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Is AI the Answer to Digital Workplace Noise Pollution?
A digital workplace can afford employees freedom and flexibility in ways never before possible — but it can also open the floodgates of information unlike anything we've ever seen.
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Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield: Email 'Very Useful,' But ...
BOSTON — Gotcha. Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield admitted email is "very useful." Butterfield spoke yesterday to some of the 21,000 attendees attending the HubSpot Inbound annual marketing conference at the Boston Exhibition and Convention Center.
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Slack Lands $250M in Funding, CXone Updates, More News
Slack has closed a $250 million Series G funding round led by Tokyo-based SoftBank Group Corp., which dipped into its $1 billion Vision Fund for the investment.
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Slack Shared Channels: You Can't Spell Email Killer Without Interoperability
Earlier this week, Slack announced the release of Shared Channels. Shared Channels, according to a blog announcing the release, is a space in Slack where you can work with teams inside and outside the organization.
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Slack Bills New Shared Channels as an Email Replacement
Slack announced the beta release of Shared Channels at Frontiers, its first customer, partner and developer event taking place in San Francisco. Shared Channels, according to the San Francisco-based company, provides organizations with a space where they can work with people both inside and outside the company.
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Slack Analytics Update Provides a Closer Look Into Activity
Last week Slack added new analytics features to its real-time communication app to provide deeper, contextual insight into channel and individual user activity. In the blog post announcing the new capabilities, officials stated the additions are meant to help companies make more informed decision about how they manage Slack.
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Is Amazon About to Buy Slack?
Amazon has reportedly approached enterprise darling Slack about a potential takeover, according to recent reports. Bloomberg financial news service reported the rumor based on "people with knowledge of the situation," but stated an agreement isn’t assured and discussions may not go any further. Both Seattle-based Amazon and San Francisco-based Slack
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What the Jive Acquisition Means for the Community Industry
On May 1, Jive announced private equity firm ESW Capital had acquired it in a deal valued at $462 million. The buy will move Jive from being a publicly-traded company to a member of the Aurea Software portfolio.
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Slack Adds Screen Sharing, HubSpot's State of Inbound, More News
Paid Slack users can now share their screens on video calls with colleagues thanks to a new feature. The San Francisco-based enterprise collaboration provider last week extended its native calling feature with screen sharing. Users can leverage the capability in any Slack channel or direct message.
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Zeta Global Secures $140M to Fuel Growth, More News
Zeta Global is looking to grow, and received an influx of cash this week to do so. Earlier this week, the New York City-based provider of multichannel campaign management announced its largest funding round to date: $115 million in equity capital.
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Investors Bet on Sapho to Revive Enterprise Software
Enterprise applications were designed for power users who revel in their intricacies, not everyday workers who just want to get their jobs done. So it's no wonder the majority of employees avoid using the company provided software applications or log into them as infrequently as possible.
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Slack Improves Workflows With New Message Menus, More News
Slack introduced a new feature this week that will add to its appeal as an enterprise workplace tool. The new message menus bring more intricate and nuanced workflows to third-party apps in Slack, offering access to new functionality through those menus. According to a blog post from the San Francisco-based
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SlackPass Jumpstarts Paid Slack Groups and Subscription Content Sharing
Since bursting onto the scene in 2013, Slack has revolutionized digital workplaces across the world. Just one month after launching, Slack had over 16,000 users. Today, the freemium discussion and collaboration platform boasts over 5 million daily active users. Not Just a Digital Workplace Tool Slack has become the
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Don't Expect Slack to Dominate Enterprise Collaboration — Yet
Slack will be slow to lure customers away from other collaboration vendors until it improves data hosting, search, partner collaboration and other enterprise features, analysts and Slack users told CMSWire. But it's off to a strong start.
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