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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.

At 3:50PM ET, Slack confirmed what we suspected and what others had already figured out — it was DNS. Some of my co-workers have had issues today, while it’s working fine for others (including, ...

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 ...

The company envisions Slackbot as a personalized work agent for getting things done and synthesizing institutional wisdom.

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Slack CTO Parker Harris said he limits distractions when he's doing focused work. "We all need to find a way to concentrate," ...

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 ...

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 ...

The company said it was investigating the source of the issues, which began Wednesday morning Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Shutterstock Slack went down on Wednesday, Feb. 26 ...