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Zoom, Tiktok Dominate Global App Downloads in Spite of Security Concerns By Techtonic group The latest Store Intelligence report released last week by Sensor Tower suggests that video-conferencing software, Zoom, was the most-downloaded non-gaming app on both the Play Store and the App Store in April with close to 131 million installs. India emerged as the country with the most downloads during last month, in spite of  official warnings from the Indian government  about  its myriad security vulnerabilities . While India accounted for 18.2 percent of all Zoom installs globally, the US came in at number two with 14.3 percent. TikTok, which is itself  not a stranger to controversies  in India and beyond, was the second-most-installed non-gaming app last month with more than 107 million downloads worldwide. India remained one of the leading markets for the app, accounting for 22 percent of all downloads, followed by the US at 9.4 percent. Facebook, Whats...

Zoom Acquires Keybase To Build an End-To-End Encrypted Video Calling Solution By Techtonic group Zoom has become the go-to video conferencing solution for many during the COVID-19 lockdown around the globe. But, as the installs increased, Zoom was discovered to have a slew of security loopholes. The company has already put into action a 90-day plan to address the security and privacy concerns of its users. The latest move under this plan is the  acquisition  of security startup Keybase, which excels in encryption techniques. Keybase is the company's  first-ever acquisition  in its long nine-year journey. Zoom is welcoming a 25-person start-up to its team as part of the deal, whose terms are kept under wraps at the moment. Keybase will now act as a subsidiary to Zoom and its CEO and co-founder Max Krohn will lead the security engineering team. Krohn will report directly to Zoom CEO Eric Yuan. Keybase, for those unaware, is well-known for building encrypted...