Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Theo Miller covers social media with an emphasis on software design. We all know HipChat lost on UX because it’s not fun. In 2014, ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Saleforce recently captured attention with its eye-popping $27.7 billion acquisition of ...

Slack — the popular enterprise chat app that now has 3 million users, 930,000 of them paying — is adding in another key integration as it continues to get more embedded with its customers. Today the ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. IBM has picked Slack to power its chat communications companywide for its more ...

Slack, which is commonly used as a chat program within organizations, is now introducing a way to communicate with people from other organizations. The feature is called Slack Connect, and when ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a ...

Meta is adding a handful of features to the Messenger app that will be familiar to anyone who's used Slack, most notably with a new @everyone function. Starting today, typing @everyone in a chat in ...

Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he's always had a connection to the tech world. As an editor at large at CNET, he wrote about Apple, Microsoft, VR, video games and ...

The Slack rocketship won’t slow down. The business messaging startup has raised $200 million at a $3.8 billion post-money valuation, the company confirms to TechCrunch. The round was led by Thrive ...

Facebook Messenger just got two new features that might look a little familiar. And no, it's not because Snapchat had them first. Instead, the company is taking two features straight out of Slack's ...

Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. In a 12-month period that has seen Salesforce commit $27.7 billion to buy Slack, Microsoft Teams skyrocket to 145 ...

Facebook Messenger? Meta Messenger? Just Messenger? We don’t know what it’s supposed to be called these days. But we do know it just added a bunch of useful, Slack-like shortcuts that help you get ...