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Howdy Raises $1.5 Million From Top VCs To Develop Apps For Slack
Despite a checkered history with online platforms, developers are always looking for the next big distribution model and a small but growing number is betting Slack, the popular group-messaging platform, is the way to go. One such startup, Austin-based Howdy, may be the first to nab venture funding based largely on that vision. Specifically, the company, which has developed a customizable chat… Read More
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Turing Email Makes Checking Your Inbox As Fun As Using Slack
The team at Turing Email is setting out to fix the little things that make email so tedious. Although many solutions to replace email for internal communications are growing in popularity today, Turing Email takes a step back to the basics and focuses on the little inconveniences that make email such a groan-inducing part of the workday. Stewart Macgregor-Dennis, the company’s founder… Read More
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Slack’s Revamped Posts Feature Is An Alternative To The Company-Wide Email Blast
Slack, the $2.8 billion valued company behind the messaging app that is changing how many businesses communicate internally, just launched an update that might once again spare your inbox. The messaging service, which is used by over 1 million people each day, has proven to be a popular way to simplify ad hoc and daily communication between teams, but now it has revamped its… Read More
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Trello Launches Revamped Business Offering With Third-Party Integrations
Back in 2013, project management service Trello launched its ‘Business Class’ service as a basic paid offering for teams that needed extra features like Google Apps integration and more granular administrative controls. Today, the company is launching a revamped version of its business offering that introduces new features like third-party integrations with tools like Slack, GitHub… Read More
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Slack Leans On Companies Like Box And Nuzzel To Use “Add To Slack” Buttons For Contextual Integration
Slack’s true power is being a platform. A platform that other tools can plug into and play nice with. The company says there are 80+ of these types of integrations and thousands of developers hacking away at adding more. Right now, you have to rely on you or someone on your team finding the integrations that you want on the integrations page and then adding it to your instance of Slack.… Read More
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Slack Decides Not To Kill Email For A Little While Longer, Integrates It Instead
Slack! The email killer! It’s going to kill email! Welp, not today. The team clearly listens to its users, as the company announced a new integration (for Standard and Plus plan customers) that’ll make them extremely happy. Email will probably never completely die; it’s how organizations communicate with the outside world. Now you can bring email into your Slack channels:… Read More
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Slack Integrates With Google Calendar To Add Events To Channels
Slack, the popular office communication tool, will now integrate with Google Calendar, letting events automatically post reminders inside slack channels.
After linking a Google account to Slack, you can choose any calendar and instruct it to post to certain Slack channels. For example, you could have events from your company’s development deadline calendar post reminders to the #dev… Read More
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As Slack Hits 1M Daily Users And 900K Integration Installs, It Hires April Underwood As Head Of Platform
Workplace collaboration platform Slack has been a runaway success since opening for business just over a year ago: the company co-founded and led by Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield now has 1.1 million daily active users, with 300,000 of them paying for premium tiers of the service bringing in annual recurring revenue of $25 million. Now, Slack is stepping up its game and getting more… Read More
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Slack Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg For Enterprise Tech
Slack’s valuation soared to $2.8 billion in less than two years, and has doubled in the past six months alone — all without any big marketing campaigns. The startup’s adoption curve and rave reviews are something many founders and investors dream about, but few actually achieve. Read More
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Slack Has Seen 8-10 Acquisition Offers So Far
Speaking onstage at the Code conference, Stewart Butterfield, CEO of work collaboration startup Slack which launched two years ago, fielded a question about his company being a prime acquisition target at a time when valuations are high. Slack’s most recent funding valued it at $2.8 billion. Read More
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