If you can’t get together with your friends to have a party in person, you may be thinking of how to have a party online. Free apps like Zoom make video meetings or social chats really easy to set up ...

To prep for a Zoom party, make sure everyone has the service downloaded. To ensure everyone can stay on for the whole party, it's best to sign up for a paid version of Zoom, or sign up for a free ...

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is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Zoom is furthering its ambitions to be your go-to app for virtual meetings and ...

If your options for going out are limited, you may be missing social time with friends or happy hours after work to wind down. That’s one reason that virtual happy hours are becoming so popular: These ...

This year has been downright odd and in addition to pretty much every other occasion in 2020, your holiday parties will not only be holly and jolly but also virtual. As we head into the colder months, ...

It can be a struggle to make a digital party feel special or celebratory. PEOPLE asked celebrity party planners what they recommend for throwing a Zoom celebration that feels special, meaningful, and ...

We're all collectively trying to navigate our bizarre new state of reality right now — one aspect of which is that our social lives have become mostly dependent on Zoom and other video conferencing ...

A get-together with friends via Zoom (or other videoconferencing software). Throughout the COVID crisis in 2020 and 2021, virtual parties over Zoom became popular for general get-togethers as well as ...

Zoom became indispensable during the pandemic, and now the company wants to ensure it stays that way when things return to some sense of normalcy. To that end, it’s adding third-party integrations, ...