Microsoft’s ‘Slack Killer’ Due This Week

Tech Microsoft’s ‘Slack Killer’ Due This Week Microsoft’s previously announced mobile development toolkit and app-connector services are available in most of the world as of Tuesday. But the real news expected this week is the widely

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Tech Facebook at Work Could Be Reporting for Duty Soon Facebook at Work is about to report for duty. The social networking company’s long-awaited foray into business applications will formally debut in London on October 10, according to tech site

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The 21st Century Corporation Microsoft Won’t Meet Deadline For 1 Billion Windows 10 Devices Whoops. Microsoft is now conceding that Windows 10 is unlikely to meet a goal of running on 1 billion devices by 2018. Flashing back to May, 2015, Terry Myerson, the executive vice president

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Tech Microsoft Buying LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion Wow. Microsoft is buying LinkedIn and its massive business-focused social networking site for $26.2 billion cash. The deal is priced at $196 per share, and Microsoft msft said Jeff Weiner will remain

Tech An Important Feature Is Coming to Slack Later This Year Slack is about to get a whole lot better later this year. The popular workplace chat service is planning to introduce threaded messages later in 2016, founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield told The

Tech Here’s Why Stewart Butterfield Thinks Slack’s Success Is a ‘Historical Accident’Slack, the three-year-old workplace chat tool, has been hailed as one of the hottest tech startups at the moment with thousands of users praising it for changing the way they communicate at work.

Tech When Good Communication Goes Bad For many people who work in distributed organizations—and often from home offices—real-time messaging applications such as Slack, Jive jive , and Yammer, et al., are vital lifelines. But few people

Tech Oil data startup Tachyus fuels up with funding from Founders Fund Oil isn’t the most popular industry in the Bay Area, admits Dakin Sloss, co-founder and CEO of Tachyus, an 18-month-old Silicon Valley startup that builds data tools for the oil industry. But

Fortune Insiders 5 trends that could change how businesses use social media in 2015 Duke University recently published a study on social media that left many managers scratching their heads. Social media spending at companies, the report showed, currently represents 9% of marketing

Tech Zenefits hires Yammer founder David Sacks as COO “David Sacks doesn’t need to do this.” That’s Parker Conrad, the CEO of a startup called Zenefits, and he’s right. Entrepreneur and investor David Sacks has joined Conrad’s startup

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