Microsoft Teams surpasses 20 million daily active users; rival Slack shares slip
Microsoft Teams also competes with Workplace by Facebook Inc and Cisco Systems Inc's Webex Teams.
Microsoft Teams also competes with Workplace by Facebook Inc and Cisco Systems Inc's Webex Teams.
Slack has added new integrations with Salesforce as part of its ongoing push to bolster connections with other “best of breed” cloud apps.
Slack Technologies forecast a bigger-than-expected loss for the third quarter on Wednesday, as the workplace messaging and communication platform invests heavily to attract paid customers and organisations in the face of competition from companies like Microsoft.
Slack is getting an overhaul designed to cut memory utilisation in half, speed up launch times and make connecting with colleagues faster.
With Slack now officially listed on the NYSE, the collaboration software vendor finds itself at a crossroads: after five years of rapid growth.
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.
Most organisations have at least two team chat apps, a situation that could lead to communication silos and problems for IT.
The cloud file storage vendor continues to reinvent itself as it looks to compete with collaboration and productivity rivals like Google, Microsoft and Slack.
Looking to bolster its ability to play well with rival software, Slack unveiled new integrations that make it easier for users to work with Microsoft's office suite.
A group of hackers is using a previously undocumented backdoor program designed to interact with attackers over Slack.
Messaging service Slack now has more than 10 million daily active users, its parent company said on Tuesday.
Two years after its launch, Microsoft Teams is outpacing team chat rival Slack – largely thanks to Teams’ free availability as part of Office 365 subscriptions.
Slack has announced the rollout of Enterprise Key Management to tighten up security and compliance for its enterprise customers.
Slack has acquired the intellectual property for Atlassian’s Stride and Hipchat Cloud, which will be discontinued, as part of a partnership between the companies announced today.
As the company’s first developer conference, Spec, kicked off in San Francisco, Slack stressed efforts to integrate its software with third-party apps.