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Despite EU complaint, Slack says they do not face serious competition from Microsoft

3 weeks

In 2020 Slack, which now belongs to SalesForce, complained to the EU about Microsoft bundling Teams with Microsoft 365, and a year later, in 2021, the competition regulator started a preliminary investigation into the issue. It, t...

The EU opens a preliminary investigation into Office/Teams bundling after Slack complaint

by Surur

4 months

We have been around long enough to remember when Slack welcomes Microsoft Teams with a rather snarky full-page ad in the New York Times, explaining how Slack was made with “love” and that “Slack is here to stay&#...

Salesforce has completed its acquisition of Slack

by Pradeep

6 months

Last year, Salesforce announced its plans to acquire Slack Technologies, Inc, the popular enterprise communications platform for about $27 billion. Today, Salesforce announced that it has completed the acquisition of Slack. Inside...

Slack announces scheduled send, video messages and huddle audio chat

by Pradeep

7 months

Slack today announced three new brand-new features that are not available on Microsoft Teams. Read about the new features below. 1) Huddles: https://d34u8crftukxnk.cloudfront.net/slackpress/prod/sites/6/05_Huddles_2x.mp4 Schedulin...

Slack is down, this may help

by Surur

8 months

Popular enterprise group chat app Slack is having issues. For around 90 minutes now users have bee reporting issues trying to load the app. Users may be unable to load Slack at the moment. We're on the case and will report...

Microsoft Teams is down for some users right now (updated)

by Pradeep

9 months

Microsoft Teams is now down for some users around the world. Microsoft has acknowledged the outage. Microsoft has now informed users that it is investigating the issue where some users are unable to access Microsoft Teams. Microso...

Slack will soon allow organizations to create a private business network for secure communication

by Pradeep

10 months

Slack today announced a couple of new features that will enable organizations to easily connect with people in external organizations. First, Slack Connect Direct Messages feature is now generally available. Slack paid teams can i...

It’s not just you – Slack is down

by Pradeep

1 year

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

1 year

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

1 year

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

1 year

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

1 year

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...