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Zoom buys Common Room to push past the video call into AI sales
Zoom made its name on the video call. Now it wants to own everything that happens before the call too. The company is buying Common Room, a Seattle startup whose AI reads the buying signals of potential customers, pushing Zoom deeper into enterprise sales software. Zoom announced the acquisition on Thursday. It did not disclose [] This story continues at The Next Web
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