Casey Newton is a contributing editor who has been writing about tech for over 10 years. He founded Platformer, a newsletter about Big Tech and democracy. Slack has become a big enough deal that it ...

Slack is the fastest growing workplace software ever. The company's CEO Stewart Butterfield co-founded the company in August of 2013, as a cloud-based team collaboration tool. As fast as the ...

Software acquirers have been quiet this year because the market rally in the cloud sector has made deals too pricey. Should Salesforce buy Slack it would be by far the largest software acquisition in ...

Reporting from San Francisco — Slack Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Stewart Butterfield has a theory about why Albert Einstein achieved mainstream popularity while a fellow genius, Austrian ...

This enterprise software tool is not as dull as you might expect. In fact, Slack is skyrocketing in popularity by bringing hip design and novel functionality to an overlooked issue. Nick Statt was a ...

Two Women Sitting in Front of Computer Monitor. — Photo: by Pexels Two Women Sitting in Front of Computer Monitor. — Photo: by Pexels Slack has suffered a cybersecurity incident during the holidays ...

It's official: Investors love Slack. The workplace chat company went public Thursday through an unusual direct listing, where it simply made its shares available on the New York Stock Exchange, ...

Each year, Salesforce updates its V2MOM, a planning document laying out vision, values, methods, obstacles and measures. CEO Marc Benioff has said it's "been used to guide every decision at Salesforce ...

With an eye for bigger business customers, Slack is finally releasing a feature that power users have requested for years. Slack unveiled "Threads" on Wednesday, a tool that allows users of its ...

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Slack Technologies makes its debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday through a direct listing of its shares. The company named Microsoft as its ‘primary competitor’ in its regulatory filings.