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Slack launches Actions, which could make it easier for users to share Slack data with third-party apps

Slack’s greatest potential as an enterprise collaboration company will come if it can convince more companies to use its platform… Read More

Slack hits 8 million daily users, with 3 million paid subscribers

Slack is carving out a nice piece of the business software market for itself thanks to its workplace chat and… Read More

Microsoft Teams ratchets up Slack challenge, claims 200k organizations as customers one year after launch

Microsoft Teams is now being used by 200,000 organizations in 181 markets around the world, up four-fold since the tech… Read More

Microsoft releases biggest update yet for Teams, adding deeper app integration to productivity tool

Microsoft is out with a series of new features for its chat and productivity program Teams, all with a common… Read More

Software as a Service in 2018: Artificial intelligence and new apps are reshaping a key cloud sector

First, the bad news when it comes to Software as a Service in 2018: The market is maturing. Growth is… Read More

Slack’s Julia Grace on the lessons learned from downtime, and the responsibility to pay it forward

It’s kind of amazing how reliable modern internet services have become over the last decade, which is why we freak… Read More

Now that’s scary: Slack goes down on Halloween

A major outage took out Slack’s services for what appeared to be a large portion of its userbase Tuesday afternoon.… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Twine uses Slack and Alexa to make video conferencing ‘magical’

Boulder entrepreneurs Anthony Claudia and Andrew Hahn made a name for themselves by developing an app that allows professionals to… Read More

Walmart joins ‘Workplace by Facebook,’ boosting social giant’s collaboration tools

Facebook just notched a big win for its collaboration tool Workplace by Facebook, landing the nation’s largest employer, Walmart. Typically, these… Read More

Slack reaches 9M weekly users, releases new features on the heels of Microsoft Teams update

Slack has had a clear message for Microsoft ever since the Redmond tech giant unveiled Teams back in November: Game… Read More

Microsoft says 125k organizations now use Teams, as collaboration tool adds new Guest Access feature

As Microsoft continues to navigate the competitive landscape of collaboration tools, its Teams program is now being used by 125,000… Read More

Atlassian hopes to dent Slack’s momentum with Stride, a new group collaboration tool

One nice thing about the rise of design thinking within enterprise software has been the emergence of workplace tools that… Read More

Tune launches ‘tunebot,’ a Slack-powered chatbot that answers queries on marketing data

Interpreting data is a hard job, especially when you need answers on the fly. Tune, the Seattle-based marketing technology company,… Read More

Why Amazon (and others) might want to acquire Slack

There’s not much of a dilemma as to why Amazon might consider buying Slack for $9 billion; just about any… Read More

Microsoft says hello to Trello with new Teams tie-in as it battles Slack and others in packed chat market

The popular project management program Trello is now integrated into Microsoft Teams, the Redmond tech giant’s new enterprise messaging platform within… Read More

Slack adds new menu feature as it takes on tech titans in competitive collaboration market

Slack has added a new feature that lets people insert dropdown menus in the middle of conversations. These menus are designed… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Inside the Slack Wars, as Microsoft and Google get serious about enterprise chat

If you’re not familiar with Slack, odds are you don’t work at a startup. This messaging platform has been taking… Read More

Hands on with Microsoft Teams: All-in-one collaboration tool takes cues from relatives and rivals

Even though Microsoft just released its Teams enterprise collaboration tool today, there’s a familiar look and feel to a lot of the features,… Read More

Inside look: How Slack, Google Hangouts, and Microsoft Teams stack up in enterprise messaging

[Editor’s Note: Samir Diwan is the CEO of Seattle startup Polly, which makes a bot that runs polls and surveys in Slack,… Read More

Microsoft Teams launches globally, taking on Slack, Amazon, Google, others in high-stakes chat battle

REDMOND, Wash. — After four months in preview, Microsoft is officially launching its Teams “chat-based workspace” for Office 365 in… Read More

Microsoft set to take on Slack with global release of workplace chat app ‘Teams’ next week

Microsoft will release its answer to Slack, Microsoft Teams, on a global basis next week. The company is holding an… Read More

Tech Moves: Zillow adds Slack VP to board as Trulia co-founder departs; Utrip names COO; etc.

Seattle online real estate powerhouse Zillow Group announced today that Slack executive April Underwood has joined the company’s board of directors.… Read More

Slack launches ‘Enterprise Grid’ for larger businesses as Microsoft touts Teams traction

Popular messaging service Slack has entered the big leagues. The company launched a service catering to large corporations on Tuesday.… Read More

Study: Microsoft Teams set to pass Slack, Google Hangouts as second most-used business chat app in next 2 years

Microsoft Teams isn’t even generally available to the public yet, but one report prognosticates that the new chat app will… Read More

Did Amazon secretly acquire online meeting startup Biba? Newly uncovered filings point to deal

Merger documents uncovered by GeekWire suggest that Amazon last year stealthily acquired Biba, a San Francisco-based company that makes chat, video and… Read More

Podcast

Slack’s ‘friendly advice’ for Microsoft: Brilliant PR strategy or patronizing ploy?

Slack made headlines yesterday with its full-page newspaper advertisement preempting Microsoft’s announcement of its new Slack competitor, Teams. If the… Read More

Yammer on? Microsoft says new ‘Teams’ tool doesn’t supplant its past $1.2B acquisition

It was only four years ago that Microsoft dropped a cool $1.2 billion on Yammer, which bills itself as a social network… Read More

Full text: Slack offers ‘friendly advice’ to Microsoft in full-page New York Times ad

FOLLOW-UP: Microsoft unveils ‘Teams’ chat-based workspace for Office 365, challenging Slack Microsoft is expected to unveil its rival to the wildly… Read More

Will Microsoft challenge Slack? What to expect from the company’s Office event this week

Coming off a series of splashy announcements focused on creativity last week, Microsoft is holding another big event Wednesday, where the company… Read More

Can Facebook compete in enterprise communication? ‘Facebook at Work’ officially launching today

On Monday, Facebook is expected to officially launch the enterprise tool it has been testing for over a year. Facebook at Work… Read More