Slack

It’s not just you – Slack is down

2 months

Slack is down for many users worldwide. It is a major outage; the issues began around 7am and every Slack service has been affected. Even after three hours, the services are not yet restored. So far, Slack has provided the followi...

Salesforce announce Slack acquisition for $27.7 billion

by Surur

3 months

Today Salesforce, the leader in CRM, and Slack Technologies, Inc, the popular enterprise communications platform, have entered into a definitive agreement under which Salesforce will acquire Slack. Under the terms of the agreement...

Report: Salesforce will announce Slack acquisition tomorrow

by Pradeep

3 months

Last week we reported that Salesforce might acquire Slack. Today, CNBC reported that this deal is now confirmed, and Salesforce might officially announce the Slack acquisition tomorrow after the market closes. Salesforce is planni...

Breaking: Salesforce in talks to buy Slack

by Pradeep

3 months

According to WSJ’s latest report, Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack. Slack is currently valued at $17 billion. So, Salesforce may need to pay more than $20 billion for this acquisition. Along with its market leading CRM se...

Slack announces several new features to take on Microsoft Teams

by Pradeep

5 months

At this year’s Slack Frontiers annual conference, Slack announced several new features coming to the service in the coming months. These new feature will enable Slack to better compete with Microsoft Teams. The new Slack feature...

Slack not impressed with Microsoft Teams Together mode, says Teams is “not competitive”

by Surur

8 months

After being slow to virtual backgrounds, Microsoft appeared to leapfrog the competition this week with their new Together mode, which places meeting participants in virtual settings such as auditoriums, which Microsoft says reduce...

Slack acquires Rimeto to improve Slack profiles

by Pradeep

8 months

Slack today announced that it is acquiring Rimeto, which makes modern Enterprise Directory software. Slack is planning to integrate Rimeto’s advanced profile and directory features into Slack directly. Slack also announced that ...

Slack announces Slack Connect, a new feature that is designed to replace email

by Pradeep

9 months

Slack today announced Slack Connect, a new feature that is designed to replace email. Right now, organizations use channel-based tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams for internal communications and rely on email for external commu...

Mio Universal Channels lets you chat with Slack and Cisco Webex users directly from Microsoft Teams

by Surur

9 months

Workplace collaboration apps have become increasingly important, especially with many teams scattered around the world. Sometimes however different teams use different platforms e.g. Microsoft Teams vs Slack, or you want to pull i...

Amazon now offers Slack as an option for its 800,000+ employees around the world

by Pradeep

9 months

Last Thursday, Amazon AWS and Slack announced a major partnership to take on Microsoft Teams. Both the companies revealed several new integrations like Amazon Chime infrastructure with Slack Calls, AWS Key Management Service with ...

Slack turns to Amazon to beef up its services

by Surur

9 months

Facing overwhelming competition from Microsoft Teams, Slack has been forced to turn to cloud behemoth Amazon AWS to improve its services. In a press release, the companies announced a new multi-year agreement to deliver solutions ...

CEO Butterfield says Microsoft has an unhealthy preoccupation with Slack, says Slack threatens Microsoft’...

by Surur

10 months

Slack may be regretting welcoming Microsoft to the enterprise collaboration business all the way back in 2016. Their full-page ad then read: Dear Microsoft, Wow. Big news! Congratulations on today’s announcements. We’re genuin...