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Enterprise chat app Slack integrates ChatGPT to talk to employees

Salesforce-owned enterprise chat application Slack has announced the new AI-powered app -- ChatGPT app for Slack to deliver instant conversation summaries, research tools, and writing assistance

Updated On: 08 Mar 2023 | 2:42 PM IST

Twitter shuts off its internal Slack, employees say didn't pay bills

Twitter has apparently shut off its internal communication system Slack and employees posted on anonymous workplace chat app Blind that the company had stopped paying its Slack bills

Updated On: 25 Feb 2023 | 9:38 AM IST

Slack CEO, co-founder Stewart Butterfield to quit Salesforce in Jan 2023

CEO and co-founder of enterprise messaging platform Slack, Stewart Butterfield announced that he is leaving Salesforce in January 2023

Updated On: 06 Dec 2022 | 11:27 AM IST

Slack to store Indian customers' data locally to meet regulations

A very high proportion of Indian knowledge workers (81 per cent) also said they want more meaning from their job, or to feel like they're having an impact

Updated On: 09 Nov 2022 | 4:33 PM IST

Slack launches in India, scouts for firms designing digital workplaces

A survey by Slack of over 2,000 Indian knowledge workers found 4 in 5 respondents desired flexibility, and would switch jobs if their employer didn't provide it

Updated On: 02 Jun 2022 | 1:10 AM IST

Workplace platform Slack enters India to help firms establish 'digital HQs'

Slack, which has users in over 150 countries globally, already has a significant following in India which is one of its top 10 markets for paid teams globally.

Updated On: 01 Jun 2022 | 4:22 PM IST

Meta to launch several Slack-like functionalities on Messenger

Meta is adding a new "@everyone" functionality that will notify all participants in a chat about a new message.

Updated On: 30 Mar 2022 | 12:19 PM IST

Workplace messaging app Slack hit with outage on first Monday of 2021

The company said it was investigating the issue and would follow up

Updated On: 05 Jan 2021 | 12:40 AM IST

Salesforce agrees to buy workplace app Slack in $27.7 billion deal

Salesforce agreed to buy workplace app Slack in a $27.7 billion deal, biggest by the cloud-computing pioneer as it bets on an extended run for remote working and sharpens its rivalry with Microsoft

Updated On: 03 Dec 2020 | 1:31 AM IST

Salesforce in talks to acquire workplace messaging app Slack, says report

Salesforce sees the potential acquisition as a logical extension of its enterprise offerings, the sources said

Updated On: 26 Nov 2020 | 2:06 AM IST

SoftBank returns to black as Vision Fund recovers from Covid-19 pandemic

Recovery largely due to rising valuations of bets like Uber and Slack

Updated On: 12 Aug 2020 | 1:06 AM IST

Microsoft Q4 profit at $11.2 bn, beats Wall Street estimates amid Covid-19

The company said its commercial cloud business surpassed $50 billion in annual revenue for the first time

Updated On: 23 Jul 2020 | 8:22 AM IST

Slack scraps billings outlook; 50% jump in sales fails to impress investors

Shares of the company, which had surged nearly 80% this year, dropped 16% in extended trading after Slack withdrew its forecast for billings citing uncertainty driven by the Covid-19 pandemic

Updated On: 05 Jun 2020 | 11:03 AM IST

Slack threatens Microsoft's entire Office 365 empire: CEO Butterfield

In a different universe where Slack is incredibly successful over the next two years and 98% of knowledge workers use Slack, says CEO Stewart Butterfield

Updated On: 27 May 2020 | 3:37 PM IST

Slack integrates Microsoft Teams app for video call, Zoom for VoIP calls

Once you've set up the Teams app in Slack, you'll be able to start a call by simply using the teams-call command

Updated On: 02 Apr 2020 | 11:32 AM IST

Industrial revolution to slack: Here's a brief history of remote working

Google Hangouts, makes collaboration easy; can hold video conferences and live-stream meetings

Updated On: 18 Mar 2020 | 10:26 PM IST

Slack Technologies posts $141 mn annual loss as it files to go public

Only 88,000 of those were paying subscribers, but that was up almost 50 percent from a year earlier and more than double the 37,000 it had in 2017

Updated On: 28 Apr 2019 | 2:42 PM IST

Slack raises $250 mn from Softbank, boosts valuation to $5.1 bn

The fund provides resources which will help Slack run as a cash-generating co and the raise will reduce its dependence on outside funding

Updated On: 18 Sep 2017 | 3:33 PM IST