Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Thursday, May 7th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Zoom makes its first acquisition. Google Authenticator now makes it easier to switch phones.

Lift earnings gives hope to the whole ride-hailing industry, new Sonos gear, and a deep dive into

Facebook's new Oversight Board.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Zoom is acquiring Keybase, a 25 person startup in order to add end to end encryption to Zoom video calls. This is a fairly big deal because first of all this is

Zoom's first ever acquisition in the company's nine-year history, but also

because you know this is all part of Zoom's 90-day crash course to address its security issues

and get folks back being comfortable using Zoom products quoting

CMBC. Zoom CEO Eric Yuan told CMBC the company needed a solution for users who are demanding the highest level of privacy and certainty that

uninvited participants have no access to their conversations.

When Keybase is implemented, the Zoom user who schedules a meeting will be able to choose

end-to-end encryption.

That setting will prevent anyone from calling in by phone, which is one way people can access meetings and will disable

cloud-based recording of the chat.

Yewan said, it's critical that users know that the encryption key is not on Zoom's

servers so the company has no access to the contents of the call.

In early April, Yuan hired former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos as a consultant

to help the company beef up its efforts after apologizing to users

for falling short of the communities and our own privacy and security expectations

end quote. Within days Stamos was on the phone with Keybase co-founder Max Crone, and the teams started

working toward a deal. Yuan said, after he talked with Crone and dug into Keybase's software,

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