Slack often gets credit for creating the category of solutions that some of us refer to as "workstream collaboration" or "team chat," though I don't recall hearing either of those terms last week at ...
Slack could be the answer to the splintered state of most teams’ communications—my team’s, and probably yours, too. It’s splintered because email is clunky for conversations and gets clogged with ...
Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he's always had a connection to the tech world. As an editor at large at CNET, he wrote about Apple, Microsoft, VR, video games and ...
Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. In a 12-month period that has seen Salesforce commit $27.7 billion to buy Slack, Microsoft Teams skyrocket to 145 ...
Chat is almost as old as the internet itself. But this year, investors and big tech companies alike treated workplace messaging as the next big thing. Slack announced a $250 million investment in ...
This piece was originally published in Slate on April 19, 2015. Last year blogger Beejoli Shah started to notice a curious new artifact populating her social media feeds: screenshots of office chats, ...
Against all odds, Slack has emerged as the darling of enterprise chat. The competitive deck appears nearly stacked against the startup, and it seems that every other month a new product launches from ...
Facebook Messenger just got two new features that might look a little familiar. And no, it's not because Snapchat had them first. Instead, the company is taking two features straight out of Slack's ...
Atlassian is back with another chat app, Stride. Their original competitor in the space, HipChat, already lost to Slack. That makes Stride like The Bride in Kill Bill, seeking vengeance at all costs.
In just five years, Slack has grown to have more than 10 million users and has become a verb in the process. "I'll Slack you" is shorthand for sending a message via the workplace chat platform. On ...