Shares of Slack Technologies Inc, the fast-growing workplace messaging and communication platform, soared nearly 50 per cent in their public trading debut on Thursday, valuing the company at more than US$23 billion.
Messaging service ​Slack now has more than 10 million daily active users, its parent company said on Tuesday.
Iran has ordered messaging apps to transfer data and activity records of Iranian users to local servers within one year, a move that will give the country a greater ability to monitor and censor the online activity of its people.
Cisco Systems is reinventing its collaboration tools from the bottom up, turning the lowly Spark text-messaging app into a cloud-based platform that includes videoconferencing and the core features of an enterprise phone system.
A successful eHealth trial of secure message delivery means Australian healthcare professionals will soon be able to share clinical information through online messaging.