEMENT OF GLOBAL BUSINESS By Mwangi Technology is now a crucial part of our lives, creating a departure when people, especially in Africa, were skeptical about digital way of life. Even the leap to millennium transition from 1999 to 2000 attracted rumors of how a particular bug would destroy functioning by computers, including those controlling nuclear warheads in the USA. After all the rumors and worries, nothing happened. It even led to an increase in the use of computers, emails, and mobile phones that, after time, brought the addictive social media. Video conferencing technology like Skype came later, and now we have new apps to communicate over the internet. Zoom and Google Meet are now the in-thing in terms of video conferencing solutions. Their development coincided with the onset of Covid-19, when everyone was in dire need to maintain social distance. The panic led many organizations to require most of t