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Microsoft Teams-Slack rivalry heats up as CEOs brag about their collaboration tools

Microsoft Teams is the top dog in the competitive collaboration tool market — at least, Satya Nadella certainly thinks so.… Read More

Slack hits 12M daily users — here’s how that compares to Microsoft Teams and other rivals

Slack now has 12 million daily active users, the latest indication of the fierce competition for dominance in the realm… Read More

Facebook’s Workplace productivity tool hits 3M paid users, escalating competition with Slack and Microsoft Teams

Workplace by Facebook, the social giant’s productivity tool now has 3 million paid users, an important milestone as the company… Read More

Slack gets a Dark Mode on desktop

Slack is adding Dark Mode to its desktop apps, doubling down on the feature that has become a major trend… Read More

Slack doubles down on competition with Microsoft, touting enterprise customer growth among Office 365 users

Slack used its first-ever earnings report to highlight growth among customers that are deep in the Microsoft ecosystem, another sign… Read More

Here’s how many people use Microsoft Teams every day, and how it compares to rival Slack

Microsoft revealed for the first time today how many people regularly use its collaboration app Teams, allowing for a clear… Read More

Meet Matt Slack: Michigan techie who is @slack on Twitter got an invite to Slack’s public debut

Matt Slack has been on Twitter for 13 years with the handle @slack. Slack, the chat-based collaboration app, has been… Read More

Podcast

Slack vs. Microsoft: Inside the competition to reshape how work gets done

If you tuned into the news this week, you probably heard one name over and over again. Slack, the workplace… Read More

No Slack for you! Microsoft puts rival app on internal list of ‘prohibited and discouraged’ software

As Slack makes its stock market debut, there’s a major company that won’t be allowing its employees to use the… Read More

Slack makes its public debut at $38.50/share as valuation soars above $20B

Slack is off to a good start as a public company Thursday as shares of the chat-based collaboration app are… Read More

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Podcast

Interview: Slack CTO explains the company’s tech strategy in its quest to rid the world of email

Workplace chat and collaboration technology company Slack is set to become a public company on Thursday, with implications for a… Read More

GeekWire Cloud Summit is almost here: Learn from tech leaders at Slack, Microsoft, AWS and more

We’re just one week away from the third annual GeekWire Cloud Summit, which will feature some of the leading forces… Read More

Slack calls out Microsoft as its ‘primary competitor’ in IPO filing in nod to rival’s collaboration tools

Now we know why Slack made such a ruckus when Microsoft entered its territory two years ago with the introduction… Read More

Slack renegotiated its deal with Amazon Web Services in 2018, will spend at least $212M more through 2023

Slack revealed Friday that it joined the parade of companies that renegotiated long-term deals with Amazon Web Services over the… Read More

Hear speakers from Slack, Icertis, Solo.io, and SendGrid at the 2019 GeekWire Cloud Summit

It might be spring break in Seattle, but plans for the 2019 GeekWire Cloud Summit, presented by F5, are in… Read More

Slack unveils new integrations with Microsoft Office 365 apps, bringing key rival into its ecosystem

Slack is battling Microsoft in the competitive market for workplace collaboration apps, but that isn’t stopping the company from integrating… Read More

Microsoft Teams used by 500K organizations 2 years after launch, unveils new meeting and security features

Microsoft Teams is now used by more than 500,000 organizations, two years after the tool launched and kicked off a… Read More

Surveys in Slack: Madrona leads $7M round in Polly, a Seattle startup that builds polling software

With millions of employees at thousands of companies now getting work done with collaboration software such as Slack and Microsoft… Read More

Slack adds app building tools as productivity arms race with Microsoft Teams continues

Slack wants to make it easier to build apps and integrations on its platform, hoping to attract third-party developers as… Read More

Slack takes a step closer to an IPO with confidential filing of its registration statement

The first wave of 2019 initial public offerings appears back on track after the government shutdown, with Slack announcing Monday… Read More

Microsoft Teams usage passes Slack in new survey; IT pros expect its presence to double by 2020

Microsoft Teams is now being used by more organizations than its rival Slack, according to a new survey that shows… Read More

Microsoft’s Slack competitor Teams now used by 329k organizations, as tech giant adds new tools

Microsoft wants to spread the use of its Slack rival Teams, so it is introducing tools for specialized groups like… Read More

SaaS at scale: Here’s how five cloud tech experts are building enterprise software empires

Until very recently, very few people actually liked the enterprise software they were forced to use at work, from the… Read More

Slack raises massive $427M round, valuation skyrockets to $7.1B as it battles Microsoft Teams

Slack has raised a whopping $427 million in a new funding round amid a strong challenge from Microsoft Teams in… Read More

Don’t call it a chat app! How Slack is sharpening its focus to compete against Microsoft and others

Slack is facing plenty of competition from some of the biggest tech companies on earth. In fact, Microsoft just recognized… Read More

Microsoft adds Slack to official list of Office rivals as workplace collaboration wars escalate

Microsoft considers Slack enough of a threat to its Office business to officially list the popular workplace communication and collaboration… Read More

Slack acquires tech behind Atlassian’s Stride and Hipchat tools, companies will work together on migrating customers

Not even a year after challenging Slack with the debut of Atlassian Stride, Slack has agreed to acquire the intellectual… Read More

TLDR: Microsoft vs. Slack, high-tech Nike store, Elon Musk wants to help Flint

Today’s featured stories Microsoft unveils free version of Teams productivity tool, upping the ante against rival Slack ‘Not like Amazon… Read More

Slack addresses one of its major weaknesses with search improvements

Workplace collaboration app Slack is great for chatting with co-workers and discussing project plans in the moment, but if you… Read More

Tech leaders from Slack, Tableau and Smartsheet to share secrets of SaaS at Cloud Tech Summit

If you’re a plucky entrepreneur with a fresh idea on enterprise software in 2018, you’re going to deliver that idea… Read More