October 2018
October is gone, but it’s not forgotten. It was a very hectic month. I like to attend as many conferences as I can, and I had to decline 3 invitations in October due to travel. I made it across the Atlantic four times, and took an extended weekend trip with the in-laws. I managed to attend MitelNext and Gitex, and then covered Zoomtopia, Twilio Signal, and Workplace Flow. 
Here’s what’s in the October recap:
UC-Centric News
- Zoom Raises its Voice
- Savvy Headsets
- Worktopia
- MitelNext 2018
- Avaya at Gitex
- More
Workstream-Centric News
- Workplace Updates
- 8×8 Team Messaging
- More
Conferencing-Centric News
- Zoom updates
- GlobalMeet
- Berman gone
- Joos arrives
- More
Customer Engagement News
- Twilio
- Twilio
- Twilio
- CCaaS MQ
- More
Provider-Centric News
- Calif and FCC Put the Fight in Neutral
- More
Emerging Technologies
- Houseparty
- Prince
Miscellaneous
- Gmail Compose Actions
- The World Needs Telecommuting
- More
9 Acquisitions
Financial Quipz
- Avaya Invests in Cogito
- Afiniti Raises $130M
- Talkdesk Raises $100M
- More
New Devices
21 Goodreads
UpComing Events
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By Dave Michels
Dave is an independent analyst and founder of TalkingPointz which is focused on enterprise communications. In addition to this (free and paid) content on TalkingPointz, he contributes to industry sites, can be found at major industry events, and provides advisory services to vendors and financial analysts.