Slack hopes to replicate ad-hoc workplace chats for remote workers with a “lightweight, audio-first” communication tool, Slack Huddles, along with the addition of asynchronous video and voice messages ...

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 ...

Nadeem Sarwar is a reporter at Screen Rant focused on TV and film news, covering casting updates, new trailers, and premiere schedules. Imitation is flattery. A billion-dollar company aping a start-up ...

Against all odds, Slack has emerged as the darling of enterprise chat. The competitive deck appears nearly stacked against the startup, and it seems that every other month a new product launches from ...

Google is getting back into the team collaboration space to take on Slack, Microsoft Teams, Workplace by Facebook, and Cisco Spark with a new service called Hangouts Chat. Available in a private beta, ...

The changes are coming for G Suite users later this year The changes are coming for G Suite users later this year True to Google’s penchant for just announcing things right after they’ve leaked, the ...

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 ...

Like Slack, Google is allowing its users to build integrations on top of Hangouts Chat, and already has a small library of chat bots developed by third parties for use with the tool. The list includes ...

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, ...

Uber has 14,000 employees, many of which are engineers, so it's no surprise that the company that built one of the most ubiquitous ride sharing apps also built its own internal chat app after running ...