Slack now has 12 million daily active users, the latest indication of the fierce competition for dominance in the realm of chat and productivity tools. That figure is up 37… Read More
Workplace by Facebook, the social giant’s productivity tool now has 3 million paid users, an important milestone as the company competes with Slack and Microsoft Teams in an increasingly crowded… Read More
Slack is adding Dark Mode to its desktop apps, doubling down on the feature that has become a major trend across the software world. Slack already offered Dark Mode on… Read More
Slack used its first-ever earnings report to highlight growth among customers that are deep in the Microsoft ecosystem, another sign of the fierce competition between the two companies. CEO Stewart… Read More
Microsoft revealed for the first time today how many people regularly use its collaboration app Teams, allowing for a clear comparison to where it stands against its chief rival Slack.… Read More
Matt Slack has been on Twitter for 13 years with the handle @slack. Slack, the chat-based collaboration app, has been on Twitter for six years with the handle @SlackHQ. Last… Read More
If you tuned into the news this week, you probably heard one name over and over again. Slack, the workplace communication and collaboration technology company, went public on the New… Read More
As Slack makes its stock market debut, there’s a major company that won’t be allowing its employees to use the business collaboration and chat app as part of their daily… Read More
Slack is off to a good start as a public company Thursday as shares of the chat-based collaboration app are trading 50 percent above an early bar set by the… Read More
Workplace chat and collaboration technology company Slack is set to become a public company on Thursday, with implications for a wide variety of companies in the Seattle region and beyond.… Read More
We’re just one week away from the third annual GeekWire Cloud Summit, which will feature some of the leading forces behind this incredible once-in-a-generation shift in how businesses use and… Read More
Now we know why Slack made such a ruckus when Microsoft entered its territory two years ago with the introduction of Teams, even going as far as placing a full-page… Read More
Slack revealed Friday that it joined the parade of companies that renegotiated long-term deals with Amazon Web Services over the last few years as they grew from scrappy startups into… Read More
It might be spring break in Seattle, but plans for the 2019 GeekWire Cloud Summit, presented by F5, are in full swing. We are excited to announce four new speakers… Read More
Slack is battling Microsoft in the competitive market for workplace collaboration apps, but that isn’t stopping the company from integrating some of the most popular services from its rival into… Read More
Microsoft Teams is now used by more than 500,000 organizations, two years after the tool launched and kicked off a collaboration software arms race with rival Slack. Microsoft has steadily… Read More
With millions of employees at thousands of companies now getting work done with collaboration software such as Slack and Microsoft Teams, it’s created opportunities for startups to build tools that… Read More
Slack wants to make it easier to build apps and integrations on its platform, hoping to attract third-party developers as it battles Microsoft and others in the competitive market for… Read More
The first wave of 2019 initial public offerings appears back on track after the government shutdown, with Slack announcing Monday that it has submitted a draft registration statement to the… Read More
Microsoft Teams is now being used by more organizations than its rival Slack, according to a new survey that shows how far the Redmond tech giant’s collaboration app has come… Read More
Microsoft wants to spread the use of its Slack rival Teams, so it is introducing tools for specialized groups like retail and healthcare workers. As Microsoft began its annual IT… Read More
Until very recently, very few people actually liked the enterprise software they were forced to use at work, from the technology managers grumbling about extortionist vendors to the end users… Read More
Slack has raised a whopping $427 million in a new funding round amid a strong challenge from Microsoft Teams in the competitive workplace productivity market. Slack said the round, led… Read More
Slack is facing plenty of competition from some of the biggest tech companies on earth. In fact, Microsoft just recognized Slack as a competitor in its annual regulatory filing. But… Read More
Microsoft considers Slack enough of a threat to its Office business to officially list the popular workplace communication and collaboration tool as a competitor for the first time in its… Read More
Not even a year after challenging Slack with the debut of Atlassian Stride, Slack has agreed to acquire the intellectual property behind Stride as well as the venerable Hipchat collaboration… Read More
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Workplace collaboration app Slack is great for chatting with co-workers and discussing project plans in the moment, but if you want to find a discussion that happened a month ago,… Read More
If you’re a plucky entrepreneur with a fresh idea on enterprise software in 2018, you’re going to deliver that idea as a service, running either on the cloud or on… Read More
Slack’s greatest potential as an enterprise collaboration company will come if it can convince more companies to use its platform for more than messaging and GIFs. It plans to take… Read More