Microsoft will no longer include Microsoft Teams in Microsoft 365 and Office 365 for its primary business customers in the European Economic Area and Switzerland as of Oct. 1, and… Read More
The news: Worknet, a startup helping enterprises integrate external communication into Slack and Microsoft Teams, emerged from stealth mode and announced $5 million in fresh cash. The leadership: The Redmond,… Read More
Salesforce said it would no longer divulge the individual revenue numbers of acquired companies including Slack and Tableau in its quarterly earnings filings and instead focus on percentage changes. Initial… Read More
Salesforce revenue rose 24% to $7.4 billion in quarterly results that investors were watching closely for clues about the direction of corporate technology spending amid concerns about the direction of… Read More
Seattle-based Tableau Software is no longer an independent publicly traded company, but it’s back under the watchful eyes of Wall Street for a different reason. Salesforce bought the data visualization… Read More
Seattle-based Tableau Software generated $394 million in revenue for Salesforce in its first fiscal quarter, up 38% from a year ago. That’s up significantly from Tableau revenue growth of 15%… Read More
Two years ago, while Matthew Lee was on a sabbatical between jobs, he reflected on his career highlights. “There are certain jobs that I had that I really loved, and… Read More
[Update, Monday afternoon: Slack is back after its morning outage. On its system status page, the company offers instructions for any users still experiencing problems. The cause hasn’t been identified,… Read More
Three weeks into his $27.7 billion honeymoon phase with Salesforce, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield’s real wedding could have an unwelcome guest of sorts, in the form of rival Microsoft Teams.… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Salesforce strikes a deal to acquire Slack for $27.7 billion; Amazon Web Services makes some surprising news at its annual re:Invent cloud conference; and a new… Read More
Slack could gain new inroads to enterprise customers, and access to additional sales and marketing horsepower, if reports of its impending acquisition by Salesforce come to fruition. The combination promises… Read More
New language in Slack’s quarterly regulatory filing warns investors that Microsoft could retaliate against the workplace collaboration company over its antitrust complaint against the tech giant. Slack’s latest 10-Q filing… Read More
Slack delivered a surprise this week with the filing of an antitrust complaint against Microsoft, alleging that the tech giant unfairly leverages Microsoft Office to give an edge to its… Read More
Updated below with Microsoft statement. Slack says it has filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft in Europe, alleging that the tech giant is illegally leveraging its dominant Office productivity suite… Read More
Slack is rolling out a new capability called “Slack Connect” that will let up to 20 companies and organizations connect securely and work together in shared channels, seeking to further… Read More
Slack and Amazon recently announced a significant partnership where Slack will power its voice and video infrastructure with Amazon Chime. This deal is significant for several reasons — on the… Read More
Slack will shift to Amazon Web Services’ Chime infrastructure for voice and video calls on its platform under an expanded partnership announced by the companies Thursday afternoon. In addition, Amazon… Read More
Microsoft is reporting another big jump in usage of its Teams communication and collaboration platform, reporting that it has surpassed 75 million daily active users. That’s up more than 70%… Read More
Google Meet, the tech giant’s video conferencing platform for businesses, was originally designed with presentations in mind — favoring slides and screen-sharing over a large grid view of everyone participating… Read More
Here’s what we’re talking about this week on the GeekWire Podcast. Bill Gates talks about how work will change after the coronavirus … and how school shouldn’t. A Seattle startup… Read More
Slack may be intended for productivity, but the communication and collaboration platform is increasingly a source of camaraderie and connection amid the sudden rise in remote work. Polly is looking… Read More
Microsoft will add new features for individuals and families to its Teams collaboration and communication app, seeking to expand further beyond the workplace and into the personal lives of its… Read More
Microsoft Teams is seeing massive user growth as remote work becomes the norm amid the COVID-19 outbreak. The chat, collaboration and video conferencing app saw its daily active user count… Read More
Microsoft Teams went down early Monday morning, gumming up the start of the week for millions of workers who rely on the tech giant’s chat and collaboration tool. Microsoft first… Read More
From Amazon to Zillow, big successes to surprising failures, it was an extraordinary year for technology and innovation emerging from and impacting Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. That’s our consensus… Read More
Federal regulators are looking into Slack’s stock market debut earlier this year as part of a broader investigation focused on recent tech IPOs, according to a new report. The Wall… Read More
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield is bracing for fast-growing rival Microsoft Teams to hit 100 million users as soon as a year from now, five times what it has today. But… Read More
Rivals Microsoft and Slack are sparring yet again, this time over new growth figures that show Teams pulling well ahead of its top competitor. Last week, Microsoft said Teams reached… Read More
Microsoft Teams now has more than 20 million daily active users, a 50 percent spike in four months that puts the tool well ahead of its chief rival Slack. Microsoft… Read More
Microsoft Teams is the top dog in the competitive collaboration tool market — at least, Satya Nadella certainly thinks so. The Microsoft CEO called Teams the “category leader” on the… Read More
