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Back in October 2020, Slack, which has made virtual chats with your coworkers so sticky that Salesforce has bid $27.7 billion to acquire it, announced a bold move. A new feature would soon let anyone ...

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This week Salesforce.com announced its biggest acquisition ever: the $27.7 purchase of Slack, which operates a fast-growing collaboration platform. This is the 8th largest M&A deal in tech history.

Slack markets itself as a tool to increase productivity and portrays other forms of communication, particularly email, as outmoded. Even employees who sit feet away from one another in open areas ...

Workplace chat apps have existed for years, but few have “disrupted” office culture more than Slack. It’s converted back-and-forth threads into chirpy instant messages. It’s replaced water cooler ...

No, Friday didn’t come early and you didn’t get fired. Slack and a bunch of other online services are just going in and out for everyone. “Our teams are aware and are investigating the issue,” a Slack ...

Nick Statt is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. No, it’s wasn’t just you. Slack indeed went down due to an outage of ...