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Slack CEO Denise Dresser is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt this October
Slack CEO Denise Dresser is speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024.
TechCrunch Minute: Slack may be training its AI off of your messages — and opting out is harder than you’d think
Slack is under fire for its shady policies around using customer data to train its AI. According to Slack’s privacy principles, customer data like messages…
Slack is making it difficult for its customers if they want the company to stop using its data for model training.
David Sacks reveals Glue, the AI company he’s been teasing on his All In podcast
VC and podcaster David Sacks has revealed a new AI chat app called Glue that fixes “Slack channel fatigue,” he says.
As Microsoft unbundles Teams, it might not have the impact on Slack you think
One of the primary reasons that Slack joined forces with Salesforce in 2021 in a $28 billion deal was to give the communications company the clout to compete with Microsoft.…
Microsoft unbundles Office and Teams globally following years-long criticism
Microsoft has introduced new versions of Microsoft 365 and Office 365 subscription services that exclude its business collaboration chat offering Teams following scrutiny from the European Union regulator and complaints…
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Slack’s new CEO looks to bring stability after a turbulent period
Slack’s newest CEO is the third in less than a year, and she’s looking to bring stability to a division that has dealt with a lot of changes.
As an enterprise communications platform, Slack has become a de facto storage repository for institutional knowledge, but getting at that information has been challenging with conventional search tools. Today Slack…
Salesforce names Denise Dresser to succeed Lidiane Jones as CEO of Slack
As promised last week, Salesforce announced the replacement today for Slack CEO Lidiane Jones, who stepped down last week after 10 months on the job to become CEO at dating…
Sources confirm that Salesforce intends to announce new Slack CEO next week
It was a whirlwind kind of day at Salesforce and Slack as the company learned that Slack CEO Lidiane Jones would be leaving at the end of the year to…
Bumble announces Slack CEO Lidiane Jones will be its new chief exec
In a fast-moving news cycle, a personnel change wouldn’t seem to catch our attention, but this morning dating app Bumble announced a doozy: It’s replacing founder CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd…
Floworks is building an AI assistant to change how workers interact with software
About the time that Floworks co-founders Sudipta Biswas and Sarthak Shrivastava were starting at Y Combinator in the Winter 23 cohort, they had a chat with veteran investor Vinod Khosla,…
Former head of growth at Slack is building a growth-tracking platform for everyone
When Panobi co-founder Merci Grace began running growth at Slack in 2015, she helped grow the user base from 50,000 to more than 3 million in just a couple of…
Slack gets interface makeover with a more unified approach including dedicated DMs
Like most software, Slack developed over time adding a slew of new features like Huddles, Canvas and workflows. But like any piece of software that is over a decade old…
Pylon wants to make it easier to manage B2B conversations in Slack
As email becomes an increasingly clogged communication mechanism, businesses looking for more direct ways to communicate with their customers in a B2B context have been turning to Slack, Microsoft Teams,…
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After investing $28B in Slack, Salesforce bets on one of its own as new CEO
We sat down one on one with the new Slack CEO Lidiane Jones to learn more about what it’s like taking over for a charismatic founder-CEO.
Slack has evolved from a pure communications platform to one that enables companies to link directly to enterprise applications without having to resort to dreaded task switching. Today, at the…
Zoom is adding new features to compete with Slack, Calendly, Google and Microsoft
Weeks after laying off 1,300 people (or 15% of the staff), Zoom is introducing new features to compete with numerous companies including Slack, Calendly, Google, and Microsoft. These features include…
Microsoft rebuilt Teams from the ground up, promises 2x faster performance
Teams, Microsoft’s Slack rival, has always had a bit of a reputation for being slow and resource-hungry. Given that it always felt like Microsoft hurried the service’s launch to respond…
Feishu, ByteDance’s workplace collaboration app, surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue last year, Xie Xin, the chief executive of Feishu, told staff Thursday, according to a person familiar with…
Stashpad is a notepad for devs with a ‘DM to yourself’ interface
It’s hard to develop a personal note-taking habit. Many folks just resort to using a default app like Apple’s Notes app or sending something to themselves on Slack. It’s fine…
The stories behind Dropbox, Slack and now Twitter moderation showcase the massive complexity of building and running digital services.
Slack’s new CEO, Lidiane Jones, brings two decades of product experience to the job
We’ve heard a lot about Stewart Butterfield stepping down as Slack CEO, but less about his successor, Lidiane Jones.
As Butterfield exits stage left, it’s fair to wonder what’s happening at Salesforce
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield was the third Salesforce exec to step down in less than a week.
Confirmed: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield stepping down in January
Just days after Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor announced his resignation, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield announced that he will be stepping down in January. Business Insider first reported the news. TechCrunch…
Itay Dressler and Itzik Ben Bassat, who’ve held various software engineering and executive roles at startups together over the years, are accustomed to exchanging brief messages. Ben Bassat has ADHD,…
Daily Crunch: Revolut advises users to take caution after hacker breach triggers phishing campaign
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Slack adds persistent information layer to channels called Canvas
Slack has succeeded in large part in the enterprise by allowing people to communicate in a number of ways while integrating with many common enterprise applications. This lets you stay…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced this morning that “Community Chats” are coming to Messenger and Facebook Groups. The feature allows large Messenger groups to organize chats into categories, including audio…
DocuSign announces end-to-end contract lifecycle integration inside Slack
One of Slack’s main strengths has always been the ability to complete a set of tasks without having to move between multiple applications. DocuSign introduced electronic signature integration inside Slack at…
