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
Slack is carving out a nice piece of the business software market for itself thanks to its workplace chat and collaboration app, which now has 8 million daily users, the… Read More
Microsoft Teams is now being used by 200,000 organizations in 181 markets around the world, up four-fold since the tech giant’s workplace chat and collaboration technology launched one year ago… Read More
Microsoft is out with a series of new features for its chat and productivity program Teams, all with a common goal of making it easier to get more done without… Read More
First, the bad news when it comes to Software as a Service in 2018: The market is maturing. Growth is expected to cool a bit. And artificial intelligence, according to… Read More
It’s kind of amazing how reliable modern internet services have become over the last decade, which is why we freak out when they go down. But for Slack’s Julia Grace,… Read More
A major outage took out Slack’s services for what appeared to be a large portion of its userbase Tuesday afternoon. It’s not immediately clear what caused the outage: Slack acknowledged… Read More
Boulder entrepreneurs Anthony Claudia and Andrew Hahn made a name for themselves by developing an app that allows professionals to join conference calls with one tap. When a prominent executive… Read More
Facebook just notched a big win for its collaboration tool Workplace by Facebook, landing the nation’s largest employer, Walmart. Typically, these types of tolls are associated with office workers. But Walmart is… Read More
Slack has had a clear message for Microsoft ever since the Redmond tech giant unveiled Teams back in November: Game on. The day before Microsoft rolled out its workplace chat… Read More
As Microsoft continues to navigate the competitive landscape of collaboration tools, its Teams program is now being used by 125,000 organizations, up from 50,000 at its official launch in March.… Read More
One nice thing about the rise of design thinking within enterprise software has been the emergence of workplace tools that people actually like to use. The meteoric rise of Slack… Read More
Interpreting data is a hard job, especially when you need answers on the fly. Tune, the Seattle-based marketing technology company, is hoping to make quick data queries easier for marketers… Read More
There’s not much of a dilemma as to why Amazon might consider buying Slack for $9 billion; just about any enterprise tech company with money to spend would interested in… Read More
The popular project management program Trello is now integrated into Microsoft Teams, the Redmond tech giant’s new enterprise messaging platform within Office 365. Trello, which boasts more than 19 million registered… Read More
Slack has added a new feature that lets people insert dropdown menus in the middle of conversations. These menus are designed to enable users do more of their work within Slack and… Read More
If you’re not familiar with Slack, odds are you don’t work at a startup. This messaging platform has been taking workplaces by storm over the past few years. But Slack is… Read More
Even though Microsoft just released its Teams enterprise collaboration tool today, there’s a familiar look and feel to a lot of the features, and that’s by design. GeekWire got a demonstration of the… Read More
[Editor’s Note: Samir Diwan is the CEO of Seattle startup Polly, which makes a bot that runs polls and surveys in Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Google Hangouts Chat. A version of this post… Read More
REDMOND, Wash. — After four months in preview, Microsoft is officially launching its Teams “chat-based workspace” for Office 365 in 181 markets around the world today, challenging Slack and tech… Read More
Microsoft will release its answer to Slack, Microsoft Teams, on a global basis next week. The company is holding an “online event” for the release of Teams, Microsoft’s new workplace… Read More
Seattle online real estate powerhouse Zillow Group announced today that Slack executive April Underwood has joined the company’s board of directors. In addition, former Trulia CEO Pete Flint said that he’d not… Read More
Popular messaging service Slack has entered the big leagues. The company launched a service catering to large corporations on Tuesday. With Enterprise Grid, Slack took a new approach by allowing companies… Read More
Microsoft Teams isn’t even generally available to the public yet, but one report prognosticates that the new chat app will soon be used by more businesses than both Google Hangouts and… Read More
Merger documents uncovered by GeekWire suggest that Amazon last year stealthily acquired Biba, a San Francisco-based company that makes chat, video and audio conferencing tools for businesses. Documents filed with the Delaware… Read More
Slack made headlines yesterday with its full-page newspaper advertisement preempting Microsoft’s announcement of its new Slack competitor, Teams. If the goal was to steal attention away from its larger competitor,… Read More
It was only four years ago that Microsoft dropped a cool $1.2 billion on Yammer, which bills itself as a social network for work. Today Microsoft unveiled its long-awaited Slack competitor, Microsoft… Read More
FOLLOW-UP: Microsoft unveils ‘Teams’ chat-based workspace for Office 365, challenging Slack Microsoft is expected to unveil its rival to the wildly popular workplace collaboration tool Slack this morning. And Slack is already… Read More
Coming off a series of splashy announcements focused on creativity last week, Microsoft is holding another big event Wednesday, where the company will likely get back to its bread and butter with… Read More
On Monday, Facebook is expected to officially launch the enterprise tool it has been testing for over a year. Facebook at Work will be available for a fee, not yet publicly announced, for… Read More